Director, Cloud Virtualization Product Marketing (Renton, WA)

Role Definition

We are looking for a uniquely talented marketer with a proven track record of increasing responsibility to join our team and lead worldwide marketing overall for the entire Parallels’ virtualization product line to the Cloud and Services Provider audience. This group of products represents a large portion of Parallels’ overall company revenue and includes Parallels Virtuozzo Containers and Parallels Server Bare Metal. This exciting role offers significant room for future growth and reports to the Vice President of Cloud Service Provider Marketing.

The responsibility for this important position is to lead and execute all marketing functions across North America, Europe, and Asia for the Parallels virtualization product line to Service Providers:

• Lead the growth strategy for the product line worldwide


• Drive industry thought leadership for virtualized cloud offerings for cloud services providers


• Drive the overall marketing plan, budget and execution


• Manage product launches in close partnership with engineering and other teams


• Create high quality product positioning and messaging including datasheets, new version documents, PPTs, case studies, product demos and more


• Own the virtualization content on www.parallels.com for cloud service providers as well as inclusion on 3^rd party websites


• Lead external communication through public speaking at events/seminars and customer/partner email announcements


• Partner closely with sales teams and arm them with training and tools


• Drive business strategy and business management including pricing, support, and lifecycle policy


• Ensure strong competitive marketing including comparisons, positioning, and evidence


• Contribute to active PR, analyst relations, events, advertising for the business unit

Required Skills and Talents

• Four-year college degree (computer science or engineering major preferred but not required)


• Graduate degree from a highly selective school (MBA, computer science or engineering preferred but not required) or equivalent work experience


• Minimum 6 years of progressive experience in product management or marketing or equivalent work experience at a successful software or high tech company or cloud services / hosting provider


• Proven strength and excellence in multiple core marketing functions


• High levels of understanding and respect for other company functions and ability to work well with them as a team (especially sales and engineering)


• Strong intellectual horsepower, interpersonal effectiveness, positive attitude, strong work ethic, high level of flexibility, able to work well with others, excellent writing skills, high quality standards, able to be hands on or manage through others


• Passion for software and ability to understand technical concepts quickly


• Ability to thrive in a challenging, demanding and rapidly changing environment


• Potential to personally scale up fast as the business grows

Thanks for considering Parallels, one of the world’s fastest growing software companies!