Careers - Job Description

Position
Technical Solutions Marketing Manager

Location
San Francisco, CA

Department
Product Marketing

Summary
Pentaho is actively looking for an energetic and creative solutions oriented technical marketing manager to help revolutionize a ten billion dollar big data and business analytics market place. The ideal candidate has the experience, drive and discipline for this hands-on, multi-faceted and dynamic marketing position.

Pentaho’s proven end-to-end Business Analytics platform is changing the dynamics of the Business Intelligence market. As a recognized leader in open source business analytics and the fast growing big data analytics and data integration markets, Pentaho has strong revenue growth and market momentum. Pentaho is building the best team in the industry to deliver the future of analytics.

Pentaho is hiring a technical marketer who can build memorable, unique and valuable solution oriented marketing content to help shape the Pentaho story and take advantage of two “hot” emerging market shifts: towards big and diverse data and towards cloud-ready, embeddable analytics.

Position Summary:
The key objective of the position is to understand and articulate the business value Pentaho customers achieve with our suite of products through the development, design and implementation of solution demos and other technical solution-related content. These demos and other assets will be leveraged across Pentaho’s web properties, in search, and in other demand generation activities. These solutions must move beyond traditional features/benefits product marketing and drive a more customer-oriented approach.

As the technical solutions expert on the marketing team he/she must work in a very out-bound and cross-company oriented fashion. The successful candidate must be extremely comfortable working with sales, sales engineering, services, marketing, customers and partner teams. The candidate but must be technology savvy specifically in data integration and business analytics. Knowledge and expertise in business intelligence is desirable and the candidate will be trained on the Pentaho products.

Position Responsibilities: Technical Solutions Marketing Manager

• Work with product, partner and demand generation marketing teams to develop product and solution demonstrations and content to aggressively market Pentaho’s value and capabilities
• Promote created content across our websites and other outbound sites to showcase Pentaho solutions to our key markets
• Support product launches, new solution examples, competitive positioning, and demand generation programs with demos that highlight business value from Pentaho

• Support Pentaho’s marketing efforts to design and execute a mix of demand generation and promotional activities, including:
• Website strategy and online advertising
• Trade show and conferences
• Customer / prospect visits
• Online and offline seminar development

Position Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of related sales engineering and/or technical marketing/solution marketing experience, with a track record of developing impactful demos for external use
• Expertise and proven track record in successfully developing or marketing business analytics solutions a plus
• Bachelor’s degree in technology or related field; MBA is a plus
• Strong strategic thinking, creative problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to act very tactically
• Must love to create great content for external use
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams, meet business objectives and influence co-workers while fostering strong working relationships
• Excellent verbal, written, visual/presentation skills 
• Objectivity and openness to others' views to continually build a positive team spirit
• Hates to lose; loves to win

Company

Pentaho has established itself as the clear leader in commercial open source business intelligence and is growing its bookings, customer base, and team rapidly in a challenging economy. Because Pentaho's commercial open source model provides a lower-cost alternative for enterprise-class BI, Pentaho is getting attention from leading analyst firms like Gartner, and racking up public wins over traditional players like Business Objects (SAP), Cognos (IBM), Microstrategy, Hyperion (Oracle), QlikTech, Informatica and Microsoft. With an experienced team of BI and open source veterans, Pentaho is well-positioned for continued growth in the BI market, with presence in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America, supplemented by a Global Reseller network. Finally, Pentaho is a fast-moving, fun start-up where employees at all levels and in all departments can make a difference, develop new skills, and enjoy the pace and excitement of disrupting a major enterprise software market by delivering better value for customers.

We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, life insurance, and 401 (K) plan.

Please forward cover letter, resume and salary requirements to resumes@pentaho.com