Senior Director | Halcyon | Remote (United States)
Posted 2025-09-08
Remote, USA
Full Time
Immediate Start
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">What we do:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon is the industry’s first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we’ll work a plan to meet your needs.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The Role:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon is looking for a Senior Director, Product Marketing, reporting directly to our CMO. In this newly created position, this person will help to build out the function and strategic planning to enable the GTM team with product launches, campaigns, and collateral to continue to successfully grow the business.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Responsibilities:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strategic Marketing Leadership: Develop and implement comprehensive product marketing strategies to support awareness, demand, and adoption of Halcyon’s anti-ransomware security solutions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Responsible for creating all analyst briefings, marketing campaigns and communications (press releases, demonstrations, tradeshow materials, website assets and content).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Positioning and Messaging: Craft compelling product positioning and messaging that clearly communicates the value and differentiation of our products to target audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Go-to-Market Planning: Define and execute go-to-market strategies for product launches, ensuring alignment with sales, product management, and engineering teams. Responsible for the roll out to internal teams. Customers, partners and prospects.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to understand customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Content Development: Create high-quality marketing collateral, including case studies, whitepapers, datasheets, blog posts, and presentations to support product, sales and marketing efforts. Translate complex technical features and benefits into clear, compelling content that resonates with non-technical audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Sales Enablement: Develop and deliver sales enablement materials and training to equip the sales team with the knowledge and tools to effectively sell our products.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ownership of pricing, competitive analysis, playbooks and any other collateral needed to align the business on the selling model.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Communicate all feedback on the product back to engineering leadership, acting as a voice for the customer.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Requirements:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">10+ years in a B2B SaaS cybersecurity company, preferably in the endpoint, threat detection, or threat hunting space.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience acting as the key person leading the execution of product marketing, working directly with the engineering and product management teams on strategy through to completion.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent oral and written communication skills, comfortable with speaking engagements.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to translate technical terms into sales and marketing content for numerous audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Organized, self-starter with an excellent attention to detail and sense of urgency.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k plan with a generous employer contribution.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical and dependent care FSA options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO policy.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Parental leave.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Generous equity offering.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Base Salary Range</strong>: $230,000 – $250,000</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.</strong></p>
<!-- -->Halcyon is the industry’s first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Who we are:</strong><br />
<!-- -->Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you’re interested in and we’ll work a plan to meet your needs.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">The Role:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon is looking for a Senior Director, Product Marketing, reporting directly to our CMO. In this newly created position, this person will help to build out the function and strategic planning to enable the GTM team with product launches, campaigns, and collateral to continue to successfully grow the business.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Responsibilities:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Strategic Marketing Leadership: Develop and implement comprehensive product marketing strategies to support awareness, demand, and adoption of Halcyon’s anti-ransomware security solutions.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Responsible for creating all analyst briefings, marketing campaigns and communications (press releases, demonstrations, tradeshow materials, website assets and content).</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Positioning and Messaging: Craft compelling product positioning and messaging that clearly communicates the value and differentiation of our products to target audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Go-to-Market Planning: Define and execute go-to-market strategies for product launches, ensuring alignment with sales, product management, and engineering teams. Responsible for the roll out to internal teams. Customers, partners and prospects.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Market Research: Conduct thorough market research to understand customer needs, industry trends, and competitive landscape.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Content Development: Create high-quality marketing collateral, including case studies, whitepapers, datasheets, blog posts, and presentations to support product, sales and marketing efforts. Translate complex technical features and benefits into clear, compelling content that resonates with non-technical audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Sales Enablement: Develop and deliver sales enablement materials and training to equip the sales team with the knowledge and tools to effectively sell our products.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ownership of pricing, competitive analysis, playbooks and any other collateral needed to align the business on the selling model.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Communicate all feedback on the product back to engineering leadership, acting as a voice for the customer.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Requirements:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">10+ years in a B2B SaaS cybersecurity company, preferably in the endpoint, threat detection, or threat hunting space.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Experience acting as the key person leading the execution of product marketing, working directly with the engineering and product management teams on strategy through to completion.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Excellent oral and written communication skills, comfortable with speaking engagements.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Ability to translate technical terms into sales and marketing content for numerous audiences.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Organized, self-starter with an excellent attention to detail and sense of urgency.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Benefits:</strong></p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:</p>
<ul class=" text-base sm:text-lg marker:text-color list-inside list-disc text-gray-500 list-disc list-outside pl-3 mb-6">
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">401k plan with a generous employer contribution.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Medical and dependent care FSA options.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Flexible PTO policy.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Parental leave.</span></li>
<li class=" leading-snug mb-2 pl-2"><span class="text-gray-200">Generous equity offering.</span></li>
</ul>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">Base Salary Range</strong>: $230,000 – $250,000</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3">In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.</p>
<p class=" text-gray-200 text-base sm:text-lg leading-relaxed mb-3"><strong class=" font-semibold">We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.</strong></p>