Product Marketing Manager - Supermicro

Job Req ID: 22098

About Supermicro

Supermicro® is a Top Tier provider of advanced server, storage, and networking solutions for Data Center, Cloud Computing, Enterprise IT, Hadoop/ Big Data, Hyperscale, HPC and IoT/Embedded customers worldwide. We are the #5 fastest growing company among the Silicon Valley Top 50 technology firms. Our unprecedented global expansion has provided us with the opportunity to offer a large number of new positions to the technology community. We seek talented, passionate, and committed engineers, technologists, and business leaders to join us.

Job Summary

Supermicro's mission is to give people the power to innovate technology and bring the world closer together. We're building a different kind of company that is around people committed to working with passion. The ideal Product Marketing Manager will develop go-to-market strategies and ensure alignment with all key stakeholders within the company. This individual will also be responsible for building compelling messaging and partnering with our Product Management group to develop and execute comprehensive and integrated marketing campaign plans and deliver the appropriate tools and materials to support internal and external marketing executions. The role will span the spectrum of product marketing activities from positioning and differentiation, driving sales and channel enablement and working closely with key internal peers (sales teams, product management, technical experts and customers) to create strong technically rich product marketing programs and contents. The ideal candidate must understand the data center hardware and software market and have the technical depth to develop informed marketing deliverables.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Generate collateral on data center infrastructure, which includes competitive sales presentations, road shows, customer enablement, and pre-sales support
• Manage strategic partnerships and associated activities and funding, especially for GPUs and accelerators
• Define, articulate and communicate product messaging and Supermicro differentiation with a clear understanding of the target customer/audience
• Develop product collateral Supermicro server/storage infrastructure. Collateral will include data sheets, slide decks, web content, white papers, videos, blogs, etc.
• Deliver technical marketing content and resources that conveys value and ease of adoption for technical personas, such as developers and engineers. Examples include how-to content, getting started guide, and etc.
• Create training materials to fully leverage technical product marketing programs for and closely collaborate with FAE teams, field sales teams, and marketing.
• Lead product launches as the outbound marketing expert, especially for AI/ML systems or solutions
• Create ideas for all related marketing activities and drive them to completion while maintaining TTM advantage
• Provide cross functional feedbacks and plan executions among engineering, PM and corporate marketing groups
• Support product launch activities and assist with tradeshows and conferences
• Show your creative flair with infographics, PowerPoint, and visual representation of messages. Create the ‘aha’ moment for your audience

Qualifications

• 5 year's experience in Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, or Product Management experience in an IT infrastructure or related technology fields (cloud, virtualization/containerization, accelerators/GPUs, and etc.)
• Strong technical background, technical degree preferred, e.g., BSEE, Physics, BSCS from a 4 year college or university
• Experience or knowledge of Linux and enterprise operating systems, virtualization software, APIs, and web applications development/product management is a major plus.
• 5 years of experience in managing customer relationship and vendor management preferred
• Ability to balance workload, handle cross-department communication and make informed decisions to grow with the business
• Need to be self-motivated, should be able to make independent decisions and provide recommendations to engineering and product management
• Proven experience in developing compelling and differentiated product messaging
• Strong aptitude for distilling complex technical differentiators into simple, sticky stories
• Outstanding communicator and creative storyteller
• Collaborates with others to achieve results
• Creative and innovative thinking - willingness to take the risk, fail and learn, and iterate fast
• High energy, sense of urgency, and passion with a "can do" attitude

Salary Range

$110,000 - $147,000

EEO Statement

Supermicro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Supermicro to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or special disabled veteran, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status.