Nirmata hiring Founding Product Marketer • Remote (Work from Home) | Himalayas
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Founding Product Marketer

Nirmata provides cloud-native security policy automation and governance solutions, specializing in Kubernetes environments with its open-source policy engine, Kyverno.

Nirmata

Employee count: 51-200

United States only

At Nirmata, our mission is to accelerate adoption of cloud native technologies for enterprises. We believe that software can radically transform the world and are building a solution to help enterprises deliver and operate mission critical software at scale. Nirmata is an enterprise-grade multi-cloud Kubernetes platform.

About the Role:

This isn’t just another product marketing role—it’s a chance to shape the narrative of a company defining a new category at the intersection of Kubernetes, security, and AI infrastructure.

As the Product Marketer, you’ll play a critical role in driving Nirmata’s growth and market impact. You’ll own the way we position our products, tell our story, and enable our sales and marketing teams to win. From launching new capabilities to creating content that shifts perception, you’ll help turn our technical strengths into a strategic advantage.

This is a highly visible, high-impact role where your work won’t just support the business—it will help steer its trajectory. You’ll collaborate closely with the founders, product, engineering, and GTM teams to connect our technology to the people who need it most.

If you thrive on ownership, love simplifying complexity, and want to help build the go-to-market engine at a fast-growing startup, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities:

  • Messaging Positioning: Define clear, differentiated messaging for our platform and products across personas and segments.
  • Launches: Plan and execute product and feature launches in partnership with product, sales, and marketing.
  • Content Development: Create and drive content that supports demand gen, sales enablement, and customer education—including webpages, one-pagers, decks, and thought leadership.
  • Competitive Intelligence: Track competitors, market trends, and adjacent categories. Help the company stay informed and sharpen differentiation.
  • Customer Market Insights: Work with customers, analysts, and internal teams to surface insights that shape GTM strategy and roadmap.
  • Sales Enablement: Equip our sales team with the tools, training, and narratives they need to win.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years in B2B product marketing, preferably in infrastructure, DevOps, security, or developer tools.
  • Strong writer and storyteller with the ability to translate technical features into customer value.
  • Experience owning messaging, launches, and sales enablement in cross-functional teams.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced startup environment—where you have to balance speed, strategy, and collaboration
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, open source, or cloud-native technologies is a strong plus.
  • Bonus: Experience marketing to platform engineering, DevSecOps, or cloud infrastructure buyers.

Why Join Us?

  • Be part of defining a fast-growing category at the intersection of Kubernetes, policy-as-code, and security.
  • Work with a product customers love—built on top of one of the most-used open-source policy engines.
  • Make your mark early at a company entering its next phase of growth.
  • Competitive compensation, meaningful equity based on experience
  • Flexible remote work with an energetic, enthusiastic collaborative team.

Benefits: Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision; Equity awards; Flexible time off; Remote - work anywhere; Home office setup assistance.

ABOUT NIRMATA

Nirmata empowers organizations to innovate rapidly without compromising security or compliance. With Gartner forecasting that 99% of cloud security failures will result from misconfigurations by 2027, Nirmata's policy-as-code platform offers a proactive solution. Nirmata's highly customizable policies seamlessly integrate with your cloud-native environments, ensuring robust governance and security at scale. Trusted by top financial institutions and global enterprises—and with over 3.2 billion downloads of Kyverno, Nirmata's open source policy engine —Kyverno simplifies compliance, mitigates risk, and accelerates the enterprise journey to secure innovation.

Nirmata’s success is built on the diverse contributions of its employees. We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone's perspective is valued, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, or disability status. All application information will be kept confidential in accordance with EEO guidelines.

Nirmata uses E-Verify for US-based roles, confirming work authorization after a job offer is accepted and the I-9 is completed. If E-Verify can't confirm authorization, we'll provide instructions on contacting DHS or SSA before any action is taken. See the Notice of Right to Work for details.

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Nirmata provides cloud-native policy and governance solutions, empowering platform engineering and security teams to automate compliance, reduce vulnerabilities, and manage security across Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments. The company is the creator of Kyverno, a widely adopted open-source policy engine specifically designed for Kubernetes. Nirmata's Policy-as-Code platform enables organizations to enforce security, operations, and compliance policies, helping to prevent misconfigurations and ensure continuous compliance in real-time. This allows engineering teams to maintain clean and secure production environments. The Nirmata platform is designed to be open and easy to adopt, facilitating the deployment, operation, and optimization of Kubernetes workloads on any infrastructure.

Nirmata's solutions are built to address the complexities of managing cloud-native applications at scale. The platform offers a single management and control plane across multiple Kubernetes clusters and cloud providers. It supports automated Kubernetes cluster installation, upgrades, and operations on any cloud and can discover existing Kubernetes clusters for complete visibility and management. Nirmata integrates with major public and private cloud providers, allowing for the composition of clusters from heterogeneous resources and full automation of container host management. The company emphasizes policy-based automation for deploying, operating, and optimizing containerized applications, providing intuitive interfaces to simplify complex operations. Nirmata's offerings include Nirmata Control Hub and Nirmata Enterprise Kyverno, which extend the capabilities of the open-source Kyverno by providing centralized visibility, collaboration workflows, offline scanning, auto-remediation, and comprehensive compliance reporting. The company serves a diverse range of enterprise customers, including prominent names like LinkedIn, Deutsche Telekom, and Wayfair, helping them to securely scale their Kubernetes operations.

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