Resume
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