Technical Product Marketing Manager
Overview
Automattic is hiring a Technical Product Marketing Manager to engage with technical personas and drive the message to technical buyers with a strong mix of technical acumen and business savvy.
Job Description
WordPress VIP is the world’s leading enterprise content management platform. We help the world's largest companies (including Meta, Salesforce, and Disney) create innovative digital experiences with WordPress. We’re looking for an experienced product marketing manager with a strong mix of technical acumen and business savvy. This is a strategic, high impact role, reporting directly to WordPress VIP’s Director of Product Marketing.
Responsibilities
- - Lead our effort to engage with the technical personas involved in a CMS purchase decision.
- - Develop a detailed understanding of our technical buyers, their challenges, objections, and architectures, and help our sales and marketing teams navigate the buying journey.
- - Own positioning across the competitive landscape, and drive understanding of our key competitive differentiators and messages that will separate us from the pack.
- - Enable our sales, business development, and solutions engineering teams to more effectively win technical evaluations.
- - Produce compelling content that communicates our unique capabilities. You will drive our message to technical buyers, and build content to win mindshare and drive awareness with this key audience.
- - Launch new products and features to target prospects, channel partners, and the existing WordPress enterprise customer base.
- - Be a strategic advisor across Product, Engineering, and Sales on roadmap priorities and product strategy.
Required Skills
- - Have at minimum 3+ years of experience launching successful GTM for B2B products and services.
- - At least 1 year of experience working in marketing to technical buyers, developer marketing, or related fields.
- - Have a strong technical understanding of CMS systems, and experience working with WordPress, PHP, or related technologies. Strong plus if you''ve developed your own plugins or themes.
- - Strong communication skills, capable of switching between business discussions and communication with technical staff.
- - Have experience working closely with enterprise sales teams on messaging, content, and playbooks.
- - Have worked in highly cross-functional teams, and have demonstrated accomplishments which showcase your ability to partner with different teams across the company.
- - Have strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
Benefits
- - Fully-remote company
- - Open vacation policy
- - Competitive salary worldwide
- - Inclusive work environment
- - DEI initiatives and Employee Resource Groups
About the company
We are the people behind WordPress.com, Woo, Jetpack, WordPress VIP, Simplenote, Longreads, The Atavist, WPScan, Akismet, Gravatar, Crowdsignal, Cloudup, Tumblr, Day One, Pocket Casts, Newspack, Beeper, and more. We believe in making the web a better place.