Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a VP Product Marketing in Video Tech

Description

Bitmovin provides API based software that powers the world's largest OTT online video providers with video developer tools, built by industry experts.

We’re looking for a strategic and senior product marketer that can lead the GTM strategy and drive the growth of Bitmovin. You, and your team,  will serve as the voice of developers, and will form a rich understanding of this audience to inform our product roadmap and drive our go-to-market strategy alongside our sales and marketing partners.  You will oversee product marketing efforts for the media & entertainment and New Media (eLearning, social media, eFitness, eCommerce) verticals.  

You’ll be part of a diverse and inclusive team that is data-driven and will drive growth through field sales and partner enablement, direct marketing campaigns, content marketing, and AR/PR engagements.

As our VP Product Marketing, you will:

• Create the product marketing strategy and mission - and oversee execution of, for the Media & Entertainment and New Media verticals 
• Working with our technical partners on co-marketing efforts, enablement of our technical partners and forming strategic alliances within their organisations 
• Creating a best in class developer experience; developers are the users of our software and are at the centre of everything we do.  You will ensure the authenticity, tone of voice and technical depth of knowledge  of our comms and content (including documentation, tutorials, SDKs). 
• Overall responsibility for the developer community 
• Build end to end GTM strategy to drive worldwide growth for Bitmovin including field sales and partner strategy, product, and pricing strategy to achieve growth
• Input to the marketing strategy to drive awareness, consideration, and sales pipeline
• Use customer, partner and competitive research to influence product strategy and drive effective messaging for developers and decision makers and be the subject matter expert for Bitmovin products
• Deliver data-driven insights analyzing product telemetry, website traffic, pipeline, and revenue data to uncover insights and strategy for growth.
• Conduct opportunity assessment and execute on a developer engagement strategy to drive growth 
• Deliver field sales and partner enablement materials such as pitch decks, compete battlecards, solution sheets, demos, and workshops and drive pipeline through integrated campaigns 
• Educate sales, product management, marketing teams and the partner channel about competitive landscape and competitor offering
• Drive awareness, trust and consideration by building compelling content such as customer stories, analyst reports, whitepapers, blogs, and videos
• Educate the market about Bitmovin’s core value offerings and present to customers and partners at Bitmovin events, webinars, and executive briefings
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to influence product pricing and influence product roadmap to deliver on growth objectives
• Help to build the AR/PR narrative and engage with analysts and PR teams for product briefings
• Own cross-department projects and corporate objectives 

It would be great if you are:

• A fast study of new technologies and have a strong understanding of how things work under the hood. You’re able to understand and influence technical decisions—product managers have relied on your expertise to shape their roadmaps and architectural decisions
• Customer-centric. You have deep empathy for users and seek to understand their needs and translate those into opportunities for Bitmovin to better serve them
• Data-oriented. You like working with data and insights and pair that with your passion for users to generate balanced and thoughtful points of view for how to take our products to market
• Ambitious. You are eager to make an impact at Bitmovin. You thrive in a fast-moving, dynamic, hyper-growth environment and are able to operate fluidly between the 30,000-foot strategy level and the micro-detail to get things right
• A tech storyteller. You have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and you can adapt the stories you tell to engage the most discerning developer. You can explain technical concepts fluently to a technical audience 

It would be amazing if you have:

• Global leadership experience in the areas of product marketing, product management or technical marketing for software products and cloud technologies/services
• Experience of working within a highly technical SaaS organisation products 
• Knowledge of the online video streaming market, its players, and technology is a plus 
• Strong collaboration skills to lead and influence a diverse team of stakeholders across field sales, customer success, product management and marketing
• Experience marketing highly technical products
• Executive presence, strong written communication, and presentation skills
• Experience having worked as a developer, data scientist, or product manager

Bitmovin’s Worldwide Benefits

• Working with an innovative, fast-growing and international team with low hierarchy
• Opportunity to make an impact on the multimedia industry, with target markets EU, US and APAC
• Competitive salary
• Pension
• Flexible working hours
• Home Office bonus
• Investment in growth and education
• Subscription to one of our customer’s streaming services 
• No routines, but new challenging projects with global impact
• Regular and fun company events and team activities (hackathons, summer party, …)
• Free choice of hardware
• Company holidays
• Volunteering Time Off 
• Seasonal gift package (swag)
• The opportunity to work for an exciting start-up, building innovative video solutions

We also have a range of country specific benefits too! 

About Bitmovin

Bitmovin, a YCombinator company,  is a fast-growing privately owned technology leader, located in San Francisco, CA and Klagenfurt, Austria.

The company was founded by the co-creators of international media standards like MPEG-DASH, which is used today by Netflix, Youtube, and others. Bitmovin is the technology leader in online video technologies such as cloud-based encoding, adaptive streaming players, 360°/VR streaming and performance analytics. Bitmovin is backed by top investors such as Atomico as well as industry leaders like the former VP Engineering of Netflix, former CTO of Cisco, founder of Unity3D, and many others. Bitmovin’s customers include the top media and technology companies worldwide, including Ooyala, RTL, Pro7Sat1, Bouygues Telecom, Cloudflare, Technicolor, Televisa, Zattoo, and many others.

Working at Bitmovin is fast-paced, fun and challenging with colleagues and customers worldwide.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Bitmovin we sincerely believe in the value that true diversity brings to a company. We diligently ensure our business, our people, our language and our actions do not discriminate against differences in race, religion, colour, origin, gender, sexual orientation, education, age, marital status, veteran status, disability and neurodiversity. Diversity is a part of our company character, thus we strive for the inclusion of diverse thought leadership to enhance the capability and uniqueness of our company proposition and culture. We launched our DEI group, the Tiger Team, to enhance our Diversity, Equality & Inclusivity agenda; bringing individuality to the forefront of our culture.

Empower your future and join us now!

STARTING TIME: Immediately

Please note, in an effort to secure the best talent, we are very open to a range of experience and salary expectations.

Bitmovin does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. The submission of referrals or resumes by anyone other than a candidate directly to Bitmovin will be deemed gratuitous, and the company will not be obligated or bound in any way to pay any fee if the candidate is hired.