Director Product Marketing

Director of Product Marketing

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 AI company to shape the course of an entire industry.

Pinecone is a pioneer in AI technology. Its vector database already revolutionized the way developers build AI applications.

As the Director of Product Marketing at Pinecone, you will significantly impact the way we market, sell, and build our product. You will report to the VP of Marketing, manage a team of product marketers, and work closely with the rest of the go-to-market and product teams.

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• Experience leading a product marketing team for a deeply technical product.

• 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, including:

  • Product messaging and positioning

  • Use-case marketing

  • Launch marketing

  • Sales enablement

  • Competitive and market research

• 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

Perks & Benefits:

Comprehensive health coverage including Medical, Dental, Vision

Free mental health therapy sessions; free One Medical, Tela-doc, and Health Advocate subscriptions

Cost-savings on gynecology, fertility, and family-building care

Equity award

401(k)

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Annual Department Retreat

WFH Equipment Stipend

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications in a job description. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications listed in this posting. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

Compensation