About Neo4j:

Neo4j is the leader in Graph Database & Analytics, helping organizations uncover hidden patterns and relationships across billions of data connections deeply, easily, and quickly. Customers use Neo4j to gain a deeper understanding of their business and reveal new ways of solving their most pressing problems. Over 84% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j, along with a vibrant community of 250,000+ developers, data scientists, and architects across the globe.

At Neo4j, we’re proud to build the technology that powers breakthrough solutions for our customers. These solutions have helped NASA get to Mars two years earlier, broke the Panama Papers for the ICIJ, and are helping Transport for London to cut congestion by 10% and save $750M a year. Some of our other notable customers include Intuit, Lockheed Martin, Novartis, UBS, and Walmart.

Neo4j experienced rapid growth this year as organizations looking to deploy generative AI (GenAI) recognized graph databases as essential for improving its accuracy, transparency, and explainability. Growth was further fueled by enterprise demand for Neo4j’s cloud offering and partnerships with leading cloud hyperscalers and ecosystem leaders. Learn more at neo4j.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Our Vision:

At Neo4j, we have always strived to help the world make sense of data.

As business, society and knowledge become increasingly connected, our technology promotes innovation by helping organizations to find and understand data relationships. We created, drive and lead the graph database category, and we’re disrupting how organizations leverage their data to innovate and stay competitive.

Role Overview:

The Vice President of Product Marketing will guide and scale differentiated positioning and messaging that expands Neo4j’s business and strengthens its market leadership. As the company’s senior product marketing strategist and a key spokesperson, this role spans product and solution marketing, technology and AI platform marketing, competitive intelligence, and the development of clear messaging that enables PR, awareness, demand, and sales teams.

Reporting directly to the President of Technology & Chief Product Officer, this highly independent leader will guide strategy, scale the Product Marketing function with minimal supervision, and partner closely with executive leadership. The VP will own product positioning and messaging, equip partner teams with high-impact content and subject-matter expertise, and ensure consistent, market-shaping narratives across launches, campaigns, and sales materials—bringing deep product curiosity, strong leadership, and a proven track record in technology-led companies.

Responsibilities:

Be intellectually curious while understanding how our product functions and can come to a point-of-view on how to get the best message across
Promote a deep understanding of our users and customers, and help evangelize that understanding with leadership and partner teams
Define business goals, audiences, buyer’s journey, strategy, solutions, positioning, messaging, key tactics, budget, and dependencies, and then drive cross-functional consensus and enlistment to deliver business results.
Develop and own the critical user journeys across various market segments and personas
Partner with enablement to empower our sales and customer success team with playbooks, customer stories, competitive positioning and a strong feedback loop between sales and product.
Support Analyst, PR, awareness and demand initiatives with content, materials, and strategic messaging.
Nurture a strong team of product marketers who are strategic leaders and execution machines, and who can act as organizational drivers.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical field including engineering, computer science, mathematics or another relevant area of study
10 + years of product marketing or product management leadership experience. Experience in data infrastructure, data platforms and/or databases is highly desirable.
Ability to define and drive strategy as a partner with senior stakeholders
Technical acumen and demonstrated ability to understand complex products and functionality
Strong performance marketing experience within a hyper growth technology company
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills — both written and verbal
Proven competence in project management, experience with reporting, and exceptional attention to detail
Demonstrated organizational skills, as well as the ability to adapt to new conditions, assignments, and deadlines

Why Join Neo4j?

Neo4j is, without question, the most popular graph database in the world. We have customers in every industry globally, and our products are a proven product/market fit. Joining our team is an opportunity to shape the future of data and analytics. Below are just a few exciting facts about Neo4j.

Neo4j is one of the fastest-scaling technology companies in this industry. It recently surpassed $200M in annual recurring revenue (ARR), doubling its ARR over the past three years.
Raised the biggest funding round in database history ($325M Series F). Backed by world-class investors like Eurazeo, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Inovia Capital, Neo4j has raised over $600M in funding and is currently valued at over $2Bn. This puts Neo4j among the most well-funded database companies in history.
84% of the Fortune 100 and 58% of the Fortune 500 use Neo4j. Examples include Boston Scientific, BT Group, Caterpillar, Cisco, Comcast, Department for Education UK, eBay, NBC News, Novo Nordisk, Worldline, and others.
Co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem has built an amazing culture that prides itself on relationships, inclusiveness, innovation, and customer success.
Countless industry awards. Massive enterprises and individual developers/data scientists love Neo4j. A strong sense of community and ecosystem is built around the platform.
A recent Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study cited Neo4j as delivering 417% ROI to customers.
Neo4j was named as a Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems among 19 other recognized global DBMS vendors. Neo4j was also ranked as a Strong Performer among 14 top vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Vector Databases, Q3 2024.

Research shows that members of underrepresented communities are less likely to apply for jobs when they don’t meet all the qualifications. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we’d encourage you to reconsider and give us the opportunity to review your application. At Neo4j, we are committed to building awareness and helping to improve these issues.

One of our central objectives is to provide an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace for everyone to develop their potential and have a positive, career-defining experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Neo4j Values:

Neo4j is a Silicon Valley company with a Swedish soul. We foster collaboration and each of us is empowered to contribute and put our innovative stamp on projects. We hire candidates who reflect the following Neo4j core values:

(we)-[:VALUE]->(relationships)
(we)-[:FOCUS_ON]->(userSuccess)
(we)-[:THRIVE_IN]->(:Culture {type: [‘Open’, ‘Inclusive’]})
(we)-[:ASSUME]->(:Intent {direction:’Positive’})
(we)-[:WELCOME]->(:Discussions {nature: ‘IntellectuallyHonest’})
(we)-[:DELIVER_ON]->(ourCommitments)

Neo4j is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Please read the privacy notice regarding Neo4j's recruitment process to understand how we will handle the personal data that you provide.

More information at www.neo4j.com.

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