Senior Federal Field Marketing Manager

Get to Know Us Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by IT Ops/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs. We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools and false positives, resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results. What You’ll Do We are seeking a Federal Field Marketing Manager to drive pipeline through high-signal field programs across Horizon3.ai http://Horizon3.ai’s Federal and Public Sector segments - including civilian agencies, DoD, Defense Industrial Base, and more. This role is responsible for building and executing a field motion that reflects the unique buying environment, compliance requirements, and partner ecosystem of the Federal market, while holding every program to the same pipeline ROI standards as the broader field organization. You will work in close partnership with Federal sales leadership, the Channel Field Marketing Manager, Carahsoft, and Federal channel parHorizon3.ai http://parHorizon3.ai’s strongest Federal proof points - FedRAMP High authorization, NSA CAPT program participation, and Fortune 10 trust - are deployed in the right format in front of the right audiences. This role requires someone who understands how the Federal government buys, how Defense Industrial Base suppliers operate, and how to design field programs that work within procurement cycles, compliance constraints, and the partner-led sales motions that define this market. Federal Field Marketing Strategy and Planning - Own the Federal and Public Sector field marketing strategy across civilian agencies, DoD, DIB suppliers, and SLED - building a program portfolio that reflects the distinct buying dynamics of each segment and ladders up to pipeline outcomes, not event attendance. - Partner with Federal sales leadership to align field programs to territory priorities, agency coverage gaps, and active pipeline opportunities - ensuring field marketing is a revenue partner to the Federal sales team, not a support function. - Define ROI thresholds as a hard gate for all Federal field investments, with 30-day post-event pipeline reviews standard across all programs. - Develop and maintain a Federal field marketing calendar aligned to agency budget cycles, procurement timelines, and key Federal market moments - ensuring programs are timed to when buyers are actually in a position to engage, not just when events happen to fall. Program Execution - Design and execute field programs tailored to Federal and Public Sector audiences - including agency-focused roundtables, compliance-driven executive dinners, DIB supplier - Ensure all Federal field programs have coordinated SDR and partner sales outreach and defined follow-up motions that capitalize on field engagement before pipeline decays. Federal Partner and Channel Co-Marketing - Work closely with the Channel Field Marketing Manager and Carahsoft to design and execute co-marketing programs that drive Federal pipeline through indirect routes - including joint events and partner-led demand generation targeting agency and DI