Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager
Job Description
Pulumi is looking for an experienced Principal Technical Product Marketing Manager to articulate the value of Pulumi's products to the world. You will be a part of realizing a vision that empowers every developer to program the cloud.
In this role, you will help technical leaders, engineering managers, and software engineers understand how Pulumi's technologies transform cloud infrastructure automation, security, and management, while driving measurable outcomes for their businesses. You will be responsible for defining our positioning and messaging to developers and technical decision-makers, creating compelling content to help them understand the use cases and value propositions, and building the right marketing programs to increase awareness and adoption.
Expect to be challenged, learn, and collaborate with a phenomenal team of interesting people.
While Pulumi is headquartered in Seattle, WA., we are dedicated to being a remote-first company.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the short- and long-term strategy to grow awareness, shift perceptions, and drive adoption of Pulumi’s product portfolio across key audiences
- Collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and marketing teams to distill complex technical features into clear, compelling, and differentiated messaging tailored to developers and technical decision-makers
- Lead the development of value propositions, go-to-market strategies, marketing campaigns, and enablement programs to accelerate adoption and drive market leadership
- Develop a wide range of audience-specific content – blogs, videos, case studies, demos, presentations, landing pages, whitepapers, and more – to educate and engage Pulumi’s audiences
- Research industry trends, competitors, and customer needs to refine messaging and content strategies
- Enable our field sellers with the tools, training, messaging, and competitive differentiation they need to effectively position and sell Pulumi in the market
- Engage press and industry analysts to communicate Pulumi’s value, influence thought leadership, and position Pulumi as an innovator in the space
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant work experience in technology marketing, product marketing, engineering, or product management, ideally in developer tools, DevOps, or cloud technologies
- A strong understanding of modern software development practices, cloud infrastructure, and the needs of developers and engineering teams. A bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field, or equivalent professional experience is preferred
- Proven ability to translate technical concepts into language that resonates with diverse audiences, from developers to technical decision-makers
- Ability to easily transition from high-level strategic thinking to creative and detail-oriented execution
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively collaborating across diverse teams and stakeholders
- Proven ability to identify innovative ways to tell compelling stories and differentiate products in competitive markets
Compensation:
- Base Salary Hiring Range: $198,000 - $240,000
- All full time employee offers at Pulumi include base salary, bonus or variable, equity and benefits (details below).
Pulumi Benefits:
- Health: We provide comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance at no cost to U.S. employees, and comply with local health benefit requirements internationally.
- Time Off: We have an unlimited Personal Time Off (PTO) policy and require employees to take at least three weeks off annually, in addition to 13 U.S. holidays.
- 401K: We offer a 401(k) with an employer match for U.S. employees to support long-term financial security.
- Parental Leave: We provide 20 weeks of paid leave for the birthing parent or primary caregiver and 16 for the non-birthing parent or secondary caregiver.
- Remote-First: Our workforce is fully remote, spanning over 20 states and 12 countries. We encourage asynchronous collaboration and support remote work with an annual "work from anywhere" fund.
- Professional Development: Each employee receives an annual development budget, reinforcing our commitment to continuous learning.
- Equity: As a growing startup, all employees receive equity and are encouraged to be frugal, scrappy, and to act like owners.
- Additional Funds: We offer a monthly wellness fund for physical or mental well-being and a quarterly happiness fund for personal and team use.
About Pulumi:
Pulumi is reimagining how teams build cloud software, enabling developers and infrastructure experts to work better together through a unique combination of programming languages, tools, and systems innovation.
Our flagship infrastructure as code technology is open source and our SaaS product, Pulumi Cloud, provides platform teams, secrets management, and cloud management capabilities, and more. We have pioneered leveraging AI across all of these areas with our LLM-powered Pulumi Copilot to push the boundaries of what's possible. At Pulumi, we dream big, in the pursuit of helping our customers out-innovate and win.
Founded in 2017 by industry veterans with over five decades of combined experience building developer platforms, Pulumi now has a global community of more than 350,000 members and serves over 3,250 customers. Despite our rapid growth, we're still only getting started, and are early in our mission to democratize the cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance, we want to work with you to accelerate Pulumi's impact.
At Pulumi, we don't just accept difference, we celebrate, support, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our customers. Pulumi is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
