Director, Product Marketing

About NetApp

 

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Job Summary

As a Director of Product Marketing for the CloudOps portfolio at NetApp, you will utilize strong management and relationship building competencies to set goals, objectives and develop strategies for the Product Marketing team.  You will develop long-term strategies and shorter-term marketing plans to meet aggressive deadlines.  You must be extremely results driven, customer focused, technologically savvy, and skilled at building internal relationships and external partnerships. 
 

Job Requirements

Essential Functions: 

• Provide management, mentorship, and guidance to the Product Marketing team, within the function to drive all pertinent issues related to strategy and goal attainment.  
• Participate in strategic planning sessions with the peer managers in sales and with the business development team. 
• Communicate Corporate strategy to employees within your function. 
• Responsible for the overall development and communication of the CloudOps solution messaging and positioning.  
• Plan and direct activities including planning and implementing forecasts, marketing communications, relationship development, and customer satisfaction. 
• Establish short-term and long-term goals and performance metrics in line with corporate objectives. 
• Develop budgets for approval and assure adherence once budget is approved. 
• Review management plans with Executive Manager on a regular basis. 
• Select, develop, and evaluate personnel to ensure departmental goals are met. 
• Assume responsibility for result, including costs, methods and staffing. 

Requirements: 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including presentation skills. 
• Excellent relationship building and negotiating skills. 
• Experience in developing, managing, and executing marketing campaigns. 
• Experience marketing network storage and security solutions. 
• Ability to work collaboratively with functional peers across functions. 
• Strong understanding of storage technologies and competitive offerings in the marketplace.  
• Ability to convey information clearly and analysis as needed to help customer make buying decisions.  
• An excellent understanding how technology products and solutions solve business problems.  
• Demonstrated experience working with Marketing and Sales organizations. 
• Prior experience with developing budgets and controlling costs. 
• A demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees. 

Responsibility and Interaction: 

Responsibility:   

• The tasks this individual is responsible are critical to the organization’s future, have wide implications, and multiple outcomes.   
• This individual will apply overall expertise and or unique technical/industry knowledge in solving problems that are unique and extremely complex given time, budget and resource constraints.   
• Demonstrate leadership and vision in determining and driving strategy decisions, process changes, business initiatives, etc.  

Interaction:  

• This individual must work effectively with Staff to Executive levels employees within the function, across functions and globally, and outside of the organization. 
• This individual is a recognized as one of few experts in the field and exercises wide latitude in determining own objectives and approaches to critical assignments. 
• Is seen as a leader, or “guru” by others in the function and organization 

Education

• A minimum of 10+ years of experience is required. 
• A Bachelor Degree is required or equivalent experience. 
• A Graduate Degree is preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, extremely complex technical projects. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, di