Senior Director of Product Marketing

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). The company has raised ~$240M in Series E venture funding, is valued at $5.5B, and backed by top investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures and more. Harness is building the industry’s leading AI-powered software delivery platform, enabling teams worldwide to build, test, and deliver software faster, safer, and more reliably. Writing code is only 30–40% of the engineering lifecycle — the rest involves testing, deployments, security, compliance, and optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop, turning complex, time-consuming workflows into streamlined processes at massive global scale.

The platform includes industry leading products in CI/CD, Feature Flags, Cloud Cost Management, Service Reliability, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights, Internal Developer Experience, and API discovery, observability, governance, and runtime protection. Over the past year, Harness powered 128M deployments, 81M builds, 1.2T API calls protected, and $1.9B in cloud spend optimized, helping customers like United Airlines and Choice Hotels accelerate releases by up to 75% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With employees in over 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI-driven software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

The Senior Director of Product Marketing – AI for Testing & Resilience and AI for Cost & Optimization is a senior leadership role responsible for one of Harness’s largest and fastest-growing businesses, driving tens of millions of dollars in pipeline and revenue.

You will operate as both a people leader and a hands-on product marketing leader, managing a team of PMMs while also serving as the individual contributor owner for key flagship products. This role reports to the Chief Marketing Officer and partners closely with Product, Sales, Analyst Relations, and executive leadership across the company.

This is a build-and-evolve role, not a maintenance role. You will help shape how product marketing operates as Harness continues to scale its AI-native platform.

About the role

Own company-level value drivers

Define and evolve the positioning and narrative for AI for Testing & Resilience and AI for Cost & Optimization

Establish clear “why we win” messaging across products, personas, and buying motions

Influence roadmap prioritization, launch sequencing, and go-to-market strategy

Ensure alignment across product, sales, marketing, and executive leadership

Individual contributor ownership of strategic products
As an IC, you will directly own product marketing for:

Chaos Engineering

AI SRE

AI Test Automation

This includes:

Positioning and messaging

Go-to-market strategy and launches

Competitive differentiation

Sales enablement and field readiness

Customer proof points, demos, and case studies

You are expected to be a subject-matter expert and a trusted voice internally and externally.

People leadership and PMM org ownership

Manage and develop a team of PMMs across:

Feature Management & Experimentation (FME)

Software Engineering Insights (SEI)

Cloud Cost Management (CCM)

Set priorities, coach performance, and raise the bar on PMM craft and impact

Ensure consistency and cohesion across narratives, launches, and GTM execution

Scale the team and operating model as the business grows

Pipeline, revenue, and GTM impact

Drive pipeline creation, expansion, and competitive displacement across owned value drivers

Partner closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Field Marketing

Ensure launches translate into adoption, usage, and revenue

Treat content, demos, and events as revenue-driving assets

External and market leadership

Serve as a public-facing leader through customer conversations, events, and thought leadership

Partner closely with Analyst Relations on narrative development and briefings

About you

12+ years of experience in product marketing, with senior leadership experience in B2B SaaS

Proven ability to own large product portfolios or company-level value drivers

Comfortable operating as both a people manager and an individual contributor

Strong executive-ready communication and storytelling skills

Deep empathy for technical buyers (SREs, DevOps, Platform, FinOps, and Engineering leaders)

Experience driving GTM strategy tied directly to pipeline and revenue outcomes

Highly organized, opinionated, and execution-focused

Nice to have

Experience with DevOps platforms, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, or FinOps

Background in AI-native or data-driven products

Experience partnering with Analyst Relations and executive stakeholders

Work Location

Remote within the U.S or Hybrid from one of our U.S offices (San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, NYC)

What you will have at Harness

Competitive salary

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Flexible work schedule

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave

Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events

Monthly internet reimbursement

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $230,000 and $255,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations.

The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:

https://www.harness.io/company/careers .

Pay transparency

$230,000

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$255,000 USD
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

If you believe that you have been the target of an interview/offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at

security@harness.io . You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website ( https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams) , or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.