Field Marketing Specialist - India

<div class="content-intro"><p>Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. <br><br>Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. <br><br>Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.</p></div><h2>The role in a nutshell: </h2> <p>We are looking for a <strong>Field Marketing Specialist, India</strong> to support the growth of our India Go-To-Market team. This role will play a key part in executing our regional marketing strategy across India, working closely with the India Sales and Partner Sales teams, the APJ Field Marketing Director, and the broader GTM organisation.</p> <p>You will help build pipeline through integrated field and partner marketing programs, support regional events, and work with our partner ecosystem to execute local co-marketing activities that create awareness, engagement, and demand.</p> <p>This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, enjoys working across Sales and partner teams.</p> <h2>What You'll Do:</h2> <ul> <li>Support the planning, execution, and optimisation of integrated demand generation programs across India, including regional campaigns, events, digital programs, and account-focused activities.</li> <li>Work closely with the India Partner Sales team and APJ Marketing to execute local partner campaigns, co-marketing programs, workshops, customer events, webinars, partner days, and other joint activities designed to generate demand and support partner-sourced and partner-influenced pipeline.</li> <li>Support local activations including industry conferences, executive events, customer roundtables, partner events, meetups, webinars, and virtual experiences. Coordinate logistics, speaker preparation, KBYG documentation, onsite execution, and post-event follow-up.</li> <li>Ensure effective tracking of leads and opportunities generated through India marketing programs. Partner with BDRs, Sales, Partner Sales, and Marketing Operations to drive timely follow-up and measure pipeline impact.</li> <li>Manage relationships with local event agencies, production partners, digital agencies, vendors, and other third parties to ensure programs are delivered on time, on budget, and to a high standard.</li> <li>Track campaign performance and marketing KPIs using CRM and BI tools, reporting on pipeline contribution, partner influence, ROI, engagement, and opportunities for optimisation.</li> </ul> <h2>What We're Looking For:</h2> <ul> <li>3–5 years of marketing experience within a B2B technology company, ideally in cybersecurity, cloud, SaaS, cloud-native, DevOps, or developer tooling.</li> <li>Experience supporting field marketing, demand generation, partner marketing, or regional marketing programs in India.</li> <li>Strong project management and organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously.</li> <li>Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally across Sales, Partner Sales, Marketing, Digital, Operations, and global teams.</li> <li>Comfortable taking ownership and executing hands-on in a fast-paced, remote-first, high-growth environment.</li> <li>Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.</li> <li>Strong understandin