Product Marketing Manager (Product Line Evangelist)

Cloud Product Marketing Manager

Austin, Texas

Full-time position

Reporting to CMO

Company Overview

Netgate is an open-source driven secure networking company that provides high-performance and affordable appliance and software-based firewall, VPN, and routing solutions for the home, office, and cloud. Our secure networking solutions, pfSense^® Plus and TNSR^® connect and protect homes, businesses in every vertical, K-12 and university educational institutions, local, state, federal government agencies and service providers all over the world. The company was formed in 2004, has over 90 employees residing on four continents, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Position Overview

Netgate is looking for an experienced product marketing professional to be a vital contributor in driving the company through its next stage of secure networking business growth.

In this high-visibility role, you will be an evangelist for our software and appliance products - charged with engaging, educating and influencing businesses, educational institutions, government agencies and service providers to strongly consider Netgate for their secure-networking solution needs.

Position Description

Our ideal candidate:

• Becomes the ‘face and voice’ of the company by building and engaging professionals, influencers, subject matter experts, and decision-makers across industry analysts
• Has relevant product marketing or product management experience, i.e., comfortable with secure networking products like routers, firewalls, and VPNs for premises and cloud deployments
• Can effectively communicate technical concepts through a variety of channels
• Has a proven track record for creating high-quality technical content that can further Netgate solution awareness and understanding
• Is able to work effectively across prospects, customers, marketing, sales and customer support for full product life cycle success
• Has excellent communication skills especially with respect to problem/solution identification, content creation and delivery
• Has a focus on detail. Our business is fast moving, broad and technical. Details really matter.
• Has a proactive, ‘lean forward’ mindset
• Has the ability to think broadly, but execute specifically

Position Responsibilities

• Be a Netgate subject matter expert, and the evangelist for Netgate through webinars, conference speeches, blog posts, podcasts, etc. that appeal to business, education, government and service provider audiences
• Own Netgate’s technical content strategy
• Create quality technical content (in concert with marketing campaign efforts): explainer videos, how-to videos, demo videos, product overview videos, webinars, white papers, case studies, success stories, solution briefs, etc.
• Develop sufficient technical knowledge about pfSense Plus and TNSR software solutions, their applications, and our integration into organizations’ secure networking ecosystems
• Engage with internal stakeholders, partners, and customers to thoroughly understand our target audience, their challenges, and our unique value proposition

Qualifications

• Extroverted personality that enjoys being the guide or starter of community conversations
• Experienced with marketing secure networking products for premises and cloud needs
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, comfortable on video
• Proven track record of creating high-quality product evangelism content
• Able to translate complex technical concepts and technologies into strategic business and customer-centric value propositions
• Self-motivated individual contributor and team player
• Proven organizing skills and capacity to manage multiple priorities and tasks simultaneously
• Enjoys a fast-paced environment and works well with deadlines

Work Location

• Greater Austin, Texas area

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