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Product Marketing Manager, Service Provider Solutions Spiceworks
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Who you are: Looking for a position that maximizes your product prowess? Eager to sink your teeth into the future of IT? Spiceworks just might have a place for you! We?re on the hunt for a talented and experienced Product Marketing Manager for Spiceworks? Service Provider Solutions. In this hybrid product marketing and management role you?ll be responsible for defining, designing and delivering innovative business and promotional capabilities for the more than 300,000 IT service providers in Spiceworks.Who we are: Spiceworks is all the rage among over 2.2 million IT pros who use our software to simplify ?everything IT? and connect with top tech vendors. As a true social business platform, our unique model combines a network management and help desk app with an online community. It?s a unique opportunity for top advertisers like Microsoft and Rackspace to connect and engage with the hard-to-reach IT audience. Growing by more than 2,000 users a day, it?s no wonder we?ve been called ?the fastest growing social business app in history!?
What you?ll do: We?re seeking a seasoned product management and marketing pro who has the technical experience and leadership chops to help inject a new level of innovation into products and solutions for the thousands of IT service providers (MSPs, VARs, technology solution providers, etc.) in Spiceworks. In addition to solidifying our ad product portfolio, you?ll run with the full set of product marketing and launch activities that go along with bringing exciting products to market at a fast-paced startup.
Responsibilities: What will I do?
Work closely with marketing, sales and dev to understand what advertising/media capabilities IT service providers want most, what?s most engaging for IT pros, and what?s technically feasible
Analyze and conceptualize a whole new set of groundbreaking IT service provider opportunities like completely new types of social business experiences, ad units or lead generation tools.
Craft a vision for compelling products, validating and spreading that vision inside and outside of Spiceworks
Work closely with dev to bring products to life and help make them awesome
Establish core messaging and positioning of Spiceworks? IT service provider offerings
Work with marcom, PR and demand gen to evangelize/sell products and drive qualified interest in them to Spiceworks
Stay aggressively on top of the competitive/industry landscape and keep sales, dev and exec teams in the loop
Drive regular interaction with sales and customers to fine-tune messaging, pricing and packaging and keep product plans in line with the changing needs of the IT solution provider market.
Qualifications: What does it take to do this job?
5 years? experience with a mix of both product management and marketing
Demonstrated experience building new products and bringing them to market ? experience with directories, listing services and marketplace models highly preferred
A high quotient for creativity that?ll drive you toward developing truly innovative and diverse advertising capabilities that customers will value like crazy
Product management and marketing experience with marketplace or listing/directory platforms geared to small businesses, independent professionals or other experts
Demonstrated understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities inherent in monetizing social media and software platforms
Proven ability to work successfully with management, internal teams and customers to make great results happen
Proven ability to inspire confidence and collaboration with sales, dev and exec teams
Bachelors degree in marketing or similar field required; MBA or other relevant graduate degree preferred
| Location: | 9005 Mountain Ridge Drive Suite 100 Austin, TX 78759 United States |
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THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED
Spiceworks
Investors: Austin Ventures, IVP-Institutional Venture Partners, Shasta VenturesAll Jobs: at Spiceworks
| Web Site: | www.spiceworks.com |
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| Headquarters: | 9005 Mountain Ridge Drive Suite 100 Austin, TX 78759 United States |
| Industry: | Software |
