Commercial OS Jobs: Director of Product Marketing

Socialtext, who released on july the first Commercial Open Source wiki, is seeking an experienced product marketing professional.

Whatever you think about firms using MPL extensions (read SocialText proposal for Attribution provision if you want to know more, or start reading Ross Mayfield post about it), I suggest you all, both employers and employees, to read carefully profile’s requirements:

  • 10+ years product marketing experience with demonstrated success in leading product marketing activities for successful enterprise software companies;
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  • Experience working with Sales and Product Management to launch and market successful product lines;
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  • Experienced team leader – able to recruit, hire, and inspire high performance product marketing teams;
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  • Experience supporting an enterprise sales team with product collateral, demos, sales-oriented web site and internal positioning/strategy documents;
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  • Experience working with distributed teams;
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  • Holistic understanding of commercial open source software;
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  • Passion for social software and Enterprise 2.0 solutions;
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  • You blog;
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  • Proven success marketing the early stages of a new business or technology;
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  • Demonstrated focus on metrics, tracking program details, and ROI;
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  • Ability to balance strategic and tactical execution;
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  • Excellent written & verbal communication skills;
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  • Outstanding customer and partner engagement skills;
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  • Strong project management and organizational skills;
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  • Outstanding presentation skills to large and small audiences including customer executives and press/analysts;
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  • BA/BS degree (MBA or MS is highly desirable).
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4 Responses to “Commercial OS Jobs: Director of Product Marketing”


  1. 1 Savio Rodrigues
  2. 2 Roberto Galoppini

    Dear Savio, more than one thing doesn’t work within Wordpress, to be honest.. sorry about that.
    I’m happy you enjoyed the story, I’ll be writing soon about hiring open source developers, stay tuned..

  1. 1 rand($thoughts);
  2. 2 Want an open source job? Don’t forget established software vendors « rand($thoughts);

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Roberto Galoppini on Open Source Software
Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.