Solutions Marketing Manager

Role Overview

This role manages product marketing for document databases (MongoDB), MySQL, and MariaDB. Percona is fully remote, and open source in our identity. Location: Remote (EMEA or Americas preferred, for core-hours overlap with the team).

What You Will Do

Initial focus (document databases like MongoDB, MySQL, and MariaDB): Technical product messaging and positioning for Percona’s MongoDB related offerings, MySQL, and MariaDB support and expertise. Use case and value based messaging for all feature messaging for GTM. Competitive positioning. Across the portfolio (ongoing): Coordinate with Product on roadmap inputs for your portfolio areas. Translate VOC from support, consulting, and sales into positioning updates and product feedback. Own launch plans for releases, features, and service offerings in your areas. Contribute to launches, enablement, and messaging that span multiple database technologies.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You don’t need to come from a product marketing background. If you’ve done technical content, developer relations, solutions engineering, or technical writing in the database or infrastructure space, and you can translate complex technology into clear messaging, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

• Strong communicator. Can write for technical buyers (DBAs, SREs, platform engineers) and economic buyers (VP Eng, CTO, CISO). Clear and concise internally too.
• Stakeholder skills. Builds trust across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Services. Responsive, organized, follows through.
• Technical foundation. Comfortable in technical conversations about databases, infrastructure, and operations. Can learn complex technology quickly and translate it into clear messaging. Can work in, or can learn to work in GitHub. Understanding of use cases that drive these buyers: migrations, high availability, performance, cost, compliance, and AI or vector workloads.
• Open source mindset. Understands transparent work, respects community, and describes licenses honestly, including when software is source-available rather than open source. Has worked in or engaged with open source in some meaningful way.
• Adaptable. Willing to work across multiple database technologies when the team needs it.
• 3+ years in a technical marketing, developer relations, solutions engineering, technical writing, or product marketing role.

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Various paid time off programs
• All your equipment for your remote office
• Funds for career development (external training, certifications, conferences)
• Ongoing connectivity allowances
• Opportunity to participate in our equity incentive plan
• The Percona Adventure Team
• Work-from-Anywhere
• FlowDays
• FryDays
• Overall flexibility
• PAVE volunteering program
• Women Transforming Technology