Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

Position Summary

The Senior Director of Product Marketing – AI for Testing & Resilience and AI for Cost & Optimization is a senior leadership role responsible for one of Harness’s largest and fastest-growing businesses, driving tens of millions of dollars in pipeline and revenue.

You will operate as both a people leader and a hands-on product marketing leader, managing a team of PMMs while also serving as the individual contributor owner for key flagship products. This role reports to the Chief Marketing Officer and partners closely with Product, Sales, Analyst Relations, and executive leadership across the company.

This is a build-and-evolve role, not a maintenance role. You will help shape how product marketing operates as Harness continues to scale its AI-native platform.

About The Role

Own company-level value drivers

• Define and evolve the positioning and narrative for AI for Testing & Resilience and AI for Cost & Optimization
• Establish clear “why we win” messaging across products, personas, and buying motions
• Influence roadmap prioritization, launch sequencing, and go-to-market strategy
• Ensure alignment across product, sales, marketing, and executive leadership
  
  

Individual contributor ownership of strategic products

As an IC, you will directly own product marketing for:

• Chaos Engineering
• AI SRE
• AI Test Automation
  
  

This Includes

• Positioning and messaging
• Go-to-market strategy and launches
• Competitive differentiation
• Sales enablement and field readiness
• Customer proof points, demos, and case studies
  
  

You are expected to be a subject-matter expert and a trusted voice internally and externally.

People leadership and PMM org ownership

• Manage and develop a team of PMMs across:
• Feature Management & Experimentation (FME)
• Software Engineering Insights (SEI)
• Cloud Cost Management (CCM)
• Set priorities, coach performance, and raise the bar on PMM craft and impact
• Ensure consistency and cohesion across narratives, launches, and GTM execution
• Scale the team and operating model as the business grows
  

Pipeline, revenue, and GTM impact

• Drive pipeline creation, expansion, and competitive displacement across owned value drivers
• Partner closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Field Marketing
• Ensure launches translate into adoption, usage, and revenue
• Treat content, demos, and events as revenue-driving assets
  
  

External and market leadership

• Serve as a public-facing leader through customer conversations, events, and thought leadership
• Partner closely with Analyst Relations on narrative development and briefings
  
  

About You

• 12+ years of experience in product marketing, with senior leadership experience in B2B SaaS
• Proven ability to own large product portfolios or company-level value drivers
• Comfortable operating as both a people manager and an individual contributor
• Strong executive-ready communication and storytelling skills
• Deep empathy for technical buyers (SREs, DevOps, Platform, FinOps, and Engineering leaders)
• Experience driving GTM strategy tied directly to pipeline and revenue outcomes
• Highly organized, opinionated, and execution-focused
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with DevOps platforms, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, or FinOps
• Background in AI-native or data-driven products
• Experience partnering with Analyst Relations and executive stakeholders
  
  

Work Location

• Remote within the U.S or Hybrid from one of our U.S offices (San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, Boston, NYC)
  
  

What you will have at Harness

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement
  
  

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $230,000 and $255,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position also includes a commission/variable component, which is based on performance, plus equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.harness.io/company/careers.

Pay transparency

$230,000—$255,000 USD

Harness In The News

• Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
• Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
• How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal
• Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
• Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success
  
  

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers

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Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

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