Orkes

Product Marketing Manager

Canada, Kentucky, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Junior (1 to 2 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Software as a Service (SaaS)Industries

Position Overview

  • Location Type: Remote
  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Salary: Not specified

About Orkes: Orkes is a platform for developers to build durable, distributed event-driven applications. Based on the popular open-source orchestration engine Conductor, Orkes lets developers focus on faster go-to-market with applications, scaling them to handle billions of workflows without having to worry about failures, scalability, or visibility into the executions.

Job Summary: As a Product Marketing Manager, you’ll help shape how the world understands Orkes — from the first blog a developer reads to the first product demo they see. You’ll be the bridge between product, marketing, and sales, enabling go-to-market success and making Orkes irresistible to our audience.

Your Day-to-Day at Orkes

  • Run Monthly Webinars: Lead end-to-end execution of informative, engaging webinars that showcase Orkes Conductor to prospects and customers.
  • Conduct Market Research Calls: Run 2–3 market research interviews per month with prospects or customers and synthesize insights into derivative content for demand generation, sales enablement, and strategic planning.
  • Create Buyer-Focused Content: Create and publish 1-2 whitepapers per month, tailored to developers, architects, and decision-makers.
  • Drive Sales Enablement: Build compelling messaging, collateral, battlecards, and playbooks that arm the sales team with everything they need to win.
  • Launch Product Updates: Lead go-to-market plans for new features and enhancements, translating technical innovation into clear value.
  • Push Case Studies & Logos: Collaborate with customer success to spotlight successful use cases and land new logos.
  • Support Demand Gen: Partner with the Demand Generation team to craft high-converting content and messaging across campaigns.

Qualities That Will Help You Succeed

  • 2–4 years of experience in B2B SaaS product marketing (this is not a senior role).
  • Strong technical curiosity — you can pick up new tools quickly and enjoy getting hands-on with product features.
  • Understanding of microservices, APIs, and distributed architectures.
  • Solid grasp of developer tools and the ability to translate technical features into business value.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to adapt content for different personas and funnel stages.
  • Proactive collaborator who thrives working across product, engineering, sales, and marketing.

You Will Have a Fast Start If:

  • You’ve worked in a developer-focused or infrastructure software company.
  • You’ve demoed technical products or built basic demos to showcase value.
  • You’ve tried out Orkes Conductor.
  • You have experience supporting product-led growth or solution-based messaging.
  • You’re comfortable creating content for both technical and business audiences.

Application Instructions

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Skills

Market Research
Webinar Execution
Content Creation
Sales Enablement
Go-to-Market Planning
Demand Generation
B2B SaaS Marketing

Orkes

Platform for coding and managing distributed systems

About Orkes

Orkes.io provides a platform that focuses on improving the development, scaling, and monitoring of distributed systems. Its main product, Orkes Conductor, allows users to design their business logic in a user-friendly way, akin to sketching on a whiteboard. Users can write components in their chosen programming languages and frameworks, deploy them at scale without complex setups, and monitor their performance across various systems. What sets Orkes.io apart from its competitors is its flexibility in deployment; clients can choose to have Orkes Conductor hosted entirely by Orkes.io or run it within their own cloud infrastructure, such as Azure, AWS, or GCP. This adaptability caters to diverse client requirements. The goal of Orkes.io is to provide a comprehensive solution for application orchestration, ensuring security through features like access control and Single Sign-On, while also nurturing a community of developers and architects who can collaborate and share insights.

Cupertino, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2020Year Founded
$28.5MTotal Funding
SERIES_ACompany Stage
Enterprise Software, Cybersecurity, EducationIndustries
51-200Employees

Risks

Netflix's discontinuation of Conductor maintenance pressures Orkes to innovate independently.
$20M funding round may create expectations for rapid growth, posing operational challenges.
Intensifying competition in microservices orchestration could impact Orkes' market share.

Differentiation

Orkes Conductor simplifies application building with a whiteboard-like business logic modeling.
The platform supports coding in any language and framework, enhancing developer flexibility.
Orkes offers flexible deployment options, including client-hosted or fully managed clusters.

Upsides

Growing interest in microservices architecture boosts demand for Orkes' orchestration platform.
Hybrid cloud environments increase need for Orkes' cross-platform integration capabilities.
Rising DevOps practices enhance relevance of Orkes Conductor's workflow automation features.

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