Product Marketing Manager, Japan

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Job Description

Rubrik is hiring a Product Marketing professional to support our go-to-market messaging and strategy.

This position will provide an experienced marketer the chance to work on a variety of high-level projects at one of the fastest-growing enterprise software startups in Silicon Valley. You will have the autonomy to build essential messaging strategies, experiment with new buyer profiles, and work across our organization in our rapid expansion into the enterprise. Above all, we expect you to earn a reputation as an expert on our product, our customers, and our market.

Responsibilities

• Design, enable, execute, and measure product launches and go-to-market plans.


• Develop marketing plans, working closely with demand generation, web/digital, and customer marketing to create an industry-leading customer experience and customer journey.


• With the help of colleagues in sales, alliances, technical marketing, and product organizations, you will create go-to-market messaging that highlights our feature strengths for different target buyers. You will be able to present that material to a variety of audiences, from IT directors to executives, and you will build sales-ready presentations for handoff to a growing sales force.


• Ability to think, design, and execute creative initiatives to strengthen brand awareness and a keen eye for detail.


• Identify metrics and drive regular communication on progress for the product marketing and marketing organization.


• Ability to effectively partner with cross-functional teams on projects to drive business results.


• You will develop a perspective on where we should go next. Combining primary research, secondary research, and your experience in enterprise software, you will recognize trends early and test novel messaging before the market catches on. In sessions with our product and engineering leaders, you will be able to serve as the voice of the customer.


• You will take a lead role in major product marketing initiatives. Whether working on new product launches or creating new short-form documents for field training, you will be able to take the point in delivering high-quality material. You are used to documenting your work and providing templates for more junior colleagues.

Qualifications

• Bilingual in Japanese and English


• BA or BS from a top-tier university. MBA preferred


• 5+ years in enterprise product marketing for high-tech companies that target IT organizations


• Candidates may substitute comparable cross-functional experience for education


• Experience creating professional messaging on technical topics, ideally relevant to enterprise software. You should be comfortable submitting a 2-3 page professional writing sample or a short PowerPoint deck as part of the interview process
  Specific examples working across geographies in a global or rapidly growing international organization


• Analytical with a creative mind and ability to juggle many projects concurrently


• Must be enthusiastic about developing plans, but just as happy to roll up your sleeves to execute


• Able to multi-task and work in dynamic environments, rapidly anticipating and adapting to shifting priorities

Nice-to-haves

• Any domain experience, whether data backup and recovery, data protection, database, or enterprise storage experience, will give you a leg up


• Direct customer-facing experience before Fortune 500 companies, either as a presenter or working with sales, customer success, and services teams


• Coaching and cross-functional management experience will be helpful given your senior position at a fast-growing company

About Rubrik

Rubrik is the leader in cloud data management, delivering a single platform to manage and protect data in the cloud, at the edge, and on-premises. Enterprises choose Rubrik to simplify backup and recovery, accelerate cloud adoption, enable automation at scale, and secure against cyberthreats. Rubrik has raised over $553 million in venture funding, most recently at a valuation of $3.3 billion. We’ve been recognized as a Forbes Cloud 100 Company two years in a row and as a LinkedIn Top 10 startup.

We aren’t shy about crafting products to solve problems no one has tackled or thought about before by defining the industry, instead of waiting for directions. Rubrik is the world's first platform to orchestrate data for hybrid cloud enterprises anytime, anywhere. We blend future-proof architecture with consumer-grade simplicity to pioneer a fresh approach to an old problem.