Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Zimbra Desktop

Company Info

Company Name: 

Zimbra

City: 

Sunnyvale

State: 

California

Postal Code: 

94089

Title: Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Zimbra Desktop
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Please send resumes to careers@zimbra.com

Top Reasons to Work at Zimbra:

1. Fun, Smart Team – Zimbra has assembled one of the best messaging teams ever put together in one company.
2. Strong Leadership – With a top tier leadership team Zimbra is a great place to be challenged and to grow.
3. Exciting Market – The messaging and open source market has changed dramatically in the last year. 2008 is the year where these changes will impact the desktop and hosted solutions.
4. Opportunity for Growth – The company is growing quickly and is committed to making sure that everyone has new opportunities to grow and to be a world class innovator.

Background Information on Zimbra:

Zimbra is a leading provider of email, calendaring and collaboration solutions for enterprises and service providers, and is an open source software company. We have 10,000+ customers for the commercial version of our Zimbra Collaboration Suite, including large enterprises such as H&R Block; technology leaders such as Mozilla, MySQL and O’Reilly Media; hundreds of universities such as Georgia Tech and Texas A&M and hundreds of hosting providers including ISPs with 11M+ users.

We are looking for a talented Sr. Marketing Manager to lead the go-to-market efforts Zimbra Desktop.

Responsibilities:
• Drive adoption of the best, open source offline messaging and calendar client that runs on Apple, Windows and Linux desktops
• Work with open source and other technology partners to spread the distribution of Zimbra Desktop
• Educate customers, partners, sales/support engineers, and other key parties on detailed product design, functionality, and technical architecture.
• Develop international channel partners to grow the adoption of Zimbra Desktop
• Create technical whitepapers, reviewers guides, web content, and other materials that clearly articulate Zimbra Desktop’s technical capabilities, roadmap, and vision
• Understand market and customer requirements and translate it into enhancement requests in our database
• Provide key technical content to partner marketing, channel marketing, and other marketing teams for the production of marketing collateral
• Manage metrics and track the adoption of Zimbra Desktop

Qualifications and Skills Required:
• MBA
• BA or BS in technical field
• 5+ years of hands on experience product marketing, product management or marketing in enterprise software or consumer software
• Ability to write competitive analyses, and in-depth product feature papers and to clearly articulate technical concepts in written and visual form
• Understanding of the open source community and experience with software developer communities