Industry Principal Messaging Strategy, Advisor at Zebra Technologies
Job Description
Remote Work: Yes
The Industry Principal Messaging Strategist collaborates closely with marketing, product development, creative, media, and account management teams to develop Zebra's point of view on our industry value propositions. This role will transform research and insights into clear, succinct and easy to understand foundational tools: positioning and portfolio architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Identifies the intersection of what is valuable to both the business and to the brand.
- Crafts and unifies Zebra's industry narrative, strategic messaging frameworks, and value propositions.
- Reviews analytics, spotting patterns and trends, drawing conclusions and recommending action.
- Partners closely with business and marketing partners to develop and present GTM and marketing plans that enables the business to achieve specific goals, pulling the strategies through executional tactics.
- Performs competitive and trend analysis.
- Evangelizes Zebra's vision internally and externally to customers and partners.
- Will be hands-on by directing strategy and deliverables to our standard of brand.
- Manages multiple moving projects at once while being proactive and organized.
- Keeping up with brand trends and culture, as well as maintaining knowledge of current communications landscape.
Qualifications:
Minimum Education:
• BA/BS or higher in Marketing, Communications, Jounalism or Business or equivalent work experience.
Minimum Work Experience (years):
• 10+ years brand experience in supervisory roles, preferably with SaaS, software, technology organizations.
• 10+ years of experience in brand consulting or with clients in-house.
• Equivalency: Candidates with 10+ years of equivalent work experience and a high school diploma or Candidates with 8+ years of equivalent work experience and a bachelors degree will be considered
Key Skills and Competencies:
• Must have SaaS software experience
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and visual
• Proven ability to work with multiple stakeholders and teams in a global organization while balancing multiple priorities and deadlines
• Ability to anticipate needs and take decisive action
• Understanding and experience in applying project management principles and ROI methodologies
• Strong eye for detail and quality
• Remain confident and resilient when challenged
Preferred Skills and Competencies:
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking with consulting mindset
- Industry subject matter expertise. Deep industry and channel knowledge preferred.
- Experience developing messaging frameworks and positioning strategies for global markets
- Persona development and solution mapping
- Industry thought leadership and public evangelism
- Public Speaking and media engagement
- Advanced market intelligence and trend analysis
- Performance analysis and data driven decision making
- Executive communication and reporting
- Internal enablement and stakeholder alignment
- Ability to collaborate and influence across teams

