Director, AI Platform Product Marketing

Deltek; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Deltek is transitioning to an AI-first platform for project-based businesses. The Director, AI Platform Product Marketing will craft a clear, credible narrative that resonates with customers, analysts, partners, and internal teams.

This leader will own the platform narrative and AI positioning across industries, collaborating across product, marketing, and engineering to ensure a cohesive Deltek story. They will translate complex architecture into compelling messaging, develop executive-ready

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product marketing, strategic communications, or analyst-facing roles in enterprise software.
• Demonstrated record of building platform or category narratives adopted across a large organization.
• Exceptional writing and storytelling; able to simplify complex technology without losing substance.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Deltek’s platform narrative: vision, problem it solves, how platform fits, and why it matters for project-based businesses.
• Define AI positioning across the portfolio and what Deltek says/ proves about AI.
• Translate architecture and roadmap decisions into executive, buyer, and practitioner messaging.
• Build core narrative assets: platform story, executive messaging, POV content, keynote tracks, and proof points.
• Equip sales and customer-facing teams with adaptable messaging across verticals and products.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and GMs to align platform story with roadmaps.
• Brief industry analysts and shape how they describe Deltek’s AI strategy.
• Coordinate with Corporate Marketing on campaigns, events, and web to show up in market.
• Gather customer and market evidence to sharpen the narrative and governance.

Skills

Product marketing

Strategic communications

Analyst-facing roles

Enterprise software

Platform narratives

Executive presentations

Job description

Role Summary

Deltek is moving from a portfolio of individual products to an integrated, AI-first platform for project-based businesses. The Director, AI Platform Product Marketing owns the story of that platform. This person turns a complex architecture and a fast-moving AI roadmap into a clear, credible narrative that customers, analysts, partners, and Deltek’s own teams can easily understand.

Role Summary

Deltek is moving from a portfolio of individual products to an integrated, AI-first platform for project-based businesses. The Director, AI Platform Product Marketing owns the story of that platform. This person turns a complex architecture and a fast-moving AI roadmap into a clear, credible narrative that customers, analysts, partners, and Deltek’s own teams can easily understand. This product marketing leader will own the platform narrative and AI positioning that connects them, working across every Deltek industry, not inside one, to create one Deltek story. Industry-aligned PMM leads own the buyer and products in each vertical and will work closely with this platform product marketer to ensure a cohesive story across the business, industries and products.

What You’ll Do

• Own and evolve Deltek’s platform narrative: the vision, the problem it solves, how the platform fits together, and why it matters to project-based businesses
• Define AI positioning across the portfolio, including what Deltek says about AI, what it proves, and what it deliberately does not claim
• Translate technical architecture and roadmap decisions into messaging that executives, buyers, and practitioners can understand
• Build the core narrative assets: the platform story, executive messaging framework, point-of-view content, keynote and executive talk tracks, and proof points
• Equip industry PMM leads, sales, and customer-facing teams with messaging they can adapt to their vertical, and keep it consistent as new products and releases ship
• Partner with Product Management and Engineering to stay ahead of the roadmap, and with the GMs so the platform story strengthens each business unit’s positioning
• Brief industry analysts and shape how they describe Deltek’s platform and AI strategy, in coordination with Analyst Relations
• Work with Corporate Marketing on campaigns, events, and web so the platform story shows up consistently in market
• Gather customer and market evidence, including adoption, outcomes, and competitive perception, and use it to sharpen the narrative
• Establish how the narrative is governed: terminology, naming, claims, and the process for updating it as the platform evolves

As the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, Deltek delivers software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. Our market leadership stems from the work of our diverse employees who are united by a passion for learning, growing and making a difference. At Deltek, we take immense pride in creating a balanced, values-driven environment, where every employee feels included and empowered to do their best work. Our employees put our core values into action daily, creating a one-of-a-kind culture that has been recognized globally. Thanks to our incredible team, Deltek has been named one of America's Best Midsize Employers by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, a Top Workplace by The Washington Post and a Best Place to Work in Asia by World HRD Congress.

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Deltek Product Strategy is a team with a passion for delivering solutions to power success for project-based businesses. We use research and innovation to build products and experiences that connect processes across the entire project lifecycle. We are thought leaders who have a deep understanding of our customers, their industries and the challenges they face. Join us as we bring Deltek solutions to the market to help our customers achieve operational excellence.

What You’ll Bring

• 10+ years in product marketing, strategic communications, or analyst-facing roles, with significant experience in enterprise software, ideally platform, data, or AI products
• A demonstrated record of building platform or category narratives that were adopted across a large organization
• Exceptional writing and storytelling, with examples that show you can make complex technology simple without making it shallow
• The credibility to work with engineers and architects, and the judgment to know which technical details belong in the story and which don’t
• Experience presenting to executives, customers, and analysts, and shaping messaging for senior leaders
• Comfort with ambiguity and with influencing without authority across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and business unit leadership
• Strong command of the AI landscape, including how buyers evaluate AI claims, and sound judgment about credible versus inflated positioning

Preferred

• Experience with ERP, project-based, or vertical software, or with government contracting or professional services buyers
• Experience positioning a platform that integrates previously separate products
• Prior work with industry analysts such