Senior Director Marketing, Strategic Messaging

Senior Director Marketing, Strategic Messaging

Remote - US

NUTANIX

Hungry, Honest, Humble, with Heart

The Opportunity

As the Senior Director, Strategic Messaging at Nutanix, you will play a crucial role in shaping our narrative for various stakeholders. Your visionary storytelling skills and technical expertise will be utilized to lead our strategic messaging efforts. What makes this role truly exciting is that it is newly created, allowing you to define its scope and impact. Plus, you'll report directly to our CMO. Join us in inspiring and collaborating with brand, demand gen, and product teams.

Apply now to be a part of our mission at Nutanix!

Marketing at Nutanix

The Strategic Messaging team sits in the office of the CMO and plays a pivotal role in shaping our narrative for diverse stakeholders, including customers, partners, analysts, and our internal teams. We have compelling stories to share - from knowledge-based peer-to-peer sharing within our passionate tech community to how we are forging the Hybrid Multi-cloud category.

Sound like you? Read on.

Your Role

Core Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for formulating content and storytelling strategies that align with our business objectives and elevate our brand and strategic narrative.
• You will support high impact launches and significant company milestones, including product launches, thought leadership initiatives, board presentations, corporate events, and category building.
• You will develop and oversee the editorial calendar, conducting regular content audits to ensure that our content resonates with our target audience and drives desired business outcomes.
• Working closely with product teams, you will develop and publish positioning and messaging documents to align cross-functional marketing teams to our core strategic narrative.
• You will collaborate with the demand generation team to ensure that content development and prioritization align with our marketing strategy and effectively engage customers throughout their buying journey.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• As a recognized people leader, you will integrate across teams and functions to build highly motivated teams and foster an organizational culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, excitement/commitment, and continuous improvement and personal growth.

Objectives:

• Understand our business strategies and objectives in order to develop a comprehensive content strategy across multiple touchpoints and channels.
• You will establish a robust content workflow, management, and governance structure to streamline processes and ensure efficient content production and distribution.
• Taking ownership of measuring content performance, you will track metrics such as engagement, leads, and conversions after content publication, providing insights to improve content effectiveness.
• Additionally, you will build and lead a team of marketers, leveraging their expertise and skills to drive successful content initiatives and achieve our business goals.

What You Will Bring

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, characterized by a clear and engaging communication style.
• A unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise.
• A genuine passion for messaging, positioning, thought leadership narratives, and the art of conveying compelling customer stories.
• Proven expertise in content marketing, content strategy, message development, and storytelling.
• A track record of success in enterprise software/SaaS companies.
• Proficiency in developing buyer journey strategies.
• Experience interacting with senior executive leaders.
• Adaptability, resourcefulness, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and rapidly evolving environment.
• A strong execution mindset - we're moving fast, and there's a lot to do every day, and you don't mind getting scrappy.
• A track record of 5 plus years of leadership within a fast-paced, high growth Enterprise SaaS environment where cross-collaboration is your natural mode.

About the Team

Meet Mandy Dhaliwal, our CMO at Nutanix

• Mandy joined Nutanix in April 2022
• Mandy brings more than 25 years of experience in driving growth and innovation strategies across the cloud and software markets, and building high performing, mission-driven organizations.
• Prior to Nutanix, Mandy was the Chief Marketing Officer for Boomi, where she was responsible for leading, planning and executing the company's global go-to-market, brand presence, product marketing, demand generation, partner marketing, field marketing, customer advocacy, strategic events and corporate communications functions.
• Mandy's career experience spans high profile positions at venture-backed startups, high-growth businesses, and large public corporations.
• Ms. Dhaliwal received an MBA from Pepperdine University and an undergraduate degree from Simon Fraser University.

Quotes from the team:

"Mandy is an exceptional leader with proven technological savvy and unique insight into what it takes to build and drive industry leading solutions that meet the needs of the market," Rajiv Ramaswami, President and Chief Executive Officer at Nutanix.

About Us

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people (we call ourselves "Nutants") are the heartbeat of #LifeAtNutanix and one of the many things that makes Nutanix a great place to work. We share an intellectual curiosity, a bias for action, and an obsession for our customers. We are builders and problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Above all, we celebrate what makes each of us unique.

We are humbled to be recognized as one of Bloomberg's Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2020 and one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2020.

We're growing fast and disrupting the computing industry. Join us and make your mark.

About our business

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

The OTE pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $262,320 and $393,480 a year; however, pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Nutanix is an Equal Opportunity Employer

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy is to provide fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. Nutanix hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Nutanix believes that associates should be provided with a working environment that enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

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Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy is to provide fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability. Nutanix hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Nutanix believes that associates should be provided with a working environment that enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.