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Backblaze is the object storage leader in the open cloud movement, fueling customer success with cloud storage built purposefully to unlock budgets, unburden administrators, and unleash innovators. Together with our partners, we’re helping customers break free from the restrictive, overpriced legacy solutions that hold them back, and blaze forward with the full power of the open cloud in their hands.
Founded in 2007, we scaled the business with less than $3 million in outside funding until 2021, when we did a traditional IPO on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Today, Backblaze generates over $100M in revenue and is the leading specialized storage cloud — managing over three billion gigabytes of data storage for 500K+ customers in 175+ countries, including businesses, developers, IT professionals, and individuals.
But while there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us. We’re seeking a Growth Marketing Director to join our team.
The Director of Growth owns the self-serve revenue engine end-to-end — from top-of-funnel acquisition strategy through product-led growth, activation, and expansion — and operates with cross-functional authority across Product, Engineering, Marketing Ops, and our paid acquisition agency. This is not a funnel repair job or a lifecycle marketing role. It’s a growth leadership role for someone who thinks first about where new users come from, and second about everything else.
This is a specific hire for a specific kind of company. We’re not looking for a generalist demand gen leader or a lifecycle marketer. We need someone who has been here before — at a developer-centric infrastructure company, building growth motion from a strong foundation into something structurally durable.
Dimension | What We’re Looking For |
Company background | Developer tools, cloud infrastructure, or IaaS. Your customer was technical. |
PLG ownership | You’ve built a PLG motion. You’ve designed product qualification logic, activation funnels, and self-serve to sales-led handoffs. |
Acquisition instinct | When you see flat signups, your first question is “where’s the traffic problem,” not “what email can we send.” |
Product sense | You can write a credible brief, push back on deprioritized engineering tickets, and build a business case for product investment without a PM. |
Developer channels | You understand Reddit, Hacker News, dev communities, technical content, GitHub presence, and DevRel-adjacent programs — not just as awareness plays, but as acquisition channels. |
Data fluency | You own numbers directly. You’re comfortable presenting signups, activation rates, and conversion alongside the strategy driving them. |
Influence without authority | You drive cross-functional action — engineering prioritization, agency direction, partner alignment — through partnership and persuasion, not org chart. |
Backblaze Perks:
To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials, and may vary from the amounts listed below.
At Backblaze, we value being fair and good to our customers, partners, and employees. That’s why diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of our values. We are committed to fostering a workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, socio-economic status, ability, veteran status, and education. We believe that our dedication to cultivating a diverse workspace not only allows us to better serve our customers in over 175 countries but further reinforces our commitment to doing the right thing. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Originally posted on Himalayas