Manager of Marketing

The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, we’re helping to solve the hardest technology problems through mass collaboration at scale.

Today, the Linux Foundation has over 2,000 corporate members from over 41 countries, including every single one the Fortune 100. We have proudly created over $54B in shared technology value since inception. We’re growing at a phenomenal rate and we’re looking for experienced communications and marketing professionals to support our growing roster of open source projects. 

The Manager of Marketing will lead content and product marketing efforts on open-source projects, including OpenSearch, within Linux Foundation’s central marketing team by developing technical and strategic narratives that highlight the platform’s value to developers and enterprises. This role demands expertise in open-source technologies, enterprise search, and familiarity with the competitive landscape and related ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Content Development: Produce technical blogs, white papers, and case studies that demonstrate OpenSearch’s capabilities and differentiators.

2. Product Messaging: Craft compelling messaging for features such as full-text search, observability, and analytics to resonate with technical and enterprise users.

3. Market Research: Conduct in-depth analysis of competitors like Elasticsearch and other enterprise search solutions to refine positioning.

4. Collaboration: Partner with the performance marketing and community teams to amplify technical content across multiple channels.

5. Content Calendar Management: Maintain a strategic content calendar, ensuring alignment with project milestones and campaigns.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Increase technical content engagement rates 

• Drive marketing-qualified leads (MQLs) through targeted content efforts.

• Enhance OpenSearch’s share of voice in enterprise search 

• Achieve an increase in enterprise adoption through aligned messaging and campaigns.

• 7+ years of experience in content strategy or product marketing, with a focus on B2B technology or open-source ecosystems.

• Deep understanding of OpenSearch and its ecosystem, including features like full-text search, vector search, observability, and analytics.

• Familiarity with competing technologies and their market positioning.

• Proven technical writing skills, with the ability to create developer-focused and enterprise-targeted content.

• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate technical concepts into impactful marketing materials.

• Strong analytical and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt content to different audience personas.

• Demonstrated success in building multi-channel content strategies that drive measurable results.

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, computer science, or a related field 

Communications and marketing at the Linux Foundation helps expand awareness of incredible innovations that our community builds together. New and amazing stories of innovation, creativity and community come to us every week. Your expertise will help to tell these stories to a wide audience, drive engagement in developer communities, spread knowledge of cool new releases, generate media coverage for regional and national events, and promote training and certification on new technologies. 

Salary $100,000 - $123,000 USD.