Job Summary
Driving and reinforcing the organization's products value proposition, building supporting sales collateral, tools, and enablement, and presenting the product at customers and key industry events.
Role Overview
As a Principal Product Marketing Manager (PMM) at NetApp, you will be the voice of the customer, a strategic storyteller, and a go-to-market orchestrator. You will own messaging and positioning, drive launch excellence, and deliver insights that shape product strategy and accelerate adoption. This role blends technical depth, market intelligence, and marketing expertise to create compelling narratives and enable predictable, measurable outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Messaging & Positioning: Own the end-to-end messaging stack: platform ? solutions ? products ? buyer personas. Develop differentiated positioning and value propositions anchored in customer outcomes. Craft compelling messaging that translates technology into customer outcomes. Maintain messaging toolkits and ensure consistency across all channels.
Market Insights: Conduct TAM/SAM analysis, buyer research, and competitive benchmarking. Monitor market trends and provide actionable insights for roadmap and GTM strategy.
Go-to-Market Strategy: Lead product launches, develop enablement assets (playbooks, demos, talk tracks), and ensure predictable, measurable outcomes. Build integrated marketing and launch plans, including budget considerations.
Solutions Marketing: Build solution frameworks for high-value plays (AI pipelines, cyber resilience, hybrid cloud modernization) anchored in customer needs. Translate technical capabilities into business-value narratives and architectures.
Sales Enablement: Develop tailored content to empower sellers and partners. Understand direct and indirect routes-to-market and collaborate on partner activation strategies.
Analyst & Event Engagement: Support analyst briefings and submissions to secure leadership positioning. Drive messaging and demo strategy for events, conferences, and executive briefings.
Pricing & Packaging: Contribute to offer strategy, monetization models, and portfolio rationalization. Provide pricing insights and support TCO/TVO narratives.
Performance Measurement: Track launch success, pipeline impact, and adoption metrics to optimize GTM strategies. Measure effectiveness of messaging and content and optimize based on KPIs and feedback loops.
Job Requirements
12+ years in a product marketing role within an enterprise technology or cloud solutions company
Strong storytelling and messaging capabilities.
Deep understanding of buyer personas, customer journeys, and competitive landscapes.
Ability to bridge technical concepts with business value.
Identify the needs of users through a deep understanding of our target markets and how our product works within their lives
Ability to translate product features into benefits that stick with customers and attract prospects.
Lead the market analysis for the product suite to clearly communicate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Determine and track key performance indicators for the product marketing program activities, including metrics analysis and program effectiveness.
Assemble research data in a format that is relevant to and can be consumed by product management, marketing, and sales teams.
Based on market and competitive intelligence provide input into product strategy, road map and product feature set.
Promote products externally with press, analysts, customers, and partners and at conference and other events. Understand the competitive landscape.
Developing sales tools such as customer presentations, solution briefs and data sheets to enable sales teams to tell the product story effectively.
Education
Bachelor's degree required in Marketing, Business, Communications, Computer Science, or a related field.
Master's degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred, especially with a focus on technology, strategy, or go-to-market disciplines.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is $250,000-270,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
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