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Lead and evolve marketing strategy for a cybersecurity SaaS company—own demand generation, product marketing, brand, communications, channel and website. Drive GTM for enterprise and government markets, optimize funnel and conversions using analytics and AI, define KPIs, collaborate with Sales/SDR/Product/Channels, and measure ROI to grow pipeline and revenue.

Review and evaluate AI-generated responses, annotate and validate text/conversations, identify linguistic and contextual issues, and ensure annotations meet quality and linguistic guidelines to improve LLM performance.

Drive full-cycle net-new enterprise sales (3,000+ employee accounts) for an AI-enabled digital adoption platform. Close $100K–$300K ACV deals, build and manage a growing book for expansion, navigate complex stakeholders (security, legal, procurement), convert PLG usage into commercial agreements, and partner cross-functionally to ensure onboarding and account health.

Lead demand and inventory planning across e-commerce, marketplaces, wholesale, and retail. Build rolling forecasts, run monthly S&OP, prioritize constrained inventory allocations, own open-to-buy and inventory investment, design replenishment automation, manage supplier reorder decisions, and develop planning systems, dashboards, and standards. Manage one planner and grow the planning function while working cross-functionally with Merchandising, Sales, Retail, Operations, Production, and Finance.

Lead pre-sales and post-sales technical engagements to help customers adopt Aiven's managed open-source services. Conduct proofs-of-concept, ensure customer stability and enablement, support sales processes, create technical content (blogs, webinars, talks), and travel up to 20% to build and maintain customer relationships.

Provide post-sales technical support and troubleshooting for Fortanix platform; deploy, implement, upgrade, and optimize solutions; reproduce and qualify issues; perform root cause analysis; publish knowledge base content; collaborate with Development, Sales, and QA; and provide 24x7 on-call support as needed.

Lead technical direction with the CTO, architect and build high-scale distributed systems, mentor engineers, ship product roadmap, manage cloud infrastructure and orchestration, enforce CI/CD, testing and fault-tolerance, and collaborate with product and business teams while leveraging AI/ML frameworks.

Manage client invoice processing, monthly retainers, account reconciliations, and collections. Post AR entries, apply payments, update customer records, prepare accruals and statements, and support accounting reporting and ad-hoc projects.

Create and iterate branded paid social static and motion assets that drive growth. Own concept-to-production pipeline, use data and channel insights to inform creative, build scalable workflows, and employ AI tools responsibly. Collaborate with performance marketing and help mentor future contributors.

Lead end-to-end product design for client-facing squads: discovery, research, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, design systems, and post-launch iteration. Partner with clients, product, and engineering to ensure technically feasible, high-fidelity execution and present design rationale to stakeholders while contributing to internal design standards and critique culture.