The Director of Brand Strategy leads the development and governance of Dynatrace's global brand, ensuring consistent brand expression and alignment across all touchpoints, while driving brand strategy, campaigns, and internal engagement.
Your role at Dynatrace
The Director of Brand Strategy & Management will lead the development, execution, and governance of the global Dynatrace brand. This role defines how our brand shows up - across audiences, markets, and moments - ensuring we are consistently understood, remembered, and preferred in a crowded category.
This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping the brand strategy, evolving our brand architecture, and translating strategy into world-class campaign expressions in addition to building a brand management function to ensure that employees, partners, and vendors understand and consistently represent the Dynatrace brand in all visual and verbal expressions.
Key Responsibilities
• Brand Strategy & Positioning: Evolve and maintain a unified strategy that defines long-term direction and purpose of the brand and articulates what the brand stands for, who it serves, and its differentiation among competitors.
• Campaign Platform Leadership: Develop GTM plans for the brand to reinforce positioning and respond to competitive and cultural context
• Brand Architecture: Define and manage how products, capabilities, and innovations roll up into a cohesive brand system.
• Brand Governance: Partner with internal creative teams and agencies to ensure consistency in the brand expression: look, feel, voice, and tone across all touchpoints.
• Internal Brand Engagement: Ensure employees are aligned and inspired through clear brand storytelling; develop enablement tools and activation programs that drive employee alignment and advocacy
• Measurement & Optimization: Define and track brand health metrics and campaign effectiveness; translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate across product, demand generation, comms, customer marketing, and executive leadership to align brand efforts and amplify impact across the business.
What will help you succeed
Minimum Requirements :
• 10+ years of brand strategy experience, marketing, product marketing, or product management in B2B companies
Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Requirements
• Demonstrated success leading the development of brand go-to-market strategy and execution to make measurable positive impact on brand awareness and consideration
• Proven success developing and scaling brand strategies across multiple audiences
• Deep understanding of category dynamics in enterprise software, observability, or adjacent markets
• Exceptional strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills
• Experience managing global brands, with an eye for both consistency and local nuance
• Experience building and leading teams - or demonstrated readiness to take on team leadership - as the function scales
Why you will love being a Dynatracer
The Director of Brand Strategy & Management will lead the development, execution, and governance of the global Dynatrace brand. This role defines how our brand shows up - across audiences, markets, and moments - ensuring we are consistently understood, remembered, and preferred in a crowded category.
This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for shaping the brand strategy, evolving our brand architecture, and translating strategy into world-class campaign expressions in addition to building a brand management function to ensure that employees, partners, and vendors understand and consistently represent the Dynatrace brand in all visual and verbal expressions.
Key Responsibilities
• Brand Strategy & Positioning: Evolve and maintain a unified strategy that defines long-term direction and purpose of the brand and articulates what the brand stands for, who it serves, and its differentiation among competitors.
• Campaign Platform Leadership: Develop GTM plans for the brand to reinforce positioning and respond to competitive and cultural context
• Brand Architecture: Define and manage how products, capabilities, and innovations roll up into a cohesive brand system.
• Brand Governance: Partner with internal creative teams and agencies to ensure consistency in the brand expression: look, feel, voice, and tone across all touchpoints.
• Internal Brand Engagement: Ensure employees are aligned and inspired through clear brand storytelling; develop enablement tools and activation programs that drive employee alignment and advocacy
• Measurement & Optimization: Define and track brand health metrics and campaign effectiveness; translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate across product, demand generation, comms, customer marketing, and executive leadership to align brand efforts and amplify impact across the business.
What will help you succeed
Minimum Requirements :
• 10+ years of brand strategy experience, marketing, product marketing, or product management in B2B companies
Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Requirements
• Demonstrated success leading the development of brand go-to-market strategy and execution to make measurable positive impact on brand awareness and consideration
• Proven success developing and scaling brand strategies across multiple audiences
• Deep understanding of category dynamics in enterprise software, observability, or adjacent markets
• Exceptional strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills
• Experience managing global brands, with an eye for both consistency and local nuance
• Experience building and leading teams - or demonstrated readiness to take on team leadership - as the function scales
Why you will love being a Dynatracer
- A one-product software company creating real value for the largest enterprises and millions of end customers globally, striving for a world where software works perfectly.
- Working with the latest technologies and at the forefront of innovation in tech on scale; but also, in other areas like marketing, design, or research.
- A team that thinks outside the box, welcomes unconventional ideas, and pushes boundaries.
- An environment that fosters innovation, enables creative collaboration, and allows you to grow.
- A globally unique and tailor-made career development program recognizing your potential, promoting your strengths, and supporting you in achieving your career goals.
- A truly international mindset with Dynatracers from different countries & cultures all over the world, and English as the corporate language that connects us all
- A culture that is being shaped by the diverse personalities, expertise, and backgrounds of our global team.
Dynatrace Waltham, Massachusetts, USA Office
Just 11 miles west of Boston, you'll find the Dynatrace headquarters, placed outside the bustle of the city in the tech-hub of Waltham.
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