Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Portworx

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Pure Storage Acquired Portworx in October 2020, Creating the Industry's Most Complete Kubernetes Data Services Platform for Cloud Native Applications. This acquisition represents Pure’s largest to date and our deeper expansion into the fast-growing market for multi-cloud data services to support Kubernetes and containers.

Press Release - September 16, 2020

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As a Senior Technical Marketing Manager at Portworx, you will develop and execute technical marketing functions for Pure’s Cloud Native Business Unit. We are looking for an extremely technical and business savvy leader to deliver hands-on labs, write blogs and record demo videos, perform competitive intelligence/positioning, field/partner enablement and technical benchmarking in the cloud native ecosystem. A deep understanding of container/cloud native storage use cases and challenges is important for success in this role; as we help the world’s biggest brands and companies simplify and build a data platform for their modern applications.

This role reports into the Director of Technical Marketing for Portworx and has the primary responsibility for evangelizing the Portworx platform as part of Pure’s cloud native solutions. This individual would drive market awareness and adoption of the Portworx portfolio by developing technical and innovative content, as well as documenting real-world use cases and enabling the Portworx technical selling team of Cloud Native Architects. The ideal candidate for this role will demonstrate an understanding of the modern cloud native stack (Kubernetes, open-source data services, CSI storage plugins, etc.) and modern data protection, and be able to translate them into relatable, consumable content for customers as well as Pure’s sales teams. This is a highly cross-functional role where you will collaborate with other product marketing leads, product management, technical marketing, demand generation, sales, and corporate marketing to build and execute evangelism and competitive strategy for the entire Portworx portfolio. You will: 

• Be an evangelist in the cloud native events and space for the entire Portworx portfolio, which includes our solutions for data management, data protection, database-as-a-service and disaster recovery. 
• Channel the voice of the customer—understand the pain points, use cases, and aspirations of the target buyer and user personas. 
• Work closely with product management and technical marketing teams to translate the technical vision of the Portworx platform as new products/services are introduced through your experience writing blogs and recording demonstration videos.
• Contribute to the competitive content machine for the entire Portworx portfolio. Communicate key research findings to internal stakeholders, through presentations, key CI assets such as battlecards, objection handling guides, competitive positioning guides and sales play books.
• Work closely with the demand generation, events, and field marketing teams to ensure that technical collateral is strong and available for field and partner teams.
• Develop new and contribute to existing hands-on labs which demonstrate the value that features within the Portworx platform deliver to customers that s