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About the Role

Ocean is seeking its first Product Marketing Lead to define how the company shows up in the market from the ground up. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with founders and shape a genuinely differentiated product into a category that people understand and want to be part of. The position requires a hands-on approach, with significant ownership and the chance to make a disproportionate impact in a fast-growing cybersecurity startup.

Responsibilities

Own Ocean's story, developing and evolving market positioning, messaging, and adapting it for key audiences.
Translate complex technology into compelling stories, messaging, and content for buyers.
Create high-quality content across various formats, including thought leadership, technical storytelling, and customer stories.
Shape Ocean's market voice and presence through experimentation with new formats, channels, and ideas.
Partner with sales and customer-facing teams by providing messaging, materials, and content.
Lead the introduction of major product and company moments to the world.
Build the product marketing function by defining best practices and establishing its foundation.

Requirements

Product marketing experience at a cybersecurity startup, including understanding the security market, buyer behavior, and marketing complex technical products.
Exceptional content creation and writing skills, with the ability to produce high-quality work independently.
Proven experience in owning positioning and messaging for technical products.
Experience leading analyst briefings with firms like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.
Exceptional communication skills, with a sharp instinct for compelling storytelling.
Deep technical curiosity and the ability to understand and explain complex products.
Strong technical range, comfortable translating complex technology for various audiences.
Experience operating broadly across the product marketing function, from strategy to execution.
Proficiency as an AI super-user, integrating AI tools into research, learning, and content creation.
Comfort appearing on camera and communicating publicly about complex security concepts.

Skills

Product Marketing
Cybersecurity
Content Creation
Writing
Positioning
Messaging
Analyst Relations
Communication
Technical Storytelling
AI Tools
Public Speaking
Storytelling

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead

About the Company

Ocean is building the future of email security with an agentic security platform designed for modern threats.
Founded in 2024, Ocean protects hundreds of thousands of mailboxes and analyzes over a billion emails monthly for major companies.
The company is backed by $28M in funding from prominent venture capital firms and cybersecurity operators.
Ocean operates at a rapid pace, valuing quality and efficiency over bureaucracy, and offers significant ownership and impact opportunities.