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title: 'Head of Product Marketing at Akuity'
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# Head of Product Marketing at Akuity

- **Company:** Akuity
- **Location:** United States and, Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity/jobs/4369070009

## Job description

Head of Product Marketing Remote

The Company

Akuity is a Sunnyvale, CA-based business founded to provide software delivery for enterprises. With generative AI accelerating code creation, the new bottleneck is application delivery. Akuity's customer growth is driven by enterprise companies that need governance and compliance at scale, and by AI-native companies, including AI infrastructure and cloud companies, that rely on scalability, security, and speed to compete in the market.

Akuity was founded by the original creators of the Argo and Kargo projects. With 30K+ GitHub stars, Argo is one of the most widely adopted projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem: more than 70% of organizations running Kubernetes have adopted Argo CD. Kargo, a more recent project, has helped to define the Continuous Promotion category and has emerged as a category leader.

The Opportunity

Akuity is looking for a Head of Product Marketing to build and lead the product marketing function from the ground up. This is a foundational hire: the person in this role will lead the product and company narrative, set the strategic direction for how Akuity positions itself against category competitors, and build the messaging frameworks, launch processes, and enablement systems that scale with the company.

The role reports into the VP of Marketing, partners directly with the CEO and product leadership on positioning and launch strategy, and works closely with Sales and Community/Dev Relations to translate technical differentiation into buyer-ready value propositions.

Akuity's products, users, and buyers are a deeply technical audience. This role requires genuine curiosity about the underlying technology (GitOps, Kubernetes, progressive delivery) and the credibility to engage directly with engineers, platform teams, and technical buyers, not just marketing stakeholders.

## Key job responsibilities

- Own and evolve Akuity's top-level messaging and positioning across the product portfolio, ensuring a consistent, differentiated narrative across every customer touchpoint.
- Set the strategy for major product launches, including go-to-market timing, narrative arc, and cross-functional coordination across Product, Sales, and Community/Dev Relations.
- Build and scale the core content and enablement infrastructure for GTM: messaging frameworks, competitive battlecards, sales playbooks, presentations, case studies, and proof points.
- Partner directly with the CEO and product leadership to shape how the company tells its story to press, analysts, investors, and the broader market.
- Establish and run a competitive intelligence practice, tracking category shifts and ensuring Akuity's positioning stays ahead of competitors rather than reactive to them.
- Define what "customer proof" looks like at Akuity and build the systems (case studies, reference programs, proof points) to capture and deploy it credibly across marketing and sales content.
- Represent product marketing in company-wide strategic planning, providing the voice of the market and the buyer in roadmap and business decisions.
- Hire, develop, and eventually manage a small product marketing team as the function scales.
- Establish the metrics and reporting cadence that demonstrate product marketing's impact on pipeline, win rates, and sales velocity.

## Basic Qualifications

- 7+ years of product marketing experience, including at least 2+ years in a technical product company at Series A/B stage or comparable growth stage.
- Track record of building a product marketing function or a major GTM motion (launch process, competitive program, sales enablement system) from scratch.
- Experience using data and metrics to demonstrate marketing's impact on pipeline and revenue outcomes.
- Experience building, executing, and scaling marketing campaigns from concept through measurable results.
- Comfortable with core marketing tools (HubSpot, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager) and able to set reporting standards for a growing team.
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with executive leadership (CEO, VP Product, VP Sales) on strategic narrative and positioning decisions.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in open-source-adjacent, developer tools, or infrastructure/Kubernetes-ecosystem companies.
- Experience managing and scaling relationships with external content or creative agencies.
- Experience building and managing a product marketing team, including hiring and developing early-career PMMs.
- Experience presenting to and influencing investor audiences.

Why Akuity?

We are positioned to win in today's market. Software delivery is more important today than ever. With generative AI accelerating code creation, the new bottleneck is application delivery.

The Akuity culture values humility, authenticity, and diversity. We want to work with people of different backgrounds and experiences and we trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and collaborate as teammates. We seek collaborative, inquisitive, and dedicated individuals to join our team.

Akuity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

## About Akuity

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Akuity provides an enterprise-grade, AI-powered software delivery platform built on Argo CD and Kargo to automate GitOps, continuous promotion, and incident intelligence for cloud-native teams.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Hong Wang (CEO), Jesse Suen (CTO), Alexander Matyushentsev (Chief Architect)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development, Cloud-Native Infrastructure, DevOps, GitOps
- **Target customers**: B2B; Platform teams, SREs, and DevOps engineers at fast-moving startups to global enterprises managing Kubernetes and cloud-native applications.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To modernize the cloud-native application delivery landscape and provide a delightful end-to-end developer experience that just works." [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/company)

## Products & Services
- **Akuity Platform (Enterprise GitOps)**: A managed, enterprise-grade Argo CD implementation that eliminates the operational burden of self-hosting. It provides multi-cluster management, secure projects, auditability, and eliminates the need for upgrades, patching, and scaling. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
- **Kargo (Continuous Promotion)**: An automated, auditable promotion engine that moves applications from development to staging to production without fragile CI/CD scripts. It uses artifacts and commit metadata for full traceability and adds guardrails for safe releases. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
- **Akuity Intelligence (AI SRE)**: An AI-powered module that detects drift and degraded workloads, correlates logs/metrics/events in a single view, and executes automated runbooks to resolve issues, keeping teams aligned via Slack. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **USD 24.5M** (Series A: $20M led by Lead Edge Capital and Decibel Partners in May 2022; Seed: $4.5M led by Decibel Partners in Oct 2021) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead Edge Capital, Decibel Partners. Advisors include Kelsey Hightower, Shay Banon (Elastic), Greg (former CEO of Mulesoft), and Mallik Mahalingam (VP at Intuit). [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/company)
- **Growth Signals**: Trusted to manage **1 million+ applications**; headcount grew **+17.4% YoY** to 43 employees; operates in 11 countries; job postings increased **+900% YoY**; customer CoreWeave cut onboarding time from days to under an hour. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio) [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founded by the creators of Argo CD**: The team that built the most popular open-source GitOps tool (Argo CD, a CNCF graduated project) also built Akuity, giving them unmatched expertise and credibility in the space.
- **AI-Powered SRE (Akuity Intelligence)**: A unique differentiator that acts as an AI SRE, automatically detecting drift, correlating observability data, and executing runbooks—moving beyond simple deployment to intelligent operations.
- **End-to-End Platform**: Combines continuous deployment (Argo CD), continuous promotion (Kargo), and AI-driven operations in a single managed platform, reducing tool-switching and complexity.
- **Enterprise-Grade by Default**: SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, with built-in guardrails, audit trails, and policy-driven promotions across Kubernetes, VMs, and cloud environments.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the Platform**: Continue to grow the number of managed applications (already over 1 million) and clusters, targeting larger enterprise customers.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Expand Akuity Intelligence to further automate incident detection, diagnosis, and remediation, reducing the burden on SRE teams.
- **Expand Global Reach**: With operations in 11 countries and active hiring in EMEA and North America, the company is focused on building a distributed, global team.
- **Open Source Leadership**: Maintain deep ties to the Argo and Kargo open-source communities, driving innovation and adoption while monetizing the enterprise platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Work with the Creators of Argo**: Employees collaborate directly with the co-creators and core maintainers of the Argo project, offering a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud-native delivery.
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company is remote-first, with employees across the US, EMEA, and Asia. Most roles are fully remote, though there is a physical office in Sunnyvale, CA. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/akuity)
- **High-Growth Environment**: With a 17.4% headcount increase YoY, a 900% increase in job postings, and a platform managing over 1 million applications, the company is in a rapid scaling phase, offering significant career growth opportunities. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Open Source at the Core**: Employees work directly with the creators and maintainers of the Argo project, contributing to a major CNCF ecosystem. The company is deeply embedded in the open-source community.
- **Global & Remote**: The team spans 11 countries (US, India, China, Canada, Spain, Poland, etc.) and most roles are remote. The company offers flexibility across time zones. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)
- **Notable Perks**: Direct access to Argo co-creators for mentorship; SOC 2 Type 2 compliant infrastructure; modern tech stack (Kubernetes, Go, Argo, Kargo, Terraform, etc.).

## Sources
1. [akuity.io](https://akuity.io/)
2. [akuity.io/company](https://akuity.io/company)
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/akuity)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/akuity)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/akuityio)

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