Product Marketing Manager
Neon is an open-source company on a mission to create a cloud-native Postgres database as a service for every developer
We are expanding our Marketing Team and are seeking a talented and passionate Product Marketing Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our product marketing strategy.
Location: US-Based
Key Responsibilities
- Set the PLG Product Marketing Strategy: Know the competitive landscape and build Messaging and Positioning that connects with developers.
- Write: Everything from marketing copy, to case studies, to pitch decks.
- Work with Sales, Success teams to refine how we communicate Neon to customers through continuous iteration.
- Work with Product and Engineering teams for new launches, coordinating the GTM side of activity.
We are looking for someone who has
- 4+ years of relevant experience in conveying technical product marketing to a developer audience.
- Experience doing marketing in a company following a product-led growth GTM motion.
- Understanding of modern development workflows and the role databases play in them.
- Ability to collaborate with teams across Engineering and GTM.
- Proven public track record of shipping: blog posts, product launches, etc.
- Experience marketing a database is a plus.
About Neon
Neon is building open-source cloud-native PostgreSQL. Our architecture separates storage from compute, allowing for stateless and serverless Postgres. We’re a well funded startup with deep knowledge of Postgres internals and decades of experience building databases. We are a systems company; we work on low-level code with strict performance and correctness requirements.
Neon was created by a team of Postgres hackers and led by CEO Nikita Shamgunov (co-founder of SingleStore). Neon is built on open-source principles and is focused on giving back to the Postgres and developer communities.
Our Team
- We are a distributed team of 80 people working from 26 countries (concentrating around North America and Europe time zones)
- We are a team built on open sources cultural principles (transparency, contribution, accountability, proactivity)
- Team with decades of experience building databases and deep knowledge of Postgres internals. We are deeply technical
- We have experienced Postgres committers and hackers on the team (check Heikki, Anastasia, Arseny, Matthias profiles)
- We believe in the efficacy of collaborative open source
- We aim for a diversity of thoughts and backgrounds
- We are keen to be a fast-moving flat org and avoid hierarchical structures
Our Investors
Top-tier investors backed up Neon's vision:
- We raised $104 million in funding from Menlo Ventures, GGV, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund.
- Venture vehicles of Snowflake and Databricks invested in Neon.
- Our angels investors are prominent technologists, and ecosystem players. More than 20 awesome angels supported Neon, including Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, Mike Ovitz, Ajeet Singh, Guillermo Rauch, Søren Brammer Schmidt, and Wes McKinney.
- Our Board includes Quentin Clark, Glenn Solomon, Joe Morrissey, and Tim Tully.
Our Offer
- You have an opportunity to be an early employee in the fast-scaling ambitious team
- You can work 100% remote: we'll handle all formalities to arrange work from your home
- We pay top of the market in most parts of the world
- We grant equity (stock options) to all full-time hires
- We offer a competitive benefits package in line with all tech companies (top-notch equipment, unlimited vacations, paid parental leaves, and much more)
- We are distributed, yet make our bonds during regular offsites (the last one was in Barcelona)