Director of Product Marketing

Director of Product Marketing

Location: SF, NYC, or US-Remote

If you’re excited about:

• Bringing deeply technical products to market
• Taking on extraordinarily new and hard problems
• Shaping the course of a fast-growing company and product category
• Working with people who value clarity, creativity, passion, initiative, and thoughtfulness

Then this is your opportunity to join a category-defining, fast-growing (in a healthy way), and well-funded startup to shape the course of an entire industry.

Pinecone is pioneering search and database technology that's revolutionizing how developers build search systems. Our managed vector database provides customers with easy-to-use capabilities that until now have only been in the hands of a few tech giants. The demand for vector databases is growing incredibly fast, and it shows in our user base. We have a large audience of ML engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and software architects who are eager to learn and build with our product.

As the Director of Product Marketing at Pinecone, you will have a significant impact on the way we market, sell, and build our product. You will report to the VP of Marketing and work closely with your product marketing team, the rest of the marketing team, Sales, and Product.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Experience leading a product marketing team for a deeply technical product.
• Clarity and conviction of how things like product launches, thought leadership, and sales enablement should be done.
• Exceptionally high standards for your and your team’s work.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced (startup) environment with a high degree of autonomy.
• Passion for marketing deeply technical products to a technical audience.
• Burning desire to make a meaningful impact on the growth of the company and the AI industry.
• Superb communication and interpersonal skills to successfully work with colleagues, customers, and partners.

If this sounds exciting, we want to hear from you!

Pinecone is a distributed team with clusters in New York, San Francisco, and Tel Aviv. You will be part of a world-class team from companies like Amazon, Google, Databricks, and Splunk. The company emerged from stealth in January 2021 with $10M in seed funding — led by the same legendary investor as Snowflake —  followed by $28M Series A funding announced in March 2022 and $100 Series B funding announced in April 2023.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute our product marketing strategy, to include: messaging and positioning, launch marketing, sales enablement, partner and customer marketing, competitive and market research, and thought leadership.
• Identify, own, and report on product-marketing KPIs to executive leadership.
• Develop and manage a world-class product marketing team.
• Develop close and collaborative partnerships with Sales and Product Management teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product marketing experience for developer-focused product
• 1+ years of management experience