Product Marketing Lead

Ocean Security • Boston, MA

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About The Position

Ocean is seeking its first Product Marketing Lead to define how the company presents itself in the market. This role involves working directly with founders and cross-functional teams to translate a differentiated product and a significant market opportunity into a well-understood and memorable brand. The company emphasizes speed, quality, and direct ownership, offering a unique chance to make a significant impact at an early-stage, fast-growing cybersecurity company focused on AI-driven email security.

Requirements

• Product marketing experience at a cybersecurity startup, including understanding the security market, buyer behavior, and marketing complex technical products.
• Exceptional content creation and writing skills, with the ability to independently produce compelling content across various formats.
• Experience owning positioning and messaging for technical products, understanding target audiences and communicating differentiation.
• Experience leading analyst briefings (Gartner, Forrester, IDC) independently.
• Exceptional communication skills, with a sharp instinct for compelling storytelling for US buyers, analysts, customers, and the security market.
• Deep technical curiosity, with a willingness to engage with engineers and understand product details to explain them simply and accurately.
• Strong technical range, comfortable translating complex technology into clear stories for diverse audiences.
• Experience operating as the entire product marketing function or a significant part of it, moving from strategy to execution independently.
• Proficiency as an AI super-user, actively experimenting with and integrating AI tools for research, problem-solving, content creation, and efficiency.
• Comfort appearing on camera and communicating publicly, explaining complex security concepts and technical stories to external audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Unusual curiosity and a drive to dig deep into technical concepts and new tools.
• A creator at heart, with an instinct to immediately think about storytelling for technical problems, product insights, or market shifts.
• Ability to comfortably move between deep technical discussions and high-level strategic communication for various stakeholders.
• Strong taste and high standards, with an openness to feedback and a willingness to change one's mind based on evidence.
• Enjoyment of the building process in an early-stage company, embracing ambiguity and the excitement of creating something new.

Responsibilities

• Own Ocean's story by developing and evolving market positioning, creating clear, differentiated, and compelling messaging adapted for various audiences and moments.
• Translate complex technology into engaging narratives and content by collaborating with product, engineering, sales, and customers to understand the product's value and communicate it effectively.
• Act as a content engine, creating high-quality thought leadership, technical storytelling, customer stories, and launch materials across various formats.
• Shape Ocean's market presence by building the company's voice and experimenting with new formats, channels, and ideas, focusing on AI search as a core theme.
• Partner with sales and customer-facing teams by providing them with necessary messaging, materials, narratives, and content to communicate value and create momentum.
• Lead major product and company moments by contributing to the story, execution, clarity, and coordination of key introductions to ensure they are noticed.
• Build the product marketing function by defining best practices and establishing a foundation for future growth as the first product marketer at Ocean.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed