Marketing Director, Americas

Echodyne is hiring a Marketing Director, Americas to lead regional marketing across defense, government, critical infrastructure, and advanced air mobility markets in North, Central, and South America. The role reports to the Vice President of Marketing and works with sales, business development, product management, and executive leadership to support long-cycle technical sales. It is a hands-on leadership job at a company that makes compact solid-state beam-steering radar.

What you will do

• Develop and run integrated regional marketing programs for defense, federal civilian, critical infrastructure, and advanced air mobility markets across the Americas
• Create campaigns that raise market awareness, generate qualified engagement, and support complex technical sales cycles
• Lead customer-facing content: collateral, presentations, digital campaigns, thought leadership, case studies, event materials, and product messaging
• Turn complex technical concepts into clear messaging for customers, partners, and industry audiences
• Work with sales, business development, product, and sales enablement teams to align marketing with business priorities and pipeline goals
• Lead regional event strategy and execution, including trade shows, conferences, customer demonstrations, and partner engagements
• Support partner and ecosystem marketing with channel, technology, and strategic alliance partners
• Oversee digital marketing across web, email, outbound campaigns, and related demand generation
• Manage marketing operations workflows in Salesforce Account Engagement and related CRM and automation platforms
• Lead and mentor a small regional marketing team and coordinate external agencies, contractors, and vendors
• Track campaign performance, engagement metrics, and marketing effectiveness to adjust programs and resources

What they are looking for

• 10+ years of B2B marketing experience
• 4+ years in defense technology, aerospace, sensor, autonomy, or robotics industries
• 5+ years leading or mentoring marketing teams in fast-paced growth environments
• Demonstrated success supporting complex technical sales cycles and cross-functional go-to-market work
• Experience with integrated campaigns across digital, content, event, and partner marketing channels
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience supporting field marketing and large-scale industry events
• Hands-on experience with CRM and marketing automation platforms, including Salesforce Account Engagement or similar
• Ability to work in lean, fast-moving organizations with changing priorities
• Strong organizational and project management skills, managing multiple initiatives at once

Nice to have

• Marketing to U.S. defense, government, aerospace, autonomy, or critical infrastructure customers
• Regional or international marketing across the Americas
• Background in high-growth startups or scaling technology organizations
• Work with channel, reseller, or ecosystem partner marketing programs
• Familiarity with long-cycle procurement and technical B2B buying processes

Work environment

This is a hybrid role. The team is highly collaborative and cross-functional, in a fast-paced operational scale-up serving mission-critical customers. The structure is lean, so the job needs both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. Up to 40% travel is expected for customer engagements, industry events, and internal collaboration.

Pay and benefits

This is an exempt role. The expected annual salary range is $150,000 to $210,000 USD. Full-time, US-based employees get competitive compensation and benefits, including RSUs; fully-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums with a choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA; virtual care through 98Point6; an employee assistance program; mental health coverage through Springhealth and Talkspace (Premera); travel assistance insurance; company-paid life insurance; company-paid short and long term disability; flexible PTO for exempt roles; 401(k) match; pet insurance; a prepaid legal program; commuter benefits; and paid company holidays.

About Echodyne

Echodyne makes compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for industries including automotive, transportation, critical infrastructure protection, border security, smart cities, uncrewed aircraft systems, and airspace management including urban air mobility. The radars work in all weather and combine metamaterials technology with software. The company sells to companies working in those markets.

Export control

Echodyne's technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government, so the company must evaluate an applicant's eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required government authorizations. As part of the application, you will be asked to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum or refugee status in the U.S.

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.