Sr. Product Marketing Manager - IT Security

Leading IT infrastructure software provider is seeking a solution or product marketing professional with experience in security software to design and market solutions in the Identity & Security focus area.

Work with a cross-functional, highly motivated team, including representatives from product management, engineering, corporate and channel marketing, alliances and sales.

Key Responsibilities:

- Help create a marketing strategy for security management.
- Create content for software industry events, sales collateral and novell.com website
- Collaborate with the partner organization to create and execute campaigns
- Participate at industry events and act as product spokesperson
- Provide creative input to the marketing communications and Web marketing teams
- Work with public relations and reference program teams to secure customer references, articles, samples, and speaking engagements that evangelize the product
- Contribute to marketing requirements documents, strategic product planning, and annual planning process

Qualifications and Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree required. MBA from top school strongly preferred.
- Minimum of five (5) years experience in product marketing or solutions marketing
- Strong knowledge of security software marketing
- Previous experience working with the solution provider channel and selling through a two-tier distribution model strongly preferred.
- Thorough understanding and experience working with channel partners or Tier 1 ISV/IHV partners
- Previous experience in the high-tech industry and thorough understanding of enterprise software desired.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, including public-speaking skills.
- Strong organizational skills & ability to meet deadlines.
- Self-management skills and self-started attitude highly valued.
- Teamwork - the ability to work both within the product team and across other marketing teams