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Tekton

Manufacturer of professional-grade hand tools and storage

Hand Tool Technical Marketing Specialist

Full-Time
$60k - $85k/yr
Mid
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
In PersonThe role includes frequent visits to locations where tools are being used.
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • Have at least 2,000 hours of hands-on experience using hand tools in a profession or in advanced personal projects.
  • Have or be able to rapidly learn web design, graphic design, photography, and other content-making skills to an advanced level.
  • Be able to lead others and organize projects.
  • Be able to craft clear, concise messages about tools through visuals and language, guided by an understanding of what matters to tool users and in what order.
  • Have artistic and writing ability to turn ideas into marketing content.
  • Be precise with details and conduct deep research to become an expert on assigned topics.
  • Be able to think in models and patterns.
Responsibilities
  • Research multiple sources to build a comprehensive understanding of products, competitors, core users, and use cases.
  • Work with the Product Development department to understand product functionality, features, materials, and attributes.
  • Identify factual product points and distill the most useful information for users.
  • Provide Product Developers with feedback about user needs and expectations.
  • Develop written and visual storybooks as drafts of content before final production.
  • Work with the content team to create and publish content to Tekton.com, social media, and email.
Desired Qualifications
  • Background in web design.
  • Background in photography.
  • Experience with sketching, creating graphics, and arranging layouts.
  • Experience with Figma, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

About the company

Tekton designs and manufactures professional-grade hand tools, including sockets, ratchets, wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers, and tool storage systems, for both trade professionals and everyday users. The company sells a single, logically organized line of tools arranged by size and type, sourcing steel domestically and manufacturing select items in-house at its Grand Rapids, Michigan headquarters, while partnering with international suppliers for the rest of its lineup. What sets Tekton apart is its transparency, publishing country-of-origin details for every product, plus a no-time-limit, no-receipt warranty and same-day shipping. The goal is to build well-made, thoughtfully designed tools that reflect the idea that simpler is generally better and less is often more.

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Headquarters

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Founded

2000

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What believers are saying

  • August 2026 LTS support through July 2027 gives enterprises a stable upgrade path.
  • CNCF incubation increases legitimacy and distribution across cloud-native buyers and contributors.
  • Pipelines-as-Code becoming official Tekton project broadens ecosystem and reduces dependence on core maintainers.

What critics are saying

  • GitHub Actions owns workflow mindshare; Tekton loses on simplicity and marketplace depth.
  • Tekton YAML remains verbose, so teams adopt higher-level wrappers instead of Tekton directly.
  • If Argo, Jenkins X, and OpenShift Pipelines shift away, Tekton becomes infrastructure plumbing only.

What makes Tekton unique

  • March 2026: CNCF accepted Tekton as an incubating Kubernetes-native CI/CD project.
  • Tekton v1.15.0 LTS ships end-to-end OpenTelemetry tracing and resilient resolution on August 18, 2026.
  • Tekton’s strength is cluster-native execution; it runs pipelines inside users’ Kubernetes infrastructure.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan