Menlo Park, Ca, CA, USA
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Reports To: VP Marketing
Schooner
Schooner Information Technologies is a well funded "early stage" startup
located in
access that provides significant improvement in scalability,
affordability, and increased performance on a substantial scale to the
customer. IDC sees the market opportunity for this technology to be in
excess of 5 billion dollars per annum. Our management team comes from
such firms as Pathscale, Sun, HP, and Clarity Software. Our firm will
have a substantial impact on the computer industry and we are looking
for highly intelligent, common sense, senior marketing professionals who
truly want to make a difference in the industry. Our breakthrough
technology, as well as our highly experienced management group offers
high caliber individuals the opportunity to move both their career and
technical expertise forward
Director, Product Marketing
We are looking for a talented and experienced senior marketing professional who has diverse experience in marketing to take on the role of Director of Product Marketing. If you like to work in an entrepreneurial environment where things happen fast and you see the direct impact of your contribution, if you like to start your own company some day and want to gain that first hand experience of helping to grow a company, and if you like to work on cutting edge technology when what you work on today becomes a new industry category later on, join us.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible to lead the effort to define Schooner's overall marketing plan and go to market strategy. Specifically
- Establish Schooner as a thought leader with innovative products which will enable customers to do "what they are unable to do today" and the business and operational values they will gain.
- Develop the content to tell the above story and deliver through a wide spectrum of vehicles to reach our target audience, such as web, direct marketing, PR and AR, training, customer community groups, and co-marketing with partners... Go beyond conventional marketing thinking, tactics and vocabularies to leverage new media (e.g. user generated content, viral, guerrilla marketing)
- Work with corporate marketing to develop plan to grow the Schooner brand, including "marketecture" and product naming methodology to show Schooner's long term vision and product positioning
- Explore new business models through pricing and packaging analysis to position Schooner for long term growth.
- Conduct marketing segmentation analysis to continue to refine understanding of market trends and customers needs
- Lead product launch process and deliverables.
Requirements:
- Prefer educational background from top tier schools, also extensive background working with middle sized software firms / software startups successfully
- Must exhibit clearly "out of the box" thinking in past positions, Highly skilled in both tactical and strategic skills critical
- 10+ years of of experience in product marketing and other broad range of marketing and business related roles in technology companies. Broad exposure and holistic understanding of different layers of the technology stack and applications highly desirable.
- Passion, savvy, fresh ideas, and track record for marketing high technology products.
- Solid product marketing skills when dealing with technical content for difference audiences (e.g. technical and non-technical, executive level and non-executive level)
- Strong leadership and influencing skills with the ability to make recommendations and decisions independently
- Self-starter with the ability to work in a very fast paced environment
- Ideal candidate would have BSCS, BSEE. MBA preferred.
- Candidate should have experience with both "startup" and mid-large sized firms
Schooner Information Technology offers a highly competitive salary as
well as top of the line benefits. We offer a lucrative "equity package"
in our firm as well. We are seeking highly skilled individuals who
truly want to be part of something special in the industry. Please send your information to herbnj@gmail.com
If you're interested in this opportunity, please send a current résumé to:
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