--- title: "Founding Product Marketing Manager" company: "Restate" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/restate" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/restate-founding-product-marketing-manager-4776e4a0-270a-400f-a809-893f02a153b9" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/restate/6d76699a-96ea-4a71-83f1-f92981a6a4fd" workplace: remote location: "United States" remote_scope: "United States" employment_type: full-time seniority: founding role: marketing-growth region: united-states skills: ["rust"] date_posted: 2026-06-29T00:44:47.244Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-26T15:15:01.984Z --- # Founding Product Marketing Manager **Restate** — United States Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/restate/6d76699a-96ea-4a71-83f1-f92981a6a4fd ## About Restate Restate is a lightweight runtime that lets developers build innately resilient distributed apps without the complexity tax. ## About the role #### The opportunity ##### Front-row seat to the biggest infrastructure shift in decades Durable runtimes are becoming a foundational component of modern software infrastructure — particularly for AI applications. As systems become increasingly agentic, long-running, integration-heavy, and failure-prone, durable execution turns reliability from a bespoke engineering tax into a default property. Restate ([restate.dev](http://restate.dev)) is helping define this category. As our first Product Marketing hire, you'll work directly with the founders and early team to shape how developers, platform teams, and AI-native companies understand durable execution and where Restate fits within the emerging AI infrastructure stack. This is a rare opportunity to define the narrative for a category before the market consensus exists. ##### Own the narrative for an emerging category Most developers still think of durable execution as workflow tooling or orchestration infrastructure. The reality is much larger. Durable execution is rapidly becoming a foundational primitive for AI agents, long-running processes, human-in-the-loop systems, and integration-heavy applications. The language, positioning, and mental models around this shift are still being written. You'll help write them. ##### State-of-the-art technology built from first principles Restate re-imagines durable execution as a lightweight, self-contained runtime that eliminates much of the operational complexity traditionally associated with workflow systems. A single Rust binary, custom storage engine, low-latency orchestration layer, and integrated observability stack allow developers to build resilient applications without introducing additional infrastructure dependencies. ##### Enterprise traction and AI-native momentum Restate is already powering critical production workloads at Fortune 500 enterprises, including Tier 1 financial institutions, while simultaneously gaining traction among AI-native startups building the next generation of agentic systems. You'll work at the intersection of reliability engineering, developer infrastructure, and AI systems — where correctness, durability, and operational simplicity are existential requirements rather than optimizations. #### What you'll do You'll own product marketing end-to-end with a center of gravity around AI infrastructure and AI-native applications. Responsibilities include: - Define and own positioning, messaging, and category narratives across durable execution, AI agents, orchestration, and long-running AI systems. - Develop competitive positioning that holds up in technical evaluations and enterprise procurement processes. - Own launches and major product moments end-to-end across cloud, open-source, and enterprise offerings. - Translate customer success into compelling case studies, technical narratives, and proof points that resonate with both builders and buyers. - Partner with founders and product leadership on packaging, pricing, and go-to-market strategy across Cloud, self-hosted, and BYOC offerings. - Create sales and community enablement material including technical content, battlecards, presentations, briefs, and objection handling. - Ensure messaging consistency across product, engineering, developer relations, and founder-led channels. - Act as the voice of the market by synthesizing customer feedback, competitive intelligence, and win/loss analysis into product and company strategy. #### What we're looking for ##### Strong product marketing fundamentals You've owned positioning and messaging for technical products and can demonstrate measurable impact from your work. ##### Technical credibility You can discuss AI infrastructure, agents, orchestration, and distributed systems in a way that resonates with engineers building production systems. ##### Exceptional communication skills You can distill complex technical concepts into narratives that are clear, memorable, and commercially effective. ##### Launch experience You've taken products or major features to market and understand how to create momentum around technical products. ##### AI fluency You actively use AI to improve your own workflows and understand how AI is reshaping discovery, evaluation, and buying behavior across developer audiences. ##### Builder mindset We're less interested in specific titles than in demonstrated capability. Strong candidates may come from infrastructure companies, developer tooling businesses, open source ecosystems, or adjacent technical markets. #### Location and travel - US-based and fully remote. - San Francisco Bay Area strongly preferred. - Expect approximately 15–25% travel for conferences, customer meetings, team off-sites, and community events. --- Source: Restate's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/restate-founding-product-marketing-manager-4776e4a0-270a-400f-a809-893f02a153b9