Sr Director, Product Marketing

Who We Are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

What You'll Do

You are a visionary leader who is passionate about understanding what drives people and how technology can solve their problems. You are an engineer at heart and have deep domain expertise with the SRE, cloud, infrastructure, and network engineering technologies, as well as strong relationships with industry analysts.

You are comfortable as the face of the company: speaking at conferences, on podcasts, and in webinars, and you are a thoughtful mentor who pushes your team to be their best and to deliver strong outcomes.

You are a natural storyteller who gets to the "why" behind technical innovations and are a strong collaborator with sales and product teams. You are high-empathy, low-ego, and enjoy being a part of a team. You are also a student and user of AI, incorporating it into nearly every aspect of product marketing.

• Lead Go-to-Market Strategy: Develop the go-to-market plan for key products and solutions, alongside other leaders. This includes strategizing and executing product launches and updates
• Own Positioning and Messaging: Be responsible for developing core messaging, positioning, and playbooks. You will oversee the creation of (and create) compelling content for a variety of channels for both practitioners and decision makers
• Shape Product Packaging & Pricing: Align with the Product team on how to best optimize packaging, pricing, and solutioning for enterprise and service provider customers
• Enable Sales, Partners, and Customer Success: Partner with the Enablement team to internal and external teams by developing demos, training, and content that are effective and easy to understand
• Engage Analysts and Customers: Develop strong relationships with network, infrastructure, and cloud experts; share and implement learnings across the GTM team

What You'll Bring

_Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!

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• 10+ years experience in product marketing
• 3+ years of people management experience - and you're someone who enjoys building, mentoring, and aligning teams
• Deeply knowledgeable and opinionated about network infrastructure technology
• Exceptional communication skills and able to explain complex concepts in simple ways
• An engineer in spirit (or practice)

What We Offer

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization, and in turn, to broaden and enhance your career. We’re very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The compensation range for this position is: $220,000 - $275,000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:

• Experience with the skill sets required for success
• Demonstrated competencies and potential
• A geographic market-based approach

In addition to a great career opportunity, Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees, which include:

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options

Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation, international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.Come work with us

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.

We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.

We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.

Come as you are!

You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.