Principal Technical Marketing - Enterprise Infrastructure and Thought Leadership

Principal Technical Marketing (Enterprise Infrastructure & Thought Leadership)

Spectra Logic a leader in data management and storage solutions is seeking a Principal Technical Marketing professional to develop original technical perspectives shape industry narratives and create authoritative content focused on enterprise data infrastructure.

This is a senior individual contributor role for a technically grounded professional who can independently interpret real-world data center architectures identify meaningful industry shifts and operator pain points and translate those insights into clear credible narratives and problem solving.

You will operate at the intersection of technology market dynamics and customer reality—helping define how Spectra Logic communicates its perspective on enterprise data storage challenges AI-era infrastructure cyber resilience exabyte-scale growth and long-term data preservation.

Success in this role means your perspectives are reflected both in published content and in how Spectra Logic engages with customers and the broader industry.

What You Will Be Doing

Develop and Own the Technical Point of View
Identify trends and technologies and develop clear defensible perspectives that shape Spectra Logic’s position on AI infrastructure power and cost constraints cyber resilience and data growth. Independently originate themes and narratives that influence how the company communicates with the market.

Create High-Impact Technical Content
Author whitepapers bylined articles executive commentary and technical blogs that deliver insight—not just explanation. Produce content that reflects original thinking not just synthesis.

Translate Architecture into Narrative
Work with engineering product and field teams to convert real-world architectures and customer challenges into content that is authoritative technically accurate and broadly understandable.

Drive Thought Leadership
Contribute to external visibility through articles speaking engagements and webinars that position Spectra Logic as a trusted authority and elevates our presence in the industry.

Enable Sales and Field Teams 

Develop narratives and frameworks that help sales engineers and partners communicate architectural value and differentiation.
Translate thought leadership into practical customer conversations.

What you bring
• Ability to independently form and articulate a technical point of view
• Strong writing skills with an emphasis on insight-driven narrative
• Practical understanding of how infrastructure is deployed and evaluated
• Ability to translate complex systems into clear explanations
• Ability to connect technical narrative to customer conversations and sales motions
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and shaping cohesive narratives

Requirements

• 10+ years in technical marketing solutions architecture sales engineering or product marketing within enterprise IT
• Strong understanding of enterprise data center infrastructure (storage compute networking data lifecycle)
• Experience working with product managers engineers IT professionals sales engineering and field sales team
• Evidence of original thinking technical depth and clarity
• Demonstrable body of work showing development of comparable technical content and thought leadership with the ability to present and discuss prior work in detail

Nice to Have
• Experience in data storage backup archive or hybrid/cloud infrastructure
• Familiarity with AI/ML HPC media workflows or large-scale data environments
• Experience with external publications webinars or speaking engagements
• Track record of published or externally visible thought leadership preferred
• Ability to operate with minimal direction in defining content themes and narratives

Compensation:   160 - 180K While this salary range is a good faith and reasonable estimate a candidate’s actual salary will be competitive based on a variety of factors including the candidate’s knowledge skills and experience within in the range

WHY SPECTRA?  

Located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder Colorado Spectra is an entrepreneurial private company with more than 40 years of proven success preserving protecting and defending the world’s data. Spectra offers a challenging flexible and creative work environment. Our culture is one that drives personal opportunity and advancement and rewards high performance while maintaining a high-quality work-life balance. We offer a casual hybrid work environment with ample opportunity to learn and grow within the company. Work out on your own or with our trainer at one of the on-campus gyms; grab lunch or snacks onsite or challenge the CEO to a game of pinball; and grow your career with peers who are second to none.   

SPECTRA IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER  

Spectra is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we never discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age color disability gender gender identity gender expression genetic information military or veteran status national origin race religion sex sexual orientation or any other characteristics protected by applicable law 

What We Do

Spectra Logic develops data storage and data management solutions that solve the problem of long-term digital preservation for organizations dealing with exponential data growth. Dedicated solely to storage innovation for 40 years Spectra Logic’s uncompromising product and customer focus is proven by the adoption of its solutions by leaders in multiple industries globally. Spectra enables affordable multi-decade data storage and access by creating new methods of managing information in all forms of storage—including archive backup cold storage private cloud and public cloud. To learn more visit www.SpectraLogic.com. Why Spectra? Spectra has been around for four decades. Being privately held and debt free for our entire existence has allowed us to create a casual culture where we all enjoy working hard for long term success. None of this quarterly treadmill “stuff” of our public and venture capital funded brethren. Come join us on our journey to preserve the world’s information forever.