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Remote channel marketing specialist jobs are open across software, technology, and consumer goods companies, from coordinator-level roles at remote-first SaaS firms to senior specialist positions on distributed partner marketing teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include Headway (NY), Logitech, and 8x8. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About the Position
WatchGuard Technologies is looking for an innovative, strategic, and passionate Global Director of Field and Channel Marketing who will be responsible for successfully leading the company’s Field, Partner, and Events Marketing organization. Our top candidate will have the talent and passion for continuing to drive our great channel partner ecosystem by creating, delivering, and executing integrated marketing programs that lead to quality pipeline, partner recruitment and partner growth. As part of the Revenue Marketing Team at WatchGuard, this candidate will lead a talented team and play a critical role on the marketing team and the broader GTM team. This individual will leverage their business and sales acumen, technology expertise, and strategic marketing skills to support the growth objectives of our partner team, driving adoption and usage of our products and services and improving new logo acquisition as well as overall customer and partner satisfaction, retention, and advocacy.
A Day in the Life
A day in the life of the Global Director of Field and Channel Marketing will likely start with checking in with various teams such as sales leadership, leadership counterparts across the marketing organization or your direct team. You will meet with the global Sales leads to discuss and set priorities as well as discuss pipeline performance and opportunities for impact. You will discuss current budgets, ongoing projects and any challenges that are occurring with specific partners including the steps to resolution. You will then assist and provide guidance to your team on any specific projects including building marketing plans, event strategy and planning, MDF budget recommendations, and thought leadership for our partners. You will foster a culture of global and regional knowledge sharing across your teams as well as chat with the other members of marketing leadership to discuss new tools and processes and collaborate on opportunities to optimize and mitigate challenges. You will hold regular team meeting to discuss team and companywide initiatives such as new tools available, quarterly and trimester goal, and health metrics and to connect the dots on these initiatives and the teams’ daily tasks. You will meet with and work directly with top partners, as well as help your team build short and long-term engagement plans for top partners in their territories. You will close out your day working on some IC projects including building new processes and opportunities for improvement, budget management, sales enablement initiatives and setting your goals and actions for the next day.
Position Responsibilities
- Manage the global Field, Partner, and Events Marketing organizations. Create and implement an integrated marketing plan that starts with a clear view of priorities, an alignment with sales strategy and a solid understanding of the market trends within specific product lines and customer and partner market segments.
- Passion for developing deep relationships within our ecosystem and providing the best partner experience. Work collaboratively with our sales teams, channel partners, and distributors to develop and deliver innovative, end-user marketing programs that generate demand for our partners and ultimately result in new logo acquisition. Publish and monitor results, learnings and
best practices with key stakeholders and partner, as well as adjust plans and priorities to stay focused and efficient.
- Deliver innovative, partner acquisition marketing programs that drive awareness, new partner engagements, and deliver new partner to our ecosystem. Work with our sales and ABX teams to build and execute strategic ABX plans to assist in growth and accelerate pipeline from key target accounts.
- Introduce new processes, cutting edge marketing trends, and best practices to evangelize with our partners as thought leadership as well as implement at WatchGuard to help scale the business.
- Translate the overall annual marketing plan and goals into actionable quarterly targets, goals, initiatives, and metrics for the region as well as advocate for new company and marketing org practices, processes, and tools.
- Lead the strategic events team in executing an offline and online event strategy that meets corporate and field objectives e. g. leads to Sales, awareness, advance major accounts, Industry/trade/User group, company, and partner events.
- Maintain an overarching marketing plan the encapsulates the teams to and thru partner marketing activities including a 90-day rolling calendar of integrated activities and events
- Work with the greater marketing team to arm sales teams and partners with tailored content support to leverage in customer and partner outreach and engagement.
- Work with Channel/Field Marketing and Sales Management to reach agreement on budget for the year, quarterly program spending, and objectives. Manage the tracking, reporting, and forecasting of team spend. Follow and advocate for accounting practices and requirements to insure accurate and timely vendor management.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Experience with channel marketing with a deep understanding of channel and distribution.
- Experience developing direct marketing, and demand generation programs, with in depth knowledge of on-line and email marketing. An understanding of Account Based Experience including experience partnering with sales on their account-based approach.
- Experience building deep partner relationships including developing and implementing marketing plans that include measurements of success as well as experience with event planning and execution.
- Concise and accurate budget management across the region; Including ownership, management and reporting of MDF spend and planning and reporting of marketing budget, accrual, and expenditure.
- Experience with building systems and processes to enable scale.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing high performing teams
- Dynamic, results-oriented personality that works well with others and can drive projects forward amidst multiple shifting priorities and goals in a matrixed organization.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong project management and organizational skills as well as strong written and verbal communications. Proven ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Experience using CRM systems, Salesforce.com preferred
- 10+ years of proven work experience with an ideal mix of marketing, strategic, technical, and business background
- BA/BS degree preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Able to travel up to 50% when required.
Location: Seattle, WA, Miami, Florida, Cork, Ireland, or remote within the US.
Why Work for WatchGuard?
WatchGuard is a global leader in network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Our award-winning products and services are trusted worldwide by more than 18,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers. Our technology keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers and has fueled record revenues at WatchGuard.
WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with team members working remotely and in offices worldwide.
Our company culture places an intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our Core Values: Accountability, Community, Belonging, Action, Innovation, and Customer-Centric. Learn more about our company culture at www.watchguard.com/wgrd-careers.
WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees, regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, age, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, mental or physical disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy focuses solely on the talent, hard work, contributions, and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristics rather than on talent, hard work, and actual work results to violate our EEO policy. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-verify.
WatchGuard is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
About the Position
WatchGuard Technologies is looking for an innovative, strategic, and passionate Global Director of Field and Channel Marketing who will be responsible for successfully leading the company’s Field, Partner, and Events Marketing organization. Our top candidate will have the talent and passion for continuing to drive our great channel partner ecosystem by creating, delivering, and executing integrated marketing programs that lead to quality pipeline, partner recruitment and partner growth. As part of the Revenue Marketing Team at WatchGuard, this candidate will lead a talented team and play a critical role on the marketing team and the broader GTM team. This individual will leverage their business and sales acumen, technology expertise, and strategic marketing skills to support the growth objectives of our partner team, driving adoption and usage of our products and services and improving new logo acquisition as well as overall customer and partner satisfaction, retention, and advocacy.
A Day in the Life
A day in the life of the Global Director of Field and Channel Marketing will likely start with checking in with various teams such as sales leadership, leadership counterparts across the marketing organization or your direct team. You will meet with the global Sales leads to discuss and set priorities as well as discuss pipeline performance and opportunities for impact. You will discuss current budgets, ongoing projects and any challenges that are occurring with specific partners including the steps to resolution. You will then assist and provide guidance to your team on any specific projects including building marketing plans, event strategy and planning, MDF budget recommendations, and thought leadership for our partners. You will foster a culture of global and regional knowledge sharing across your teams as well as chat with the other members of marketing leadership to discuss new tools and processes and collaborate on opportunities to optimize and mitigate challenges. You will hold regular team meeting to discuss team and companywide initiatives such as new tools available, quarterly and trimester goal, and health metrics and to connect the dots on these initiatives and the teams’ daily tasks. You will meet with and work directly with top partners, as well as help your team build short and long-term engagement plans for top partners in their territories. You will close out your day working on some IC projects including building new processes and opportunities for improvement, budget management, sales enablement initiatives and setting your goals and actions for the next day.
Position Responsibilities
- Manage the global Field, Partner, and Events Marketing organizations. Create and implement an integrated marketing plan that starts with a clear view of priorities, an alignment with sales strategy and a solid understanding of the market trends within specific product lines and customer and partner market segments.
- Passion for developing deep relationships within our ecosystem and providing the best partner experience. Work collaboratively with our sales teams, channel partners, and distributors to develop and deliver innovative, end-user marketing programs that generate demand for our partners and ultimately result in new logo acquisition. Publish and monitor results, learnings and
best practices with key stakeholders and partner, as well as adjust plans and priorities to stay focused and efficient.
- Deliver innovative, partner acquisition marketing programs that drive awareness, new partner engagements, and deliver new partner to our ecosystem. Work with our sales and ABX teams to build and execute strategic ABX plans to assist in growth and accelerate pipeline from key target accounts.
- Introduce new processes, cutting edge marketing trends, and best practices to evangelize with our partners as thought leadership as well as implement at WatchGuard to help scale the business.
- Translate the overall annual marketing plan and goals into actionable quarterly targets, goals, initiatives, and metrics for the region as well as advocate for new company and marketing org practices, processes, and tools.
- Lead the strategic events team in executing an offline and online event strategy that meets corporate and field objectives e. g. leads to Sales, awareness, advance major accounts, Industry/trade/User group, company, and partner events.
- Maintain an overarching marketing plan the encapsulates the teams to and thru partner marketing activities including a 90-day rolling calendar of integrated activities and events
- Work with the greater marketing team to arm sales teams and partners with tailored content support to leverage in customer and partner outreach and engagement.
- Work with Channel/Field Marketing and Sales Management to reach agreement on budget for the year, quarterly program spending, and objectives. Manage the tracking, reporting, and forecasting of team spend. Follow and advocate for accounting practices and requirements to insure accurate and timely vendor management.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Experience with channel marketing with a deep understanding of channel and distribution.
- Experience developing direct marketing, and demand generation programs, with in depth knowledge of on-line and email marketing. An understanding of Account Based Experience including experience partnering with sales on their account-based approach.
- Experience building deep partner relationships including developing and implementing marketing plans that include measurements of success as well as experience with event planning and execution.
- Concise and accurate budget management across the region; Including ownership, management and reporting of MDF spend and planning and reporting of marketing budget, accrual, and expenditure.
- Experience with building systems and processes to enable scale.
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing high performing teams
- Dynamic, results-oriented personality that works well with others and can drive projects forward amidst multiple shifting priorities and goals in a matrixed organization.
- Highly detail-oriented with strong project management and organizational skills as well as strong written and verbal communications. Proven ability to meet deadlines under pressure.
- Experience using CRM systems, Salesforce.com preferred
- 10+ years of proven work experience with an ideal mix of marketing, strategic, technical, and business background
- BA/BS degree preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Able to travel up to 50% when required.
Location: Seattle, WA, Miami, Florida, Cork, Ireland, or remote within the US.
Why Work for WatchGuard?
WatchGuard is a global leader in network security and intelligence, advanced endpoint protection, multi-factor authentication, and secure Wi-Fi. Our award-winning products and services are trusted worldwide by more than 18,000 security resellers and service providers to protect more than 250,000 customers. Our technology keeps our customers ahead of increasingly sophisticated hackers and has fueled record revenues at WatchGuard.
WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with team members working remotely and in offices worldwide.
Our company culture places an intense focus on our customers and employees. From the newest employee to our CEO, you'll find that each person at WatchGuard embodies our Core Values: Accountability, Community, Belonging, Action, Innovation, and Customer-Centric. Learn more about our company culture at www.watchguard.com/wgrd-careers.
WatchGuard provides equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees, regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, age, sex, sexual orientation (including gender expression or identity), marital status, mental or physical disability, honorably discharged veteran or military status or any other category protected by federal, state or local laws. Our equal employment opportunity (or EEO) policy focuses solely on the talent, hard work, contributions, and actual results achieved by each WatchGuard employee and on the potential of employment candidates to make such contributions. We consider focusing on an employee's protected characteristics rather than on talent, hard work, and actual work results to violate our EEO policy. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are committed to a diverse workforce. WatchGuard participates in E-verify.
WatchGuard is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Electronics & Hardware
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote channel marketing specialist jobs.
- Three or more years of experience in channel, partner, or indirect marketing
- Hands-on experience managing MDF or co-op marketing programs with partners
- Proficiency with PRM platforms and CRM systems such as Salesforce
- Demonstrated ability to build and execute joint go-to-market campaigns
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or a related field
- Strong cross-functional communication skills for working with sales and partner teams
Tips for Your Remote Channel Marketing Specialist Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote channel marketing specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place. Search current listings by role, find openings that match your experience level, and apply directly without sorting through unrelated results.
Show async execution in your portfolio
Remote channel marketing employers look for evidence you can run partner programs without daily check-ins. Include campaign briefs, MDF request templates, co-branded asset libraries, or partner enablement decks that show you can produce and ship work independently.
Name your remote collaboration tools upfront
Call out the specific platforms you use, such as Salesforce PRM, Impartner, Alliances, or partner portal systems, in your resume and cover letter. Remote hiring managers screen for tool fluency because onboarding time is limited on distributed teams.
Prepare for async interview rounds
Many remote channel marketing teams use written take-homes or recorded video screens before live interviews. Practice articulating partner program strategy in writing and rehearse concise verbal answers for async video tools so your first impression lands clearly without real-time back-and-forth.
Remote Channel Marketing Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote channel marketing specialist job?
Remote channel marketing specialist roles go to candidates who can demonstrate independent execution, strong written communication, and comfort with async collaboration tools like Slack, Asana, or project management platforms. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction because there is no in-office oversight. Candidates who show measurable channel program results, familiarity with partner portal platforms, and clear written communication skills consistently edge out those with equivalent experience but no remote-specific examples.
Which companies hire remote channel marketing specialists?
Employers currently hiring remote channel marketing specialists include Headway (NY), Logitech, and 8x8, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, cloud technology vendors, and distributed channel-driven organizations make up the largest share of these remote openings.
Can you get a remote channel marketing specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level channel marketing specialist roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal onboarding support. Remote-first SaaS startups and smaller technology resellers are more likely to hire entry-level candidates. Showing completed partner marketing projects, certifications in marketing automation or channel platforms, and a portfolio of campaign assets can substitute meaningfully for direct job experience.
Do you need a degree for remote channel marketing specialist jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in this role weigh demonstrated channel marketing skills, platform certifications, and a portfolio of real partner program work heavily alongside or instead of formal credentials. A degree in marketing, communications, or business is common among applicants, but candidates who show hands-on results with MDF programs, co-branded campaigns, or partner enablement materials regularly advance without one.
Which industries hire the most remote channel marketing specialists?
The sectors hiring the most remote channel marketing specialists are Electronics & Hardware and Consulting & Professional Services, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed partner and reseller networks, which makes remote channel marketing specialist roles a natural fit for their distributed team structures.
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