Senior Field Marketing Manager, Middle East & Africa

The role

You will own and execute the regional field marketing strategy for the Middle East and Africa. You will drive demand and pipeline growth by partnering with sales, channel partners, and the EMEA marketing team.

What you will do

• Develop and execute integrated marketing plans aligned to Middle East and Africa pipeline and revenue targets
• Drive full funnel demand generation across priority accounts and key market segments
• Deliver field marketing programs including executive roundtables, events, conferences, webinars, and partner activations
• Localise and amplify global campaigns for regional audiences
• Partner with Sales teams to identify and activate Tier 1 and strategic accounts
• Build targeted, multi touch campaigns to support enterprise buying journeys
• Build and execute joint marketing programmes with Channel Partners
• Support pan EMEA campaigns, events, and strategic initiatives
• Track and analyse pipeline contribution, engagement, and ROI metrics
• Build scalable processes and frameworks to support regional growth

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in field marketing, demand generation, or regional marketing within B2B technology
• Experience developing and executing regional marketing programs across Middle East and Africa markets
• Proven experience building and growing channel led marketing programmes
• Strong collaboration skills with Sales, SDR/BDR, Channel Partners, and Channel teams
• Data driven mindset with experience using marketing metrics, attribution, and insights
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• A builder mentality to operate in a fast paced, high growth environment
• Willingness to travel approximately 25% across the region

Nice to have

• Experience in security, cloud, or developer tools
• Strong understanding of UAE, Saudi Arabia and South Africa markets
• Experience within a B2B technology or channel partner ecosystem
• Fluency in Arabic
• Understanding of the cloud native, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security landscape

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture
• Team meetup opportunities
• Bi-annual destination summits
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
• Stock options upon hire and promotion
• Participation in secondary offerings
• 10 years to exercise options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for employees and dependents
• Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents

About the company

Chainguard is a venture-backed source for open source that delivers hardened, secure, and production-ready builds. Their customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders.