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Salary: USD 310,000 - 310,000 / annual
Astronomer is seeking a Vice President of Product Marketing to lead how the world understands, chooses, and adopts Astronomer's products. The company is the commercial home of Apache Airflow and offers Astro, a unified DataOps platform trusted by over 900 enterprises including Datadog, American Express, Expedia, and Adobe.
In this role, you will report to the SVP of Marketing and own the complete product marketing function for a platform at the center of the AI and data orchestration era. You'll define positioning, messaging, and category strategy across Astro, Astro Private Cloud, and agentic orchestration and AI capabilities. You'll lead end-to-end product launches in lockstep with Product, Engineering, and Sales teams, turning technical complexity into clear, differentiated narratives for data engineers, platform teams, data/AI leaders, and executives.
Key responsibilities include building and leading a high-performing product marketing organization; deeply understanding buyers and users across multiple personas; driving competitive strategy and win/loss programs; equipping Sales and Customer Success with messaging, battlecards, and training; partnering with Demand Generation, Content, Events, and Community to drive pipeline; and bringing product marketing's voice into roadmap, pricing, and packaging decisions. You'll also leverage AI tools to accelerate team output and quality.
You'll work closely with Product, Engineering, Sales, Demand Generation, and Customer Success leaders, and will have the credibility to influence the CEO, CPO, and CRO while representing the company with customers, analysts, and partners.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of B2B product marketing experience, including 5+ years leading product marketing teams
- Track record of defining positioning and category strategy for enterprise software, data, or developer-focused platforms, with demonstrated impact on pipeline, win rates, and revenue
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms and how data and AI workloads are built, run, and monitored in production
- Experience leading major product launches and go-to-market motions across Product, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
- Proven ability to build, develop, and retain high-performing teams with strong hiring and craft standards
- Executive presence and storytelling skill with credibility to influence C-suite and represent company externally
- Data-driven approach to strategy using customer insight, competitive intelligence, and win/loss data
- Experience enabling global field organizations with messaging, sales tools, and training
- Strategic thinking paired with bias toward action and comfort with ambiguity in fast-growing environments
- Collaborative, low-ego style fitting a no-handoffs culture
BONUS:
- Experience marketing to technical audiences (developer tools, data, infrastructure)
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow or adjacent tools
- Background in open source, developer community, or data orchestration/workflow tooling
- Experience scaling product marketing through rapid growth
About Astronomer
AI / Data / Infrastructure — data orchestration platform and commercial home of Apache Airflow.
