About the role

As the Head of Marketing at AuthZed, you will craft a marketing strategy designed to both grow adoption of our open source project and drive demand generation for our commercial products via GTM strategy and product marketing/messaging. Our leaders contribute both strategically and by helping their teams with hands-on execution. As an experienced marketing team leader, your ability to understand and effectively communicate our vision and products’ value propositions to a highly technical audience will prove invaluable. Your expertise in building a marketing program designed for a rapidly scaling tech startup will be crucial in driving our growth and establishing AuthZed as the leader in the app authorization solutions space.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a comprehensive strategic marketing plan and product messaging that aligns with the company's goals and vision.
Lead and manage all aspects of marketing across digital, content, brand, community, and product marketing.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive and effective go-to-market strategy focused on growing product adoption, brand awareness, and establishing a voice of technical leadership in our market.
Analyze market trends, competitor activity, and customer behavior to inform strategic decisions.
Direct and inspire the creation of innovative, engaging, and informative marketing materials, including digital content, presentations, and sales enablement collateral tailored to various buyer personas in the enterprise technical space.
Create imaginative integrated multi-channel campaigns that empower our sales team to make meaningful connections with both current and future potential customers.
Identify and measure the metrics that matter for attributing strategic wins and losses such that we can learn from past performance and build toward more effective future efforts.
Establish, nurture, and empower a culture of creativity, innovation, enthusiasm, and excellence within our marketing team as it continues to grow.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of experience marketing a highly technical product, with meaningful experience in a leadership role.
Proven track record of developing and executing successful comprehensive marketing programs.
Experience in the product marketing side of GTM.
Strong understanding of current marketing trends, channels and lean martech stacks.
Excellent communication, consensus-building, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and lead a team.
Experience in marketing technical open-source products is highly desirable.
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to make data-driven decisions oriented toward meaningful outcomes.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent additional experience in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field; Master's degree is a plus.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
Comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare (in the US) and other insurance.
Opportunity to work in a dynamic, innovative, and supportive remote-first environment.
Professional development and career growth opportunities.

About authzed

We’re pioneering open-source authorization solutions for scaling businesses tackling complex end-user permissions in zero-trust architectures. Our focus is on providing SpiceDB—the most mature open-source permissions database inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system—and building managed services that enable planet-scale production authorization services.

Our strategic approach to capital-raising has empowered us to efficiently utilize our $3.9M seed fund. We’ve developed SpiceDB, now the open source standard in authorization database technology, fortified our reputation as authorization experts, accelerated our open-source community growth, and are scaling revenue with robust enterprise products.

AuthZed is a fully remote company with employees across the US and Europe. We’re a hardworking group with a software-driven culture; even our sales team understands and loves our technology! We bring integrity to all our interactions, fostering confidence in decision making - trusting and respecting each voice on our team, every day.

Company Values

Agency
- Everyone should have the capability, freedom, and confidence to bring about changes to our business and product. Organizational processes exist to clearly define our goals, but not restrict how progress is made.
Collaboration
- Success is defined in various dimensions and no single person can be an expert in all of them. Without valuing the opinions of others, finding compromises, and sharing mutual trust and respect, you cannot arrive at the best possible solution.
Open-mindness
- Without asking questions, testing assumptions, and questioning our pre-existing biases we risk operating within an echo-chamber. We celebrate the representation of diverse perspectives and backgrounds as a catalyst for creating an inclusive work environment that everyone can appreciate.