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# Director of Marketing, Europe, the Middle East and Africa at MinIO

- **Company:** MinIO
- **Location:** EMEA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio/jobs/5471675008

## Job description

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV are built for the speed, scale and economics that AI and analytics demand. Together they unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects, across core, edge and cloud. MinIO is trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100 and is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications and autonomous agents secure, persist and unlock the full value of their data.

We are hiring a hands-on marketing leader to bring MinIO’s global strategy to life across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). Working alongside core teams focused on global messaging and partner programs, you will translate corporate initiatives into localized execution that drives pipeline across EMEA’s key markets.

You will own the regional marketing plan, budget, and calendar, collaborating closely with EMEA Sales, Channel & Alliances, and Global Marketing. Success is measured by regional pipeline and revenue growth. As MinIO’s regional marketing lead, you will serve as our primary voice in a rapidly growing AI infrastructure market driven by sovereign AI, AI factory buildouts, and regulated industries.

## What You Will Do

Field Marketing

- Turn global campaigns and launches into localized, account-based programs: executive dinners, technical workshops, roundtables, and roadshows that move mid- and late-funnel deals forward.
- Build and run the EMEA field marketing calendar around regional pipeline targets and sales segment priorities.
- Support MinIO’s presence at key EMEA industry events (e.g., LEAP, GITEX), including partner co-sponsorships, joint demos and side events.
- Work with global digital demand, ABM, and product marketing teams to adapt content and assets for EMEA languages, markets, and buyers.

Channel Partner Marketing

- Execute global partner programs in EMEA in close alignment with Corporate Partner Marketing. For global focus partners with a significant EMEA presence, lead regional execution within joint plans.
- Build and manage joint marketing plans with European channel partners, covering target accounts, joint plays, quarterly milestones, and shared KPIs.
- Run co-marketing initiatives that accelerate deal registrations, including partner events, webinars, ABM campaigns, digital programs, and co-branded content.
- Adapt global partner toolkits and playbooks for regional partners and drive ongoing adoption.

Tech Alliance Partner Events

- Partner with Corporate Alliance Marketing to execute joint programs with key tech partners (e.g., NVIDIA, Databricks, HUMAIN, Datadog), providing regional expertise and market insights.
- Collaborate with partners’ regional marketing teams on local events, joint demonstrations, and campaigns targeting shared customers.
- Identify EMEA-specific joint use cases and target segments, including sovereign AI, regulated industries, and AI factory buildouts.

Measurement & Impact

- Marketing-sourced and marketing-influenced pipeline by program type
- Lead generation volume and conversion rates by channel and region
- Deal registration growth and partner-sourced revenue
- Event ROI (cost per opportunity, audience acquisition, post-event engagement)

## Your Skills and Experience

- 10+ years of B2B marketing experience, including 5+ years leading field, partner, or event marketing in EMEA for infrastructure, cloud, data, or storage software.
- Proven track record of translating global strategy into regional execution and results within a matrixed organization.
- Hands-on channel and alliance experience executing joint demand generation programs that deliver measurable pipeline.
- Deep familiarity with EMEA resellers, distributors, and systems integrators (e.g., Computacenter, SVA, Fujitsu), including their marketing planning and budget cycles.
- Analytical mindset with experience building performance dashboards, evaluating data, and optimizing budget allocation based on performance.
- Strong operational knowledge of EMEA regional nuances, including buyer behavior, partner routes to market, and compliance standards such as GDPR.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% across the region.
- London, UK area preferred.

## Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

## About MinIO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MinIO provides high-performance, S3-compatible object storage purpose-built for AI, analytics, and cloud-native workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $126.3M, last round $103M raised ~4 years ago)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Garima Kapoor, Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy, Harshavardhana

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure / Object Storage
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO), AI/ML teams, analytics platforms
- **Mission**: Remove every barrier between organizations and their data, enabling secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[MinIO AIStor](https://www.min.io/)**: High-performance object store with native S3 compatibility, consistent sub-10ms latency, exabyte-scale scalability, and 99.999999999% durability. Designed for AI training, inference, and analytics. Includes zero-touch operations, self-healing architecture, and 40% lower TCO.
- **Context Memory for AI Inference**: Purpose-built memory layer that delivers 95%+ GPU utilization, 50% lower cost per token, and average savings of $2M per 100 GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $126.3M total funding raised (Series B, last round $103M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors listed on company site but not named in public summaries; strategic partner Databricks (named 2026 ISV Storage Partner of the Year)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO
  - 32.9K+ GitHub stars, 53.3K+ community members, 1.4K+ contributors
  - Peak throughput of 19.2 TiB/s
  - Awarded 2026 Databricks ISV Storage Partner of the Year
  - Expanding globally with open roles in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, France, and across the US

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched performance**: Sub-10ms latency and ability to saturate any hardware (drive IOPS to network throughput)
- **Limitless scalability**: Single flat namespace scales across clusters, data centers, and clouds to exabyte level
- **Enterprise-grade reliability**: 11 nines durability, self-healing, zero-touch operations
- **Ecosystem integration**: Native support for PyTorch, Iceberg, and all major AI frameworks; richest S3 API support
- **Cost efficiency**: 40% lower total cost of ownership compared to legacy storage

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating AI transformation with a data foundation that unifies edge, core, and cloud environments
- Enabling zero-copy hybrid data architectures for analytics and agentic computing
- Deepening partnerships with AI/ML platforms (e.g., Databricks, NVIDIA) and expanding into new geographies

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hackers” who are problem solvers, kind, and minimalist. Emphasis on empathy, open discourse, rapid prototyping, data-driven change, and going above and beyond for customers.
- **Work environment**: Remote-first, globally distributed. Offices in Redwood City, CA (hybrid for some roles).
- **Benefits**: Medical, vision, dental insurance; paid maternity and paternity leave; $25,000 basic life insurance; long-term disability; unlimited vacation plus 12 paid holidays; 401(k) with match.
- **Diversity**: Hiring focused solely on talent and qualifications, regardless of background or demographics.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong open-source community (32.9K GitHub stars), rapid prototyping, and minimal overhead in product and process.

## Sources
1. [MinIO Careers Page](https://www.min.io/careers)
2. [MinIO Official Site](https://www.min.io/)
3. [MinIO Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio)
4. [MinIO About Page](https://www.minio.io/about)
5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/minio)

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