Aerospace & Defense Growth Marketing Specialist

RTI is seeking a Marketing Specialist to create and execute marketing programs to help build the RTI brand, increase awareness, and generate pipeline for our Aerospace & Defense (A&D) business. We are looking for someone who is creative, proactive, collaborative, and analytical – with a passion for defense technology.  In this role, you’ll report to senior A&D marketing leadership, and work across Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and Product to keep campaigns and deliverables moving –  from idea to launch to results.

This is a hands-on, project management role for someone who thrives on building, executing, and measuring multi-channel campaigns. The ideal candidate will have strong writing and editing skills, is an expert communicator, and thrives on getting stuff done. From drafting and editing content, to supporting tradeshow activities, to driving partner marketing initiatives, you will have a front row seat to how RTI runs a smarter world.

✨ What You’ll Do 

• Execute multi-channel A&D marketing campaigns and programs across email, web, digital, events, webinars, and social to drive pipeline creation and support business goals.
• Build and maintain collaborative relationships across Sales, Business DevelopmentBD, Marketing and Product teams to coordinate input and drive priority initiatives forward.
• Project-manage cross-functional campaigns and marketing initiatives by coordinating stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables to ensure streamlined execution.
• Plan and execute targeted customer events, such as A&D Industry Days and Supplier Days, including logistics, promotion, stakeholder coordination, and post-event follow-up.
• Build and maintain sales enablement content, including industry-specific presentations, customer-ready slides, and supporting collateral used in meetings, campaigns, and events.
• Strengthen RTI’s A&D thought leadership and event presence by drafting, editing, and polishing A&D assets and messaging, including speaking abstracts, event messaging, customer presentations, one-pagers, and supporting collateral.
• Monitor and report on campaign engagement and key performance metrics; share recommendations for improvements and next steps.
• Provide Account Based Marketing (ABM) support by helping execute targeted account campaigns.
• Support budget tracking and vendor coordination for A&D programs as needed.
• Ensure timely prioritization and deployment of initiatives by maintaining clear status, risks, and action items across workstreams.
• Travel Requirement: Some travel required to industry tradeshows, corporate offices and/or customer sites (~6x / year)

🎯 What We’re Looking For 

• 3+ years of experience in a defense / high-tech B2B marketing role (software experience a plus)
• Strong project management skills and the ability to drive work forward with multiple stakeholders
• Established track record of successfully executing campaigns across channels (events/webinars, email, content, paid media, web, etc.)
• Excellent writing, editing, and slide-building skills (you can turn rough input into customer-ready assets)
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and communicating clearly with marketing partners, Sales/BD, and technical SMEs
• Experience working with Salesforce/CRM platforms a plus
• Familiarity with ABM concepts and tools (e.g., 6sense, Demandbase, ZoomInfo)
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or comparable education/experience

💎 Nice To Have 

• A passion for developing multi-channel marketing plans 
• Experience working across a variety of marketing channels and knowledge of how to effectively leverage these channels (e.g., product marketing, content marketing, advertising, public relations, email marketing, SEM, social media, events, etc.)
• Eager to contribute and grow in a dynamic, growing company
• Flexibility and a sense of humor

Don’t meet every single requirement? At RTI, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align with all qualifications in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may be just the right candidate for this or another one of our open roles. Learn more about RTI’s Diversity initiatives here!

🌟 What We Offer You

• Flexible working schedule 
• Remote working + Home Office Stipend to cover the costs of working from home
• Private health and dental insurance 
• Flexible Paid Time Off + “Real Vacation Bonus”, an additional bonus for taking more than 1-week of uninterrupted vacation
• Annual bonus based on individual and company performance + other prizes and awards 

💙 How is life at RTI

• We live and work by our core values, which emphasize excellence, teamwork, and reaching  your potential. Our motto is “Enjoy the journey”, above all we must enjoy what we do and have fun at work. 
• We recognize employees for their achievements, offer great opportunities for career growth and development, and provide the tools they need to succeed.
• We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for seven consecutive years both in Spain and the US. In addition, we have been rated as one of the Healthiest Companies in the Bay Area, and listed as one of the Best Companies for Women to Advance. 
• We cultivate a fun environment and promote face to face interaction. We hold the Company Kick Off (CKO) once a year, a large event in which the company flies all employees to the Silicon Valley office for a week full of team building,  employee recognition, and opportunities to simply enjoy colleagues. We have also implemented our "Team Weeks", these happen a few times a year and all members from related teams get together in one of our office locations, either in Spain or US (California or Colorado), for a week of face-to-face meetings, training, fun activities, lunches, conversations and shared experiences.

🌍 What We Do

Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is the data-streaming company for intelligent distributed systems. RTI Connext® software is the critical nervous system for over 2,000 designs across Aerospace and Defense, MedTech, Automotive, and Robotics. Connext is the only real-time data streaming platform that can both control demanding physical systems and integrate them with cloud applications. RTI helps organizations develop, deploy, and scale intelligence and physical AI from edge to cloud, faster. RTI Runs a Smarter World™. Learn more at www.rti.com. RTI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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