Field Marketing Manager, SEUR

The role, in a nutshell: 

As the Field Marketing Manager for Southern Europe & Middle East, you will play a key role within Chainguard’s EMEA marketing team, driving demand and pipeline across a diverse, high-growth region. Your core focus will be France, Middle East, and wider Southern Europe region,  working closely with regional sales, BDR, and partner teams to accelerate pipeline, shorten sales cycles, and deepen customer relationships.

You will be responsible for building and executing regional field marketing strategies that balance global consistency with local market nuance — tailoring programs to regional buying behaviors, partner ecosystems, and customer priorities.

As Chainguard continues to scale across EMEA, this role offers the opportunity to build, expand, and shape marketing coverage in Southern Europe and the Middle East, with clear potential to grow as the region matures.

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What You’ll Do

• Develop regional field marketing plans
  Create and execute quarterly marketing plans aligned to regional sales priorities, pipeline targets, and GTM strategy.

• Execute regional marketing programs
  Drive demand through a mix of Chainguard-hosted events, industry conferences, partner activations, digital programs, and global campaign execution.

• Lead strategic account engagement
  Design and deliver targeted marketing initiatives for key strategic accounts across Southern Europe and the Middle East.

• Support pan-EMEA initiatives
  Contribute to broader EMEA marketing programs and events, ensuring strong regional alignment and local relevance.

• Partner closely with sales
  Act as the primary marketing partner for regional sales leaders, BDRs, and partners — ensuring tight alignment across planning, execution, and measurement.

• Drive partner co-marketing
  Build and execute joint marketing plans with key regional and global partners to expand reach and influence in-market.

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Qualifications

✔️ 5+ years of experience in field marketing or demand generation, with a strong track record of working closely with sales teams and driving regional pipeline
✔️ Regional marketing expertise – Proven experience designing and executing field and digital programs across diverse regional markets
✔️ Strong partnership mindset – Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build trusted relationships with sales, partners, and stakeholders
✔️ Data-driven approach – Comfortable using metrics and insights to measure impact, optimize programs, and guide decision-making
✔️ Excellent communication and influence – Able to align teams, manage complexity, and move initiatives forward
✔️ Willingness to travel – Ability to travel approximately 20–25% per quarter to support events and regional priorities

About Us

Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.

Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default. 

Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.

 

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.

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