Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.
Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
The role, in a nutshell:
This role is for a Senior Product Marketing Manager who will lead ongoing launches, growth initiatives, and supply chain security storytelling for Chainguard Repository. Chainguard is innovative at its core - the products we build are new and different - and articulating our value in a compelling and credible way is essential to our growth. This role requires strong communication, collaboration skills and some level of technical knowledge and comfortability with open source artifacts and supply chain security.
Chainguard Repository is a single, policy-managed experience for pulling artifacts that Chainguard either builds or distributes. It gives your organization one place to pull open source artifacts, configure security policies that govern how they are consumed, and monitor coverage and policy enforcement across your environment.
Key Repository capabilities include:
- A Chainguard-managed experience for pulling container images, libraries, OS packages, agent skills, CI/CD workflows, and virtual machine images
- A policy engine that enables flexible policy configurations for various artifact types
- A source code and maintainer behavior scanner
What you’ll do:
- Manage ongoing launches of new capabilities, features, and integrations for Chainguard Repository, ensuring successful cross-functional rollout across GTM.
- Develop and refine product positioning, messaging, presentations, and core content that articulate Chainguard Repository’s unique value.
- Drive growth initiatives with content and cross-functional plans that leverage Chainguard's malware and greyware scanning and maintainer-behavior analysis capabilities.
- Build consumable product and technical content across video, digital, and written formats.
- Collaborate with product security teams on malware and greyware analysis, translating findings into credible, differentiated narratives.
- Create enablement content and serve as a subject matter expert for sales and sales engineering teams, ensuring the field has the tools and knowledge to succeed; own competitive overviews and objection handling for your products.
- Collaborate with demand generation and corporate marketing teams to develop campaigns, create necessary content, and present at events.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering on product strategy, and contribute state-of-the-business and roadmap updates.
What we're looking for:
- 5+ years of product marketing experience in B2B technology, ideally with familiarity in open source software, enterprise security, and technical products.
- Ability to manage product launches and go-to-market strategies effectively.
- Comfort with technical content and the ability to build technical materials, plus the agility to turn breaking security events into clear, timely narratives.
- Proven success in cross-functional, highly collaborative roles.
- Ability to perform well in a dynamic, rapidly growing environment, balancing both strategic planning and hands-on execution.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex information in a clear and compelling manner.
We live and breathe our company values:
- We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
- We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
- We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
- We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years of product marketing experience in B2B technology
- Familiarity with open source software, enterprise security, and technical products
- Experience managing product launches and go-to-market strategies
- Comfort building technical content and translating security findings into clear narratives
- Proven success in cross-functional, highly collaborative roles
- Ability to balance strategic planning and hands-on execution in a fast-growing environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for conveying complex information
Chainguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Chainguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Chainguard.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as fully paid for employees and dependents, including medical, dental, and vision. This reduces out-of-pocket costs and materially elevates total compensation.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave policies and family-planning support (adoption, IVF, egg freezing, surrogacy) are presented as generous and flexible. This breadth supports different family needs and enhances perceived rewards beyond base pay.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options are granted at hire and promotion with a long exercise window, improving flexibility and usability. This design can make equity more accessible and valuable over time.
Chainguard Insights
What We Do
Chainguard is the secure foundation for building with open source software. The company's portfolio of secure, minimal container images helps organizations embrace a new culture of software development where starting left with security, not shifting left, is the reality. Chainguard was founded by the industry's leading experts on software supply chain security, open source, software, and cloud-native development. We aren't a traditional security vendor. It's container images provide secure-by-default infrastructure that introduces zero friction to developer workflows. That's why developers love and CISOS trust Chainguard. Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology and security companies, including Anduril, Canva, Domino Data Lab, Checkmarx, HPE, GitLab, Snowflake, and Wiz. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Spark Capital.
Why Work With Us
Security is our mission, but having fun is our mantra. Since our founding, we've increased +1M memes, sung 900+ hours of Kubernetes-themed karaoke, and created 774+ whacky Slack emojis. Beyond this, Chainguard's innovation and leadership in open source and software supply chain security has been recognized by industry leaders.
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