Technical Product Marketing Manager – Tigera, Inc – Vancouver, BC Full Time

Tigera is the industry leader in Kubernetes security and observability, and is also the inventor and maintainer of open-source Calico. We help organizations of all sizes in various industries to secure, observe, and troubleshoot cloud-native applications in Kubernetes environments. Our newest offering, Calico Cloud, is a next-generation, Kubernetes-native cloud service that extends the declarative nature of Kubernetes to specify “security and observability as code,” which ensures consistent enforcement of security policies and compliance, and provides observability and troubleshooting across multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid deployments.

Our software powers over a million Kubernetes nodes across 166 countries, and all of the major public cloud providers use it for their own managed Kubernetes services. Tigera’s solutions are used by some of the world’s leading companies, including HanseMerkur, Merck, Mindbody, RealPage, L3Harris, Discover, AT&T, and ServiceNow.

As our team grows, we are looking for colleagues who not only share our passion for this work and growing our company, but who will also strengthen our company values and help ensure that Tigera remains a great place to work. At our core, our focus is on our customers, who are the heroes of our story; on aiming high and staying nimble in how we get there; on continuous learning to drive our success; and on respecting, collaborating, and supporting each other on a daily basis.

If you are looking to help make a substantial impact, and our values and products align with your vision of your career growth, we want to hear from you!

About Your Role

As a Technical Product Marketing Manager for Tigera, you will help plan, execute, and communicate the technical value proposition of Calico products. In this role, you will build technical narrative and content to communicate Calico products’ capabilities and benefits. You will reinforce this with product collateral, explainer content, technical blogs, demos, and provide feedback to the product team to build a product-led growth path. The role involves ownership and project management of technical product marketing initiatives and close collaboration with others in product marketing, developer relations, sales, sales engineering, product management, and engineering.

The position is an excellent opportunity at a growing cyber-security startup, and may be based out of either our San Francisco; San Jose; Vancouver B.C.; or Cork, Ireland, offices. Strong experience in technical product marketing or sales engineering within enterprise software is critical.

You Will

Product positioning: You will connect Kubernetes security and observability trends with Calico products to build technical product positioning and messages for critical use cases

Product evangelism: You will evangelize and demonstrate the value of Calico products to internal and external audiences, such as solution architects, prospects, analysts, and customers—through demos, blogs, whitepapers, “how-to” content, webinars, events, and tradeshows

Product launches: You will be a critical part of product launches to build technical product content (demos and videos), and where necessary, develop messaging, pitch Tigera’s technology to analysts and press, develop product collateral and sales tools, and support the launch plan

Product Led Growth: You will design and deliver technical content to support the online buyer journey through product messaging, third-party validation, explainer videos, demos, and tutorials

Competitive analysis: You will stay on top of a very dynamic and fast-changing cloud-native Kubernetes landscape. You will understand competitor’s offerings, educate the rest of the organization, and refine our positioning, messaging, and sales tools

Sales tools: You will build technical product presentations, whitepapers, best practices technical guides, product videos, technical briefs, and other tools to enable sales and outbound marketing teams to communicate Calico’s story effectively

Partnerships: You will support partnership-related technical product marketing activities

You Have

Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience

5+ years of experience in technical product marketing, product management, or solutions engineering in enterprise software

2+ years of DevOps/security/networking industry and/or practitioner (SRE, developer, software engineering, platform engineering, CloudSecOps) experience—preferably with hands-on experience using IT technologies

Experience with Rancher, VMWare Tanzu, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure (certification is preferred)

Strong preference for applicants with experience handling and supporting cloud infrastructure, containers/Kubernetes, serverless functions, microservices, and security

A passion for developing persuasive content and a knack for using new software tools—from video screen-capture and editing to collaboration software and more

Passionate about ground-breaking technology, with strong written and verbal communication skills

Self-starter who truly enjoys working in a fast-paced, innovative software company

Why Join Us

With offices in San Francisco, San Jose, Vancouver (Canada), Cork (Ireland), and London (England), we have a thriving team of diverse individuals from all over the world. We believe in a collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect for, and commitment from, every employee. We also offer a competitive compensation package along with full health, vision, and dental benefits. These benefits, coupled with an amazing team of individuals who believe in our mission and value openness, collaboration, and teamwork, make Tigera an awesome place to work.