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;
. - Experience working with Sales and Product Management to launch and market successful product lines;
. - Experienced team leader – able to recruit, hire, and inspire high performance product marketing teams;
. - Experience supporting an enterprise sales team with product collateral, demos, sales-oriented web site and internal positioning/strategy documents;
. - Experience working with distributed teams;
. - Holistic understanding of commercial open source software;
. - Passion for social software and Enterprise 2.0 solutions;
. - You blog;
. - Proven success marketing the early stages of a new business or technology;
. - Demonstrated focus on metrics, tracking program details, and ROI;
. - Ability to balance strategic and tactical execution;
. - Excellent written & verbal communication skills;
. - Outstanding customer and partner engagement skills;
. - Strong project management and organizational skills;
. - Outstanding presentation skills to large and small audiences including customer executives and press/analysts;
. - BA/BS degree (MBA or MS is highly desirable).
Roberto Galoppini, and 
Savio Rodrigues 3:25 pm on January 16, 2007 Permalink
Hmm…the trackback doesn’t seem to be working Roberto.
I referenced this story in a post on my blog and wanted to give you credit for pointing out this job opportunity.
No, I’m not out looking for work…but I do miss work 😉
Roberto Galoppini 7:27 pm on January 16, 2007 Permalink
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..
rand($thoughts); 4:14 pm on March 6, 2007 Permalink
If I Wanted a Job Also…
Matt Asay has some good advice for folks asking him for career advice: “Work for an open source company.”
I’d wholeheartedly agree. I’d like to add “or within the open source group of a traditional software company”…
Want an open source job? Don’t forget established software vendors « rand($thoughts); 6:21 pm on March 25, 2009 Permalink
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