Field Marketing Specialist - India

Job description

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. ## The role in a nutshell: We are looking for a **Field Marketing Specialist, India** to support the growth of our India Go-To-Market team. This role will play a key part in executing our regional marketing strategy across India, working closely with the India Sales and Partner Sales teams, the APJ Field Marketing Director, and the broader GTM organisation. You will help build pipeline through integrated field and partner marketing programs, support regional events, and work with our partner ecosystem to execute local co-marketing activities that create awareness, engagement, and demand. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys working across Sales and partner teams. ## What You'll Do: - Support the planning, execution, and optimisation of integrated demand generation programs across India, including regional campaigns, events, digital programs, and account-focused activities. - Work closely with the India Partner Sales team and APJ Marketing to execute local partner campaigns, co-marketing programs, workshops, customer events, webinars, partner days, and other joint activities designed to generate demand and support partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline. - Support local activations including industry conferences, executive events, customer roundtables, partner events, meetups, webinars, and virtual experiences. Coordinate logistics, speaker preparation, KBYG documentation, onsite execution, and post-event follow-up. - Ensure effective tracking of leads and opportunities generated through India marketing programs. Partner with BDRs, Sales, Partner Sales, and Marketing Operations to drive timely follow-up and measure pipeline impact. - Manage relationships with local event agencies, production partners, digital agencies, vendors, and other third parties to ensure programs are delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard. - Track campaign performance and marketing KPIs using CRM and BI tools, reporting on pipeline contribution, partner influence, ROI, engagement, and opportunities for optimisation. ## What We're Looking For: - 3–5 years of marketing experience within a B2B technology company, ideally in cybersecurity, cloud, SaaS, cloud-native, DevOps, or developer tooling. - Experience supporting field marketing, demand generation, partner marketing, or regional marketing programs in India. - Strong project management and organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously. - Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Sales, Partner Sales, Marketing, Digital, Operations, and global teams. - Comfortable taking ownership and executing hands-on in a fast-paced, remote-first, high-growth environment. - Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. - Strong understanding of the India B2B technology landscape and how enterprise technology organisations go to market locally. - Willingness to travel approximately 20% across India and the broader region for events, partner activities, and team collaboration. ### About Us 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. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with [Chainguard's Global Candidate Privacy Notice](https://www.chainguard.dev/legal/candidate-privacy-notice). ©2026 Chainguard. All Rights Reserved.