Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The role, in a nutshell:
This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager who will lead ongoing launches, growth initiatives, and supply chain security storytelling for Chainguard Repository. Chainguard is innovative at its core - the products we build are new and different - and articulating our value in a compelling and credible way is essential to our growth. This role requires strong communication, collaboration skills and some level of technical knowledge and comfortability with open source artifacts and supply chain security.
Chainguard Repository is a single, policy-managed experience for pulling artifacts that Chainguard either builds or distributes. It gives your organization one place to pull open source artifacts, configure security policies that govern how they are consumed, and monitor coverage and policy enforcement across your environment.
Key Repository capabilities include:
- A Chainguard-managed experience for pulling container images, libraries, OS packages, agent skills, CI/CD workflows, and virtual machine images
- A policy engine that enables flexible policy configurations for various artifact types
- A source code and maintainer behavior scanner
What you’ll do:
- Manage ongoing launches of new capabilities, features, and integrations for Chainguard Repository, ensuring successful cross-functional rollout across GTM.
- Develop and refine product positioning, messaging, presentations, and core content that articulate Chainguard Repository’s unique value.
- Drive growth initiatives with content and cross-functional plans that leverage Chainguard's malware and greyware scanning and maintainer-behavior analysis capabilities.
- Build consumable product and technical content across video, digital, and written formats.
- Collaborate with product security teams on malware and greyware analysis, translating findings into credible, differentiated narratives.
- Create enablement content and serve as a subject matter expert for sales and sales engineering teams, ensuring the field has the tools and knowledge to succeed; own competitive overviews and objection handling for your products.
- Collaborate with demand generation and corporate marketing teams to develop campaigns, create necessary content, and present at events.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering on product strategy, and contribute state-of-the-business and roadmap updates.
What we're looking for:
- 5+ years of product marketing experience in B2B technology, ideally with familiarity in open source software, enterprise security, and technical products.
- Ability to manage product launches and go-to-market strategies effectively.
- Comfort with technical content and the ability to build technical materials, plus the agility to turn breaking security events into clear, timely narratives.
- Proven success in cross-functional, highly collaborative roles.
- Ability to perform well in a dynamic, rapidly growing environment, balancing both strategic planning and hands-on execution.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex information in a clear and compelling manner.
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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