NetApp

Naming and Messaging Lead - Product Marketing

NetApp$160K — $175K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in Brand, Product, or strategic marketing roles.
  • Expertise in naming, positioning, and messaging for complex tech portfolios.
  • Ability to influence Product Marketing leaders as a peer.
  • Strong storytelling skills to simplify technical concepts for customers.
  • Collaborative attitude with executive communication skills.
  • Hands-on, detail-oriented approach to critical messaging tasks.

Responsibilities

  • Lead naming strategy and governance workflows for products.
  • Define differentiated positioning and messaging based on customer needs.
  • Develop names and articulate rationale through strategic documents.
  • Guide PMM teams with data-driven insights on product framing.
  • Enhance overall messaging quality across Product Marketing.
  • Craft customer-facing copy for naming and messaging.
  • Translate technical concepts into customer-friendly language.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance options available.
  • Life Insurance coverage offered.
  • Retirement or Pension Plans included.
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) provided.
  • Various Leave options supported.
  • Performance-Based Incentives available.
  • Employee stock purchase plan offered.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking for a strategic Marketing expert to lead naming and messaging workstreams across our portfolio. This is an individual contributor role designed for someone who operates with deep subject-matter expertise and has a unique combination of strategic and executional naming and messaging expertise along with world-class, hands-on writing abilities. You'll need to be able to both formulate the strategy behind naming and messaging through thoughtful strategic documents, as well as be able to generate names and write compelling customer-facing copy.

Reporting to the Head of Messaging, Product Marketing, you will drive naming, positioning, and messaging workstreams, partnering closely with Product Marketing leaders and managers across businesses to ensure consistent, differentiated, and customer-driven narratives that scale across the company. This role is central to supporting the development of naming and messaging deliverables for solutions and products, down to launches, sales motions, and copy used across customer touchpoints.

What You'll Do
Naming & Messaging Strategy and Execution
• Lead individual workflows for naming strategy and governance for products, platforms, solutions, and capabilities, including frameworks, criteria, and decision processes.
• Define differentiated positioning and messaging grounded in customer needs, market context, and competitive dynamics.
• Brainstorm names that align to the strategy with clearly articulated rationale for recommendations through strategic documents.
• Partner with Brand and Legal to ensure alignment with brand architecture and naming requirements.

Product Marketing Leadership Partnership
• Guide PMM teams on framing products, solutions, and launches through strong point-of-view, data-driven guidance, and hands-on collaboration.
• Help raise the overall bar for messaging quality, clarity, and consistency across Product Marketing.

Copywriting & Storytelling
• Write customer-facing naming and messaging. Be deeply hands-on in writing
• Develop positioning statements and value propositions
• Create messaging frameworks and guides
• Develop launch narratives and key messages
• Write executive-level storytelling and talking points
• Create foundational copy used across web, sales, and GTM assets
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling, customer-centric language.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner closely with Product Management and Product Marketing managers to translate roadmap priorities and innovation into crisp, outcome-oriented messaging.
• Collaborate with Corporate Marketing and Brand to ensure alignment between product messaging, brand narrative, campaigns, events, and thought leadership.
• Work with Sales, Enablement, and GTM teams to ensure messaging is usable, differentiated, and effective in the field.
• Incorporate customer insights, competitive intelligence, and market feedback to continuously refine messaging.

Requirements
• 7+ years experience in Brand, Product or other Marketing or related strategic marketing roles.
• Proven expertise in naming, positioning, and messaging for complex technology portfolios.
• Operate comfortably as a peer to Product Marketing leaders, influencing without authority.
• Exceptional storyteller who can distill complex technical concepts into clear, compelling copy.
• Highly collaborative, with strong executive communication skills and sound judgment.
• Hands-on, detail-oriented, and comfortable owning critical messaging artifacts end-to-end.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working across multi-product or platform-based portfolios.
• Familiarity with brand architecture, naming and messaging governance, and trademark considerations.
• Background in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data, or SaaS markets.

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing or business related area OR Equivalent combination of additional experience as stated above, in place of degree.

Compensation:
The target (base) salary range for this position is $160,000-175,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

About NetApp

NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloud-like experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people?anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com.
Learn more about NetApp
Size
12,000 employees
Market Cap
$12.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$592 million
Founded
1992
5 Year Trend
+2.8%
Revenue
$5.5 billion
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