Director, Marketing

About Amper

Amper is a fast-growing, early-stage, VC-backed SaaS company revolutionizing manufacturing operations through real-time visibility and actionable insights. Our platform empowers manufacturers to reduce downtime, optimize performance, and unlock efficiency gains. As we pursue aggressive year-over-year growth over the next three years, we’re growing a team of bold, thoughtful builders who are excited to help shape the future of manufacturing tech.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced and versatile Director of Marketing to lead both corporate and product marketing at Amper. This is a highly strategic, hands-on role that combines positioning, messaging, and go-to-market planning with broader brand, PR, and communications leadership.

The ideal candidate is a product-savvy strategist who thrives in early-stage, fast-paced environments and knows how to transform customer and market insights into compelling narratives and measurable outcomes. Reporting to the CEO as part of the senior leadership team, you will work cross-functionally with Product, Sales, and Customer Success to define our market presence, strengthen our product narrative, and fuel our go-to-market engine.

What You’ll Do…

• Translate product strategy and customer insights into compelling positioning and messaging
• Architect differentiated product narratives and customer-centric campaign themes
• Develop product marketing campaigns and cross-functional content strategies that fuel awareness and support demand generation efforts
• Equip the Sales team with high-impact playbooks, collateral, and enablement materials
• Establish Amper as a leading voice in smart manufacturing through thought leadership and brand-building efforts
• Own and evolve Amper’s marketing strategy across corporate and product marketing
• Build and scale customer storytelling programs, including case studies, testimonials, community engagement, and customer reference initiatives, to turn customers into brand advocates
• Define and drive messaging, positioning, and storytelling for new features and products
• Collaborate with Product on roadmap input, launch readiness, and user adoption
• Support product enablement initiatives that reinforce positioning and accelerate deal velocity
• Lead brand strategy, PR, communications, and content to support market leadership
• Partner with Demand Generation to align on KPIs and ensure product and brand marketing efforts contribute to pipeline and revenue goals
• Build and lead a high-performing marketing team, and manage agency/vendor relationships
• Manage marketing budgets, prioritize resource allocation, and optimize spend across programs to maximize ROI.
  
  

What You'll Bring...

• 8 years of B2B SaaS marketing experience, with depth in product marketing
• Demonstrated success building and scaling the marketing function in early-stage startups
• Track record of owning GTM product strategy, launching products, and generating pipeline - experience marketing to industrial, manufacturing, or OT/IT audiences, highly desired!
• Strong cross-functional collaborator, able to influence across teams and levels
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments, delivering results with focus and urgency
• Compelling storyteller with an ability to distill complex ideas into simple messages
• Experience with brand, PR, communications, and content strategy
• Analytical and metrics-oriented, with a bias toward action and iteration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfort presenting to leadership
  
  

Bonus Points For

• Background in platform marketing or hybrid GTM models (PLG enterprise)
• Prior experience in high-growth, VC-backed startups
  
  

Why Join Amper?

At Amper, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of manufacturing tech, lead key strategic initiatives as part of the senior leadership team, and build a high-impact marketing function. You will work alongside a team of bold, thoughtful builders who are passionate about helping customers unlock real efficiency gains. You will have the freedom, ownership, and support to make a measurable impact as we scale.

Compensation And Benefits

We offer a competitive total compensation package for this role that includes:

• Base salary
• Annual incentive bonus
• Early-stage (Series A) stock option equity
  
  

The range of annual base salary for full-time employees in this role is $150,000 to $170,000, depending on location (US-only), skills, experience, and job-related knowledge. In addition, we provide a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, unlimited paid time off, and more.