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Dan Bettinger, MBA

Principal Product Marketing Manager

Enterprise cloud platforms | Kubernetes | Security

Austin, Texas | 512-415-4013 | dan.bettinger@gmail.com

Professional summary

Principal product marketing manager specializing in enterprise cloud platforms, Kubernetes, and security. Leads cross-functional teams through influence and connects buyer research and positioning to launches, sales enablement, and commercial results. Brings experience in product management and enterprise sales.

Career highlights

  • IBM: Doubled marketing-sourced revenue for a cloud-native development campaign over one year.
  • J.P. Morgan: CRM-attributed 180% year-over-year growth in marketing-sourced Onyx inbound leads.
  • Red Hat: Started the Product Marketing and AI Guild. The community now has 190+ members.

Core expertise

Positioning and messaging | Go-to-market strategy | Product launches | Market research | Sales and channel enablement | Partner and developer marketing | Cross-functional leadership | AI-assisted marketing

Professional experience

Red Hat

Principal Product Marketing Manager

December 2023 - Present

OpenShift | Kubernetes management, security, and sovereignty

  • Own product marketing for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, connecting product messaging with launches and field enablement.
  • Lead a nine-person matrixed product and technical marketing team. Set shared objectives, align work to goals, and coordinate launches, sales and channel enablement, presentations, and technical demos.
  • Own security and sovereignty messaging across business units. Maintain accurate messaging and update the narrative as market conditions change.
  • Conceived and commissioned Red Hat's 2026 Kubernetes fleet management study and wrote the survey questions. Secured funding and management support after a year of advocacy for buyer benchmarking and field-marketing content.
  • Started Red Hat's Product Marketing and AI Guild the day after receiving Google Gemini access. The community now has 190+ members.
  • Created and shared more than 50 AI skills, including tools for partner messaging and simulated message reviews. Built a catalog for colleagues to share them.

J.P. Morgan

Senior Product Marketing Manager

September 2021 - November 2023

Onyx | World's first bank-led blockchain platform

  • Developed the platform story and go-to-market campaigns for the world's first bank-led blockchain platform, Onyx. CRM attributed 180% year-over-year growth in marketing-sourced inbound leads to those campaigns.
  • Created landing pages, hosted assets, outbound emails, three explainer videos, and LinkedIn posts to bring the revised messaging to prospects.

IBM

Cloud-Native Product Marketing

July 2018 - September 2021

IBM Cloud portfolio

Promoted to Program Director in January 2019

  • Doubled marketing-sourced revenue attributed to the "Build New Cloud Native Applications" campaign over one year by rebuilding its narrative, prospecting emails, supporting assets, and landing pages.
  • Led a 13-person matrixed team. Directed cloud-native positioning and developer campaigns, built and hosted the IBM Cloud Podcast, and created messaging for developers and IT executives.
  • Led marketing partnerships with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Fortanix, and Mendix, and supported IBM's KubeCon presence in North America and Europe.

Dell EMC

Senior Product Manager

March 2016 - June 2018

Ready Solutions and Alliances

  • Designed, built, and marketed a development kit that helped independent software vendors and systems integrators create solutions for private cloud, big data, AI, and IoT.

VMware

Consulting Sales Executive

November 2014 - January 2016

DevOps and Open Cloud Practice; joined through the MomentumSI acquisition

  • Sold DevOps, cloud, and cloud-native application consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and cloud service providers. Built strategic partner relationships at MomentumSI before the VMware acquisition.

Education

Master of Business Administration

Texas State University | San Marcos, Texas

Bachelor of Arts, International Studies

Fairfield University | Fairfield, Connecticut

Portfolio

Selected work and portfolio

Let's talk

Discuss a senior principal product marketing role.

I bring experience in enterprise cloud and security messaging, buyer research, and leadership across teams.