Director Or Vp - Corporate Marketing
Parallels, Inc (Seattle, Washington)

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Vice President (or Director), Corporate Marketing (Seattle, WA)

Want to join one of the fastest-growing, most innovative software companies in the world? Are you interested in taking on an exciting, challenging and rewarding leadership role at a pre-IPO, profitable company?

Join the company that is leading the innovation of virtualization and automation software on desktops and servers for consumers, businesses and service providers.

Recently named a Top 100 private company in the country by Red Herring, Parallels is looking to extend its market success from its current positions as the #1 in desktop virtualization, #1 in container-based server virtualization, and #1 in automation control panels.

Founded in 1999, Parallels offers a dynamic environment at a truly global company with over 900 employees, 10 million customers, and 800 partnerships including Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD, Dell, HP, and IBM.

Please visit www.parallels.com for more about our award-winning products and company.

Role Definition

We are looking for a uniquely talented leader, manager and marketer with a proven track record of rapidly increasing responsibility to join our team and lead corporate marketing, branding, advertising, cross-product marketing, and more. This exciting role offers significant room for future growth and reports to the Senior Vice President, Marketing and Online. He/she will also work closely with business unit marketing leaders and will have frequent interaction with our Chairman/CEO, who places very high value on the marketing function in general.

The responsibility for this important position is to lead and execute corporate marketing worldwide:

Drive overall marketing plan, budget and execution for your growing team Lead positioning of Parallels as a fast-growing, innovative company through creation and promotion of company vision, company messaging, and more Build the Parallels brand with consumers, businesses, service providers, and beyond by increasing awareness and preference both directly and through partners Determine results-oriented online and offline advertising strategy and campaigns with ad agencies and business unit marketers Drive high impact cross-product marketing, messaging programs, and initiatives Ensure strategic events and seminars lead to competitive advantage Grow the team in place with strong hires, clear direction, and effective mentorship Depending on background/interest, manage worldwide PR and analyst relations team including agencies globally in the US, UK, Germany, and beyond Depending on background/interest, manage web/design team including parallels.com Shape Parallels marketing vision and company strategy with other marketing leaders

Required Skills and Talents

Four-year college degree from a highly selective school Graduate degree preferred but not required Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in marketing or equivalent work experience at a successful software, high tech or other high growth company(ies) Proven strength and excellence in multiple core marketing functions including branding, advertising, positioning/messaging, and events Strong creativity, intellectual horsepower, interpersonal effectiveness, positive attitude, strong work ethic, high level of flexibility, able to work well with others, excellent writing skills, high quality standards, able to be hands on or delegate Proven leader, manager, recruiter, people developer/motivator/retainer Ability to thrive in a challenging, demanding and rapidly changing environment Potential to personally scale up as the business grows

Standout Compensation and Benefits

What’s in it for the right candidate?

Significant equity position through senior level stock option package Competitive salary and bonus 10 annual holidays and 18 additional days of paid time off Medical and dental coverage and 401k plan Relocation assistance available for the right candidate The unique opportunity to have a significant leadership impact at one of the world’s fastest growing software companies

For immediate consideration, please send compensation history and resume to careers@parallels.com. Important: The subject field of your email should include “VP Corporate Marketing”.

Thanks for considering Parallels, one of the world’s fastest growing software companies!