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Nebius growth playbook

Diagnosis

Nebius is growing very fast (Q2 2026 revenue up 454%, a $27 billion Meta contract) and its hiring shows the next market: enterprises and regulated industries. It is adding a Principal PMM for the enterprise buying committee, a financial services solution lead, healthcare and partner teams, a GSI program, Token Factory and Tavily go-to-market, developer community roles and a data center community lead.

The website still sells mostly to AI-native builders: the pricing page shows only GPU-hour rates while its own TCO study says that is the misleading number, there is no enterprise page, no migration or comparison pages, solution pages share the homepage description, and the DORA letter is not linked from the finance page.

This playbook moves the TCO, compliance and enterprise proof to where buyers decide first, then builds ABM plays, partner kits, developer tools and data-led content.

Growth Score

8/10

Biggest Opportunity

Win enterprise and regulated buyers on total cost, reliability and compliance, where Nebius already has independent evidence.

Biggest Risk

Hyperscalers and neoclouds such as CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe and Together AI compete for the same buyers, and with capacity largely committed, enterprise demand must be won without slowing service to existing customers.

01

Start here

The three moves to make first. Each one is written up in full below.

  1. 1

    Put the TCO study on the pricing page, where buyers compare GPU-hour rates

    Add a link to the TCO study above the GPU price table.

    High impact First result in 1 month
  2. 2

    An enterprise page for the buying committee: TCO, SLAs, security, sovereignty, migration and lock-in

    Outline the page from the six concerns in the role.

    High impact First result in 1 month
  3. 3

    Give each solution page its own search description

    Rewrite the financial services description first.

    Medium impact First result in 1 month

02

Your idea portfolio

21 ideas, grouped by when to run them. Open any idea for how to run it: the steps, who to approach, copy you can use, and how to measure it.

  • 7 ideas are marked Unexpected: plays you are unlikely to have tried.

    1 of these are things Programmable can build and run for you.

Every idea placed by the effort it takes against the impact it could have. Quick wins sit top left; select a number to open that idea. The filters below narrow the list by status, timing, category and what Programmable can build.

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Showing 21 of 21 ideas

This week 6

Quick wins with a clear first action.

  • 01

    Nebius's own TCO page says "GPU-hour pricing is the most visible metric in AI infrastructure, and often the most misleading", and the SemiAnalysis study it commissioned found Nebius the lowest TCO in all three workloads, with AWS up to 113% more expensive. But the pricing page shows only GPU-hour rates (H100 $4.50, B200 $8.50) with no link to the study, no reliability numbers and no mention of SLAs, and the homepage does not link the study either. The buyer comparing rate cards side by side sees exactly the number Nebius says is misleading. The new Principal PMM, Enterprise is hired to build "ROI/TCO tools" for this moment.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 month Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Add a link to the TCO study above the GPU price table.

    How to measure it

    TCO study requests and TCO reviews booked from /prices

    Now
    –
    Target
    +40%
    By
    90 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      Agree the claims

      Which SemiAnalysis and Revolut figures to show, with footnotes.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 days

    2. 2

      Design the panel

      Above the GPU table, with the study link.

      DevRel Communications Designer 3 days

    3. 3

      Build the estimator

      GPUs, months, utilization, downtime cost.

      Web team 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Route requests

      Study downloads and TCO reviews to enterprise SAs.

      Sales Operations Specialist 2 days

    5. 5

      Add to the homepage

      Link the Revolut TCO numbers to the study.

      Web team 1 day

    6. 6

      Enable the field

      Same estimator in first-call decks.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    7. 7

      Measure

      Requests, reviews and pipeline from /prices.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Design and web time
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Add a one-line link to the study on /prices this week.

    Why it works

    Add a "Compare total cost, not just GPU-hours" panel to /prices: the three SemiAnalysis results, the Revolut TCO figures and the fleet MTBF/MTTR from the homepage, a link to the study, and a simple estimator (GPUs, months, expected utilization, downtime cost) that shows cost per completed job. Offer the full study and a TCO review with a solutions architect as the next step, and track it as an enterprise lead source.

    Price pages get the highest-intent traffic on any cloud site. Showing the total-cost argument there turns a rate comparison Nebius may lose on headline price into one it wins, and gives sales a link for every procurement conversation.

    Ready to use

    ChecklistPricing page TCO panel

    [ ] Headline: compare total cost, not GPU-hours
    [ ] Three SemiAnalysis results with footnote
    [ ] Revolut: 43% (fine-tuning), 112% (inference) better TCO vs AWS
    [ ] Fleet MTBF and MTTR
    [ ] Estimator: GPUs, months, utilization, downtime cost
    [ ] Link to full study
    [ ] Book a TCO review with an SA

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Competitors dispute the numbers

      Cite the method and date; link the independent study.

    • Estimator oversimplifies

      Show ranges and offer an SA review for real workloads.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteTCO study page: "GPU-hour pricing is the most visible metric in AI infrastructure - and often the most misleading." Nebius commissioned SemiAnalysis to model three workloads: "Across all three scenarios, Nebius delivered the lowest TCO. AWS was 9% more expensive on a TCO-adjusted basis when GPU-hour pricing was held constant, and up to 113% more expensive" on real-world pricing. The full study is behind a form; neither the homepage nor the pricing page links to this page.Source
    • Your websitePricing page: on-demand GPU-hour rates (HGX H100 $4.50, H200 $5.40, B200 $8.50, B300 $9.50; preemptible from $0.79), "Commitment discounts" via sales, free egress and ingress, free managed Kubernetes and Soperator. The page does not link the TCO study and does not mention SLAs or reliability.Source
    • Your websiteHomepage: "The Ultimate AI Cloud"; "Free white-glove PoC", "24/7 support by default", "500+ AI experts"; the Revolut panel cites "43% better TCO for fine-tuning vs. AWS", "112% better TCO for inference vs. AWS", "56.6 hrs mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs" and "12 min mean time to resolution"; Shopify appears as a video; a banner notes SemiAnalysis rated Nebius Platinum in ClusterMAX 3.0.Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
  • 02

    The Principal PMM, Enterprise is asked to move CIOs, CISOs and procurement through a 6-18-month cycle on TCO, SLAs, security, data residency, migration risk and lock-in. nebius.com has no enterprise page (the URL returns 404), while Lambda has one.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 month Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Outline the page from the six concerns in the role.

    How to measure it

    Enterprise page meetings

    Now
    –
    Target
    30 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      List concerns

      Six from the role, plus field input.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    2. 2

      Collect proof

      Study, SLAs, Trust Center, stories.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    3. 3

      Write by persona

      CIO, CISO, procurement.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Design

      Role switcher and proof blocks.

      DevRel Communications Designer 1 week

    5. 5

      Build and route

      To enterprise SAs.

      Web team 1 week

    6. 6

      Use in ABM

      Link in account plays.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise ongoing

    7. 7

      Measure

      Meetings and pipeline influenced.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish a one-section version with TCO and Trust Center links.

    Why it works

    Build /enterprise with one section per buying-committee concern, each linking proof: the TCO study, reliability numbers, Trust Center certifications, regions and residency, the migration offer, open-model portability, and enterprise stories. Add a role switcher (CIO, CISO, procurement) and a "talk to an enterprise architect" path.

    Committee buyers each need their own answer; one page that answers them all shortens evaluation and arms the champion inside the account.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Generic copy

      Every claim links a proof page.

    Evidence

    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (818 marketing URLs, read October 21, 2026): solution pages for financial services, healthcare, retail, media, physical AI, agents, vision and more; no enterprise page (nebius.com/enterprise returns 404), no migration program page and no comparison pages against hyperscalers. The financial services, retail, media, physical AI, document intelligence, Token Factory and startups pages all reuse the homepage meta description "Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud, engineered from silicon to API."Source
    • Your websiteTrust Center: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, 27018, 27701, 27799 (health information), 22301, 42001 (AI management), CSA STAR, NIS2 and DORA. The DORA page says Nebius "qualifies as an ICT third-party service provider under DORA" and offers "Nebius B.V. DORA confirmation letter" from an external auditor.Source
    • Competitor researchRivals' own sites: CoreWeave, "The Essential Cloud for AI", publishes an "AI cloud TCO pricing comparison" report and a "zero-egress migration program"; Lambda, on-demand and reserved GPU clusters, has an /enterprise page; Crusoe, "The AI factory company" with an energy-first approach; Together AI, "The AI Native Cloud" for inference, fine-tuning and clusters.Source
  • 03

    The financial services, retail, media, physical AI, document intelligence, Token Factory and startups pages all reuse the homepage description "Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud". Search results and link previews for those pages look identical, just as Nebius hires a financial services lead to own that page.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 month Web team

    First action

    Rewrite the financial services description first.

    How to measure it

    Solution page click-through

    Now
    –
    Target
    +15%
    By
    60 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      List pages

      All with the default description.

      Web team 2 hours

    2. 2

      Write descriptions

      Workload and proof point.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 day

    3. 3

      Owner review

      FS, Token Factory, healthcare leads.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 day

    4. 4

      Publish

      In the CMS.

      Web team 2 hours

    5. 5

      Add a guard

      Build check for the default.

      Web team 1 day

    6. 6

      Measure

      Search Console.

      Web team monthly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    $0
    Owner
    Web team

    Smallest test

    Fix the financial services page today.

    Why it works

    Write a specific description for every solution and product page (who it is for, the workload, one proof point), and add a check so new pages cannot ship with the default.

    Distinct descriptions lift click-through on industry searches and make shared links clear.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Small effect alone

      Pair with page title updates.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteSitemap (818 marketing URLs, read October 21, 2026): solution pages for financial services, healthcare, retail, media, physical AI, agents, vision and more; no enterprise page (nebius.com/enterprise returns 404), no migration program page and no comparison pages against hyperscalers. The financial services, retail, media, physical AI, document intelligence, Token Factory and startups pages all reuse the homepage meta description "Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud, engineered from silicon to API."Source
    • HiringSolution Marketing Lead, Financial Services (United States, posted October 14, 2026): positioning for "quantitative research, financial model training and fine-tuning, risk and portfolio modeling, research copilots, fraud and financial-crime detection, trade surveillance, document intelligence"; "customer proof points"; "industry-influencer programs"; joint marketing with NVIDIA and ISVs; "building from 0 to 1"; deep capital-markets expertise.Source
    • Your websiteFinancial services page: use cases for capital markets, quant research, banking and insurance; "metrics backed by SLAs"; workloads kept "in-region for data-residency rules"; a DORA badge image but no link to the Trust Center DORA page or its auditor confirmation letter; Revolut is the only customer story; three NVIDIA blueprints (portfolio optimization, signal discovery, model distillation).Source
  • 04

    Nebius has an external auditor's DORA confirmation letter and NIS2 audit in its Trust Center, which European banks, insurers and investment firms must check for ICT providers. The financial services page shows a DORA badge image but no link to the page or the letter.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 month Solution Marketing Lead

    First action

    Link the DORA page from the badge.

    How to measure it

    FS compliance pack requests

    Now
    –
    Target
    20 a month
    By
    90 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      Link badges

      To Trust Center pages.

      Web team 1 hour

    2. 2

      Write the block

      Regulated finance evidence.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 2 days

    3. 3

      Build the pack

      Letters, reports, FAQs.

      Security Solutions Engineer 1 week

    4. 4

      Gate the pack

      Request form routed to FS sellers.

      Sales Operations Specialist 1 day

    5. 5

      Brief sellers

      Use in first calls.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 day

    6. 6

      Measure

      Requests and deal speed.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services

    Smallest test

    Turn the DORA badge into a link.

    Why it works

    Add a "Compliance for regulated finance" block: DORA and NIS2 with the letter, SOC 2/3, ISO 27001 and 42001, data residency regions, customer-managed keys and audit logs, each linked. Offer a compliance pack request for vendor-risk teams.

    Vendor-risk review is a gate in every financial deal; making the evidence one click away removes weeks.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Over-claiming compliance

      Use the auditor's wording exactly.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteFinancial services page: use cases for capital markets, quant research, banking and insurance; "metrics backed by SLAs"; workloads kept "in-region for data-residency rules"; a DORA badge image but no link to the Trust Center DORA page or its auditor confirmation letter; Revolut is the only customer story; three NVIDIA blueprints (portfolio optimization, signal discovery, model distillation).Source
    • Your websiteTrust Center: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, 27018, 27701, 27799 (health information), 22301, 42001 (AI management), CSA STAR, NIS2 and DORA. The DORA page says Nebius "qualifies as an ICT third-party service provider under DORA" and offers "Nebius B.V. DORA confirmation letter" from an external auditor.Source
    • HiringSolution Marketing Lead, Financial Services (United States, posted October 14, 2026): positioning for "quantitative research, financial model training and fine-tuning, risk and portfolio modeling, research copilots, fraud and financial-crime detection, trade surveillance, document intelligence"; "customer proof points"; "industry-influencer programs"; joint marketing with NVIDIA and ISVs; "building from 0 to 1"; deep capital-markets expertise.Source
  • 05

    Of 37 customer stories, most are AI-native startups and research projects; Revolut is the only bank. Shopify is on the homepage as a video but has no written story. Enterprise buyers want peers they recognise, in text they can forward.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Transcribe the Shopify video into a draft story.

    How to measure it

    Enterprise stories

    Now
    –
    Target
    5
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Draft Shopify

      From the video.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    2. 2

      Shopify approval

      Customer review.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Find four more

      One per industry.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise 1 month

    4. 4

      Interview

      Outcomes and numbers.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 month

    5. 5

      Publish and tag

      Enterprise segment.

      Web team ongoing

    6. 6

      Use in ABM

      By industry.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise ongoing

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Writing time
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish the Shopify story.

    Why it works

    Write the Shopify story from the video, then add four enterprise stories by industry (finance, healthcare, retail, media) with outcomes on TCO, reliability and time to production. Tag them "Enterprise" in the segment filter.

    Peer proof is the strongest content in a long enterprise cycle, and written stories are indexable and forwardable.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Enterprises decline to be named

      Offer anonymised stories with verified numbers.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteCustomer stories: 37 stories filterable by industry, workload, segment and region; most are AI-native startups, research groups and open-source projects (vLLM, SGLang, Stanford CRISPR-GPT); Revolut is the only bank and Sword Health the main healthcare company; Shopify, featured on the homepage, has no written story page in the sitemap.Source
    • Your websiteHomepage: "The Ultimate AI Cloud"; "Free white-glove PoC", "24/7 support by default", "500+ AI experts"; the Revolut panel cites "43% better TCO for fine-tuning vs. AWS", "112% better TCO for inference vs. AWS", "56.6 hrs mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs" and "12 min mean time to resolution"; Shopify appears as a video; a banner notes SemiAnalysis rated Nebius Platinum in ClusterMAX 3.0.Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
  • 06

    Nebius already charges nothing for network egress and ingress, and migration risk and lock-in are on the enterprise PMM's list. CoreWeave markets a "zero-egress migration program"; Nebius has no migration page at all.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 quarter Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Draft the program terms with sales leadership.

    How to measure it

    Migration assessments booked

    Now
    –
    Target
    25 a quarter
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Set terms

      Credits and eligibility.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    2. 2

      Write the page

      Steps, tools, offer.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    3. 3

      Add tools

      SkyPilot and storage guides.

      Senior Developer Advocate 1 week

    4. 4

      Launch campaign

      Target hyperscaler accounts.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Assess

      SA-led plans.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise ongoing

    6. 6

      Measure

      Assessments and wins.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Migration credits
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish the page with the free-egress fact.

    Why it works

    Launch a migration program page: free data transfer in, migration credits for committed customers, an SA-led plan, SkyPilot and object-storage tools, and open-model portability. Run it as a campaign at accounts on hyperscalers.

    A named offer gives sellers a reason to call and lowers the perceived switching risk.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Credits used without commitment

      Tie credits to signed commitments.

    Evidence

    • Your websitePricing page: on-demand GPU-hour rates (HGX H100 $4.50, H200 $5.40, B200 $8.50, B300 $9.50; preemptible from $0.79), "Commitment discounts" via sales, free egress and ingress, free managed Kubernetes and Soperator. The page does not link the TCO study and does not mention SLAs or reliability.Source
    • Competitor researchRivals' own sites: CoreWeave, "The Essential Cloud for AI", publishes an "AI cloud TCO pricing comparison" report and a "zero-egress migration program"; Lambda, on-demand and reserved GPU clusters, has an /enterprise page; Crusoe, "The AI factory company" with an energy-first approach; Together AI, "The AI Native Cloud" for inference, fine-tuning and clusters.Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source

This quarter 10

The core plays for the next three months.

  • 07

    The enterprise PMM is asked for competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds, and Nebius has independent TCO data against AWS. There are no comparison pages for buyers searching "AWS vs" alternatives for GPU clusters.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Write the AWS training comparison.

    How to measure it

    Comparison-page meetings

    Now
    –
    Target
    20 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick comparisons

      AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    2. 2

      Check facts

      Current public pricing.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 week

    3. 3

      Write

      Training and inference.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Legal review

      Claims and trademarks.

      Legal 1 week

    5. 5

      Publish

      With dates and sources.

      Web team 1 day

    6. 6

      Refresh

      Quarterly.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise quarterly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish one comparison.

    Why it works

    Publish comparison pages for training and inference: TCO, reliability, GPU availability, managed tools, support and egress, with sources and dates. Use the same content as competitor comparisons.

    Comparison searches are high intent and AI assistants quote well-sourced tables.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Stale numbers

      Date every table and refresh quarterly.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteTCO study page: "GPU-hour pricing is the most visible metric in AI infrastructure - and often the most misleading." Nebius commissioned SemiAnalysis to model three workloads: "Across all three scenarios, Nebius delivered the lowest TCO. AWS was 9% more expensive on a TCO-adjusted basis when GPU-hour pricing was held constant, and up to 113% more expensive" on real-world pricing. The full study is behind a form; neither the homepage nor the pricing page links to this page.Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
    • Competitor researchRivals' own sites: CoreWeave, "The Essential Cloud for AI", publishes an "AI cloud TCO pricing comparison" report and a "zero-egress migration program"; Lambda, on-demand and reserved GPU clusters, has an /enterprise page; Crusoe, "The AI factory company" with an energy-first approach; Together AI, "The AI Native Cloud" for inference, fine-tuning and clusters.Source
  • 08

    The enterprise role describes stage plays sequenced by account with 6sense or Demandbase. Nebius already has the assets (TCO study, Trust Center, PoC offer, certification) but no stage map.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 2 quarters Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Pick 200 target accounts.

    How to measure it

    Pipeline influenced in target accounts

    Now
    –
    Target
    $200M
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick accounts

      200 targets.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Map stages

      Content per stage.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Set up ABM

      Intent and audiences.

      Digital marketing 1 month

    4. 4

      Launch plays

      By stage.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 month

    5. 5

      Align sales

      Weekly account reviews.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise weekly

    6. 6

      Measure

      Influenced pipeline and win rate.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    ABM platform and media
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Run one play for 20 accounts.

    Build the prospect list. The list compiled from public sources, verified, deduplicated and delivered to your CRM. Usually live within days.

    Book a working session

    Why it works

    Map content to stages: awareness (TCO study, benchmarks), evaluation (free white-glove PoC, comparison pages), decision (compliance packs, enterprise stories), expansion (Token Factory, certification). Trigger plays by intent signals for 200 target accounts.

    Sequenced plays raise win rates in long cycles and show pipeline influenced, the role's own metric.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Too many accounts

      Start with 50 and expand.

    Evidence

    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
    • Your websiteHomepage: "The Ultimate AI Cloud"; "Free white-glove PoC", "24/7 support by default", "500+ AI experts"; the Revolut panel cites "43% better TCO for fine-tuning vs. AWS", "112% better TCO for inference vs. AWS", "56.6 hrs mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs" and "12 min mean time to resolution"; Shopify appears as a video; a banner notes SemiAnalysis rated Nebius Platinum in ClusterMAX 3.0.Source
    • Your websiteTrust Center: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, 27018, 27701, 27799 (health information), 22301, 42001 (AI management), CSA STAR, NIS2 and DORA. The DORA page says Nebius "qualifies as an ICT third-party service provider under DORA" and offers "Nebius B.V. DORA confirmation letter" from an external auditor.Source
  • 09

    The Developer Advocate role lists the questions builders ask: cost per million tokens at their traffic, and when to move from serverless to a dedicated endpoint. Those are calculator questions, and answering them in public is the best developer marketing.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Senior Developer Advocate

    First action

    Model the break-even for three popular open models.

    How to measure it

    Calculator-to-signup rate

    Now
    –
    Target
    8%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Define inputs

      Traffic, context, latency.

      Senior Developer Advocate 1 week

    2. 2

      Model costs

      Serverless vs dedicated.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Build

      On dev.nebius.com.

      Web team 1 month

    4. 4

      Design results

      Shareable cards.

      DevRel Communications Designer 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Launch

      Meetups and social.

      Senior Developer Advocate 1 week

    6. 6

      Measure

      Use and signups.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Engineering time
    Owner
    Senior Developer Advocate

    Smallest test

    Publish a static break-even table.

    Why it works

    Build a public calculator: model, traffic, context length and latency target in; cost per million tokens on serverless vs dedicated, and the break-even point, out. Publish the method and a weekly "inference economics" post.

    Developers choose platforms before procurement does; a tool they bookmark brings them back at decision time.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Estimates differ from bills

      Show ranges and link to real usage data.

    Evidence

    • HiringDeveloper hiring: a Builder Community Manager for APJ (Singapore, posted September 30, 2026) to run meetups and hackathons and turn events into "ambassador programs, recurring meetups, builder cohorts"; a DevRel Communications Designer (October 19): "builders decide which platforms win", across dev.nebius.com and the AI Builder Program, turning "benchmarks, GPU specs, pricing" into shareable visuals; a Senior Developer Advocate for Token Factory whose builders ask "What does this cost per million tokens at my traffic?" and "When do I move from a serverless endpoint to a dedicated one".Source
    • HiringToken Factory go-to-market: a Product Marketing Manager (positioning for "agentic AI, multimodal AI, reasoning models, and fine-tuning", "case studies"), a Head of Sales Engineering, Principal, Senior and Manager ML Solutions Architects and a Senior Sales Engineer, all for Token Factory.Source
  • 10

    The financial services page offers three NVIDIA blueprints (portfolio optimization, signal discovery, distillation), and the new lead must build capital-markets proof from zero. Quant teams try before they talk.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 2 quarters Solution Marketing Lead

    First action

    Package the portfolio optimization blueprint.

    How to measure it

    Sandbox-to-opportunity rate

    Now
    –
    Target
    15%
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Package blueprints

      One-click environments.

      Partner Solutions Architect 1 month

    2. 2

      Set credits

      For qualified firms.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 week

    3. 3

      Promote

      Quant communities and NVIDIA.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 month

    4. 4

      Hackathon

      New York and London.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 quarter

    5. 5

      Follow up

      SA review.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise ongoing

    6. 6

      Measure

      Trials and opportunities.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    Credits and event costs
    Owner
    Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services

    Smallest test

    Offer the blueprint to ten quant teams.

    Why it works

    Package each blueprint as a one-click environment with sample market data and research credits for qualified firms, then follow up with an SA. Run a quant hackathon in New York and London.

    Hands-on trials create proof and qualified pipeline in a segment where Nebius has one story.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Data licensing

      Use public or synthetic market data.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteFinancial services page: use cases for capital markets, quant research, banking and insurance; "metrics backed by SLAs"; workloads kept "in-region for data-residency rules"; a DORA badge image but no link to the Trust Center DORA page or its auditor confirmation letter; Revolut is the only customer story; three NVIDIA blueprints (portfolio optimization, signal discovery, model distillation).Source
    • HiringSolution Marketing Lead, Financial Services (United States, posted October 14, 2026): positioning for "quantitative research, financial model training and fine-tuning, risk and portfolio modeling, research copilots, fraud and financial-crime detection, trade surveillance, document intelligence"; "customer proof points"; "industry-influencer programs"; joint marketing with NVIDIA and ISVs; "building from 0 to 1"; deep capital-markets expertise.Source
    • Your websiteChannels: 191 event pages (APJ events include SuperAI Singapore 2025, AI Summit Singapore and an Antler event in Singapore); 259 blog posts, the newest "AI Builder Program in Europe" (October 19, 2026); YouTube with 8,430 subscribers, 211 videos and 24.7 million views; certification tracks (AI Cloud Ops, Agentic AI, AI Leader, Physical AI) with Nebius Academy; a live spot-price page updated as often as every 15 minutes.Source
  • 11

    Nebius has separate pages for Independence, Birmingham, Vineland, Schuylkill County and Lappeenranta, and is hiring someone to run community engagement on energy, water, noise and jobs. There is no hub that shows the commitments side by side.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Senior Product Marketing Mana…

    First action

    Build a table of commitments across the five pages.

    How to measure it

    FAQ questions answered within a week

    Now
    –
    Target
    90%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Gather facts

      Five sites.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Design the hub

      Map and standard cards.

      DevRel Communications Designer 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Write FAQs

      Energy, water, noise, jobs.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Legal review

      Public commitments.

      Legal 1 week

    5. 5

      Publish

      Hub and updates.

      Web team 1 week

    6. 6

      Update

      Monthly per site.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Senior Product Marketing Manager Data Center and Community Engagement

    Smallest test

    Publish a simple list page linking the five sites.

    Why it works

    Create a hub with a map and, for each site, the same facts: power, water, jobs, timeline, local contacts, FAQs and updates. Reuse the format for each new site.

    Consistent, open information builds trust with residents, officials and investors, and speeds approvals.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Commitments change

      Date every update.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteData center community pages for Independence (Missouri), Birmingham (Alabama), Vineland (New Jersey), Schuylkill County (Pennsylvania) and Lappeenranta (Finland). The Independence page promises "No increase to residential power rates", annual water use like "an average restaurant" and "more than a thousand construction jobs". The sitemap shows no page that brings the sites together.Source
    • HiringSenior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement (US, posted August 26, 2026): community-facing "fact sheets, FAQs, town-hall content, local economic-impact and jobs stories that address concerns about energy, grid, water, noise, and land"; "Build the proof library"; sustainability proof points "that stand up to scrutiny from customers, investors, regulators, and communities".Source
    • News coverageQ2 2026: revenue of $582 million, up 454% year over year; 2026 revenue guidance kept at $3.0-3.4 billion; a $27 billion contract with Meta signed in May 2026.Source
  • 12

    Nebius just announced an AI Builder Program in Europe and is hiring an APJ Builder Community Manager to create ambassador programs and builder cohorts. Past APJ activity is one-off events in Singapore.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 2 quarters Builder Community Manager

    First action

    Recruit 30 builders for the first cohort.

    How to measure it

    Monthly active APJ builders

    Now
    –
    Target
    500
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Design the cohort

      Credits, mentors, demo day.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) 1 month

    2. 2

      Partner

      VCs and universities.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) 1 month

    3. 3

      Recruit

      30 builders.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) 1 month

    4. 4

      Run

      Twelve weeks.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) 1 quarter

    5. 5

      Name ambassadors

      Five cities.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) 1 quarter

    6. 6

      Measure

      Usage after cohort.

      Builder Community Manager (APJ) monthly

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    Credits and event costs
    Owner
    Builder Community Manager (APJ)

    Smallest test

    Host one builder session in Singapore.

    Why it works

    Launch a quarterly cohort in Singapore: 30 builders, credits, mentor office hours, a demo day, and ambassadors who run local meetups in other APJ cities.

    Cohorts turn event attendees into repeat users and advocates, and give the region a story.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Credit-only users

      Select teams with production plans.

    Evidence

    • HiringDeveloper hiring: a Builder Community Manager for APJ (Singapore, posted September 30, 2026) to run meetups and hackathons and turn events into "ambassador programs, recurring meetups, builder cohorts"; a DevRel Communications Designer (October 19): "builders decide which platforms win", across dev.nebius.com and the AI Builder Program, turning "benchmarks, GPU specs, pricing" into shareable visuals; a Senior Developer Advocate for Token Factory whose builders ask "What does this cost per million tokens at my traffic?" and "When do I move from a serverless endpoint to a dedicated one".Source
    • Your websiteChannels: 191 event pages (APJ events include SuperAI Singapore 2025, AI Summit Singapore and an Antler event in Singapore); 259 blog posts, the newest "AI Builder Program in Europe" (October 19, 2026); YouTube with 8,430 subscribers, 211 videos and 24.7 million views; certification tracks (AI Cloud Ops, Agentic AI, AI Leader, Physical AI) with Nebius Academy; a live spot-price page updated as often as every 15 minutes.Source
  • 13

    The GSI leader is asked to build the program from the ground up with repeatable, services-led solutions. SIs need a ready offer, not just capacity.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 3 quarters Senior Director

    First action

    Build the document intelligence kit.

    How to measure it

    SI-sourced pipeline

    Now
    –
    Target
    $50M
    By
    4 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick kits

      Three solutions.

      Senior Director, GSI and Regional SI Partnerships 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Build assets

      Architecture, demo, pricing.

      Partner Solutions Architect 1 quarter

    3. 3

      Set terms

      Co-selling and margins.

      Senior Director, GSI and Regional SI Partnerships 1 month

    4. 4

      Recruit SIs

      Two global, three regional.

      Senior Director, GSI and Regional SI Partnerships 1 quarter

    5. 5

      Train

      SI delivery teams.

      Partner Solutions Architect ongoing

    6. 6

      Measure

      Pipeline by SI.

      Partner Field Sales Manager monthly

    First result
    3 quarters
    Cost
    Partner enablement costs
    Owner
    Senior Director, GSI and Regional SI Partnerships

    Smallest test

    Pitch one kit to one SI.

    Why it works

    Create three kits from existing solution pages (document intelligence, agentic search with Tavily, fraud detection): reference architecture, pricing guide, demo, delivery playbook and co-selling terms. Launch with two GSIs and three regional SIs.

    SIs carry enterprise relationships; a packaged offer is easy to put in front of clients.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • SIs favour hyperscalers

      Offer margin and joint funding.

    Evidence

    • HiringPartner and industry hiring: a Senior Director of GSI and Regional SI Partnerships to "build and scale our global systems integrator program from the ground up" with "services-led, repeatable solutions that partners sell"; a Partner Field Sales Manager and Partner Solutions Architects (October 14); a Head of Strategic Partnerships for Tavily ("search infrastructure for the agentic AI era", OEM and co-selling); a Healthcare Solutions Partner (Digital Health, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging); an Influencer Marketing Manager for Nebius Academy certification.Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (818 marketing URLs, read October 21, 2026): solution pages for financial services, healthcare, retail, media, physical AI, agents, vision and more; no enterprise page (nebius.com/enterprise returns 404), no migration program page and no comparison pages against hyperscalers. The financial services, retail, media, physical AI, document intelligence, Token Factory and startups pages all reuse the homepage meta description "Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud, engineered from silicon to API."Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
  • 14

    Nebius holds ISO 27799 (health information security) and other certifications, and is hiring a Healthcare Solutions Partner for digital health, medical devices and imaging. Sword Health's story shows clinical-grade workloads in production.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Healthcare Solutions Partner

    First action

    List the certifications health buyers ask for.

    How to measure it

    Health pack requests

    Now
    –
    Target
    15 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      List questions

      From recent deals.

      Healthcare Solutions Partner 1 week

    2. 2

      Write the block

      Certifications and handling.

      Healthcare Solutions Partner 1 week

    3. 3

      Security review

      Accuracy.

      Security Solutions Engineer 1 week

    4. 4

      Publish

      Life sciences page.

      Web team 1 day

    5. 5

      Route requests

      To HCLS team.

      Sales Operations Specialist 1 day

    6. 6

      Measure

      Requests and deals.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Healthcare Solutions Partner

    Smallest test

    Add the ISO 27799 link to the healthcare page.

    Why it works

    Add a healthcare compliance block to the life sciences page: relevant certifications, data handling, residency, and a security pack for health buyers, with the Sword Health story.

    Health buyers start with compliance; showing it early shortens qualification.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Implying certifications not held

      List only what is audited.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteTrust Center: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, 27018, 27701, 27799 (health information), 22301, 42001 (AI management), CSA STAR, NIS2 and DORA. The DORA page says Nebius "qualifies as an ICT third-party service provider under DORA" and offers "Nebius B.V. DORA confirmation letter" from an external auditor.Source
    • HiringPartner and industry hiring: a Senior Director of GSI and Regional SI Partnerships to "build and scale our global systems integrator program from the ground up" with "services-led, repeatable solutions that partners sell"; a Partner Field Sales Manager and Partner Solutions Architects (October 14); a Head of Strategic Partnerships for Tavily ("search infrastructure for the agentic AI era", OEM and co-selling); a Healthcare Solutions Partner (Digital Health, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging); an Influencer Marketing Manager for Nebius Academy certification.Source
    • Your websiteCustomer stories: 37 stories filterable by industry, workload, segment and region; most are AI-native startups, research groups and open-source projects (vLLM, SGLang, Stanford CRISPR-GPT); Revolut is the only bank and Sword Health the main healthcare company; Shopify, featured on the homepage, has no written story page in the sitemap.Source
  • 15

    Nebius Academy runs certification tracks and is hiring an influencer manager to grow them. The most credible voices are engineers who passed and want to show it.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 quarter Influencer Marketing Manager

    First action

    Issue badges to everyone certified so far.

    How to measure it

    Referred certifications

    Now
    –
    Target
    25% of total
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Set up badges

      Verifiable credentials.

      Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Design the card

      Shareable result.

      DevRel Communications Designer 1 week

    3. 3

      Add referral links

      With credits.

      Web team 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Launch

      Email to certified engineers.

      Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy 1 week

    5. 5

      Feature builders

      Monthly post.

      Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy monthly

    6. 6

      Measure

      Shares and referrals.

      Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Credits
    Owner
    Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy

    Smallest test

    Email 100 certified engineers a badge.

    Why it works

    Give every certified engineer a verifiable LinkedIn badge, a shareable result card and a referral link with credits for colleagues; feature top certified builders in a monthly post.

    Peer posts reach the exact professional networks Nebius wants, at no media cost.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Badge spam

      Only issue on passed exams.

    Evidence

    • HiringPartner and industry hiring: a Senior Director of GSI and Regional SI Partnerships to "build and scale our global systems integrator program from the ground up" with "services-led, repeatable solutions that partners sell"; a Partner Field Sales Manager and Partner Solutions Architects (October 14); a Head of Strategic Partnerships for Tavily ("search infrastructure for the agentic AI era", OEM and co-selling); a Healthcare Solutions Partner (Digital Health, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging); an Influencer Marketing Manager for Nebius Academy certification.Source
    • Your websiteChannels: 191 event pages (APJ events include SuperAI Singapore 2025, AI Summit Singapore and an Antler event in Singapore); 259 blog posts, the newest "AI Builder Program in Europe" (October 19, 2026); YouTube with 8,430 subscribers, 211 videos and 24.7 million views; certification tracks (AI Cloud Ops, Agentic AI, AI Leader, Physical AI) with Nebius Academy; a live spot-price page updated as often as every 15 minutes.Source
  • 16

    Chrome UX Report data shows real visitors' largest contentful paint at 2.7 seconds, above Google's 2.5-second "good" threshold, and the homepage HTML alone is about 380 KB. An AI cloud that sells speed should load fast.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Web team

    First action

    Measure what makes up the 380 KB HTML.

    How to measure it

    CrUX LCP p75

    Now
    –
    Target
    under 2.5 s
    By
    1 quarter

    Steps

    1. 1

      Profile

      HTML and hero.

      Web team 1 week

    2. 2

      Trim data

      Embedded page state.

      Web team 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Lazy-load

      Stories and video.

      Web team 1 week

    4. 4

      Preload hero

      Fonts and image.

      Web team 2 days

    5. 5

      Monitor

      Field data weekly.

      Web team weekly

    6. 6

      Repeat

      Pricing and solution pages.

      Web team 1 month

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Engineering time
    Owner
    Web team

    Smallest test

    Lazy-load the customer story videos.

    Why it works

    Cut the embedded page data, lazy-load below-the-fold stories and video covers, preload the hero, and track field LCP weekly.

    Faster pages improve conversion and search visibility, and support the speed message.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Design regressions

      Visual checks before release.

    Evidence

    • Google PageSpeedChrome UX Report (real Chrome visitors to nebius.com, 75th percentile): largest contentful paint 2.7 s, above Google's 2.5 s "good" threshold; interaction to next paint 163 ms; layout shift 0.02. The homepage HTML alone is about 380 KB.Source
    • Your websiteHomepage: "The Ultimate AI Cloud"; "Free white-glove PoC", "24/7 support by default", "500+ AI experts"; the Revolut panel cites "43% better TCO for fine-tuning vs. AWS", "112% better TCO for inference vs. AWS", "56.6 hrs mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs" and "12 min mean time to resolution"; Shopify appears as a video; a banner notes SemiAnalysis rated Nebius Platinum in ClusterMAX 3.0.Source

Big bets 3

Larger plays that can change the trajectory.

  • 17

    The homepage cites 56.6 hours MTBF for 3,000 GPUs and 12-minute recovery, and SLAs and reliability are on every enterprise checklist. Few AI clouds publish fleet reliability.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 3 quarters Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Pull last quarter's MTBF and MTTR by platform.

    How to measure it

    Deals where the report was shared

    Now
    –
    Target
    50%
    By
    4 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Define metrics

      MTBF, MTTR, interruptions.

      Director, Solutions Architecture - Enterprise 1 month

    2. 2

      Pull data

      By platform and region.

      SRE 1 month

    3. 3

      Review

      Legal and comms.

      Legal 1 month

    4. 4

      Design

      Readable charts.

      DevRel Communications Designer 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Publish

      Quarterly.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise quarterly

    6. 6

      Enable

      Sales and SIs.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise ongoing

    First result
    3 quarters
    Cost
    Analyst time
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish one chart with last quarter's MTBF.

    Why it works

    Publish a quarterly reliability report: MTBF, MTTR, job interruption rates and checkpoint recovery by GPU platform and region, with method. Link it from pricing, enterprise and comparison pages.

    Published reliability makes the TCO argument verifiable and becomes a reference that rivals must answer.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • A bad quarter is public

      Publish trends and explain incidents openly.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteHomepage: "The Ultimate AI Cloud"; "Free white-glove PoC", "24/7 support by default", "500+ AI experts"; the Revolut panel cites "43% better TCO for fine-tuning vs. AWS", "112% better TCO for inference vs. AWS", "56.6 hrs mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs" and "12 min mean time to resolution"; Shopify appears as a video; a banner notes SemiAnalysis rated Nebius Platinum in ClusterMAX 3.0.Source
    • Your websiteTCO study page: "GPU-hour pricing is the most visible metric in AI infrastructure - and often the most misleading." Nebius commissioned SemiAnalysis to model three workloads: "Across all three scenarios, Nebius delivered the lowest TCO. AWS was 9% more expensive on a TCO-adjusted basis when GPU-hour pricing was held constant, and up to 113% more expensive" on real-world pricing. The full study is behind a form; neither the homepage nor the pricing page links to this page.Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source
  • 18

    Nebius is hiring a Head of Strategic Partnerships for Tavily, "search infrastructure for the agentic AI era", alongside Token Factory's agentic positioning and an agentic search solution page. Enterprises building agents need both.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 3 quarters Head of Strategic Partnerships

    First action

    Build one reference agent on the combined stack.

    How to measure it

    Accounts on inference plus search

    Now
    –
    Target
    200
    By
    4 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Define the bundle

      Pricing and terms.

      Head of Strategic Partnerships, Tavily 1 month

    2. 2

      Build references

      Two agents.

      Principal ML Solutions Architect - Token Factory 1 quarter

    3. 3

      Position

      Messaging and page.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory 1 month

    4. 4

      Partner

      SIs and OEMs.

      Head of Strategic Partnerships, Tavily 1 quarter

    5. 5

      Launch

      Developer and enterprise.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory 1 month

    6. 6

      Measure

      Attach rate.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    3 quarters
    Cost
    Product and partner time
    Owner
    Head of Strategic Partnerships, Tavily

    Smallest test

    Offer the bundle to five Token Factory customers.

    Why it works

    Package an agent stack with one contract and bill: open-model inference, Tavily search, observability and governance, with reference agents for finance research and customer support. Sell through SIs and OEM partners.

    Bundles raise contract value and make Nebius the default for agent workloads rather than raw GPUs.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Bundle confusion

      Keep each product buyable alone.

    Evidence

    • HiringPartner and industry hiring: a Senior Director of GSI and Regional SI Partnerships to "build and scale our global systems integrator program from the ground up" with "services-led, repeatable solutions that partners sell"; a Partner Field Sales Manager and Partner Solutions Architects (October 14); a Head of Strategic Partnerships for Tavily ("search infrastructure for the agentic AI era", OEM and co-selling); a Healthcare Solutions Partner (Digital Health, Medical Devices, Medical Imaging); an Influencer Marketing Manager for Nebius Academy certification.Source
    • HiringToken Factory go-to-market: a Product Marketing Manager (positioning for "agentic AI, multimodal AI, reasoning models, and fine-tuning", "case studies"), a Head of Sales Engineering, Principal, Senior and Manager ML Solutions Architects and a Senior Sales Engineer, all for Token Factory.Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (818 marketing URLs, read October 21, 2026): solution pages for financial services, healthcare, retail, media, physical AI, agents, vision and more; no enterprise page (nebius.com/enterprise returns 404), no migration program page and no comparison pages against hyperscalers. The financial services, retail, media, physical AI, document intelligence, Token Factory and startups pages all reuse the homepage meta description "Build and scale faster on the purpose-built AI cloud, engineered from silicon to API."Source
  • 19

    Data sovereignty and residency are on the enterprise checklist, Nebius is headquartered in Amsterdam with European data centers, and it holds DORA and NIS2 confirmations. Few US neoclouds can offer the same EU story.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 4 quarters Principal Product Marketing M…

    First action

    Interview five EU banks on residency needs.

    How to measure it

    EU regulated pipeline

    Now
    –
    Target
    $100M
    By
    4 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Interview buyers

      Five banks and insurers.

      Solution Marketing Lead, Financial Services 1 month

    2. 2

      Define the package

      Regions, keys, terms.

      Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise 1 month

    3. 3

      Legal terms

      DORA contract clauses.

      Legal 1 month

    4. 4

      Launch page

      EU regulated cloud.

      Web team 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Sell

      Country by country.

      Director, Solutions Architecture EMEA ongoing

    6. 6

      Measure

      Pipeline.

      Sales Operations Specialist monthly

    First result
    4 quarters
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Principal Product Marketing Manager Enterprise

    Smallest test

    Publish an EU residency FAQ.

    Why it works

    Offer an EU regulated package: in-region capacity, EU support, DORA and NIS2 evidence, customer-managed keys and contract terms for financial and public-sector buyers, sold country by country.

    Regulated EU buyers pay for residency and compliance, and it differentiates Nebius from US rivals.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Capacity is sold out

      Reserve EU capacity for the package.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteTrust Center: SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, 27018, 27701, 27799 (health information), 22301, 42001 (AI management), CSA STAR, NIS2 and DORA. The DORA page says Nebius "qualifies as an ICT third-party service provider under DORA" and offers "Nebius B.V. DORA confirmation letter" from an external auditor.Source
    • Your websiteFinancial services page: use cases for capital markets, quant research, banking and insurance; "metrics backed by SLAs"; workloads kept "in-region for data-residency rules"; a DORA badge image but no link to the Trust Center DORA page or its auditor confirmation letter; Revolut is the only customer story; three NVIDIA blueprints (portfolio optimization, signal discovery, model distillation).Source
    • HiringPrincipal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise (United States, posted October 14, 2026): owns "the 6-18-month enterprise buying cycle" for "CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data/AI Officers, CISOs, VPs of Infrastructure, security and procurement teams"; builds the business case on "total cost of ownership, reliability and SLAs, security and compliance, data sovereignty and residency, migration risk, and vendor lock-in"; delivers "ROI/TCO tools" and "competitive positioning against hyperscalers and neoclouds"; works with ABM platforms "such as 6sense or Demandbase"; measured in "win rates, pipeline influenced, and field adoption, not assets shipped".Source

Wildcards 2

Unexpected experiments, each with a cheap way to test it.

  • 20

    Nebius Academy runs certification tracks, and the data center role must build local trust on jobs and economic benefits. Offering local residents and students AI training turns a facility into an opportunity.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 2 quarters Senior Product Marketing Mana…

    First action

    Contact one college near Independence.

    How to measure it

    Residents certified per site

    Now
    –
    Target
    200
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick sites

      Two first.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Partner

      Local colleges.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement 1 month

    3. 3

      Adapt courses

      Beginner tracks.

      Influencer Marketing Manager, Nebius Academy 1 month

    4. 4

      Run

      Cohorts each term.

      Regional Manager - Education Programs ongoing

    5. 5

      Report

      On the hub.

      Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement quarterly

    6. 6

      Hire

      Graduates for site roles.

      Talent Acquisition ongoing

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    Course delivery costs
    Owner
    Senior Product Marketing Manager Data Center and Community Engagement

    Smallest test

    Run one evening course.

    Why it works

    Run free Nebius Academy courses and certification vouchers in each host community with local colleges, and report graduates and local hires on the community hub.

    Visible local benefit eases approvals and creates a local talent pipeline for the sites.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Seen as PR only

      Report real outcomes.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteData center community pages for Independence (Missouri), Birmingham (Alabama), Vineland (New Jersey), Schuylkill County (Pennsylvania) and Lappeenranta (Finland). The Independence page promises "No increase to residential power rates", annual water use like "an average restaurant" and "more than a thousand construction jobs". The sitemap shows no page that brings the sites together.Source
    • HiringSenior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement (US, posted August 26, 2026): community-facing "fact sheets, FAQs, town-hall content, local economic-impact and jobs stories that address concerns about energy, grid, water, noise, and land"; "Build the proof library"; sustainability proof points "that stand up to scrutiny from customers, investors, regulators, and communities".Source
    • Your websiteChannels: 191 event pages (APJ events include SuperAI Singapore 2025, AI Summit Singapore and an Antler event in Singapore); 259 blog posts, the newest "AI Builder Program in Europe" (October 19, 2026); YouTube with 8,430 subscribers, 211 videos and 24.7 million views; certification tracks (AI Cloud Ops, Agentic AI, AI Leader, Physical AI) with Nebius Academy; a live spot-price page updated as often as every 15 minutes.Source
  • 21

    Nebius already publishes live spot prices that change as often as every 15 minutes. Journalists, analysts and buyers track GPU prices, and no neutral monthly index exists from a cloud's own market.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 quarter Product Marketing Manager Tok…

    First action

    Chart last month's spot prices by platform.

    How to measure it

    Citations of the index

    Now
    –
    Target
    10 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Define the index

      Platforms and method.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory 1 week

    2. 2

      Pull data

      From spot history.

      Data analyst 1 week

    3. 3

      Design charts

      Shareable.

      DevRel Communications Designer 1 week

    4. 4

      Publish

      Monthly.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory monthly

    5. 5

      Pitch

      Press and analysts.

      Communications monthly

    6. 6

      Review

      Citations and visits.

      Product Marketing Manager - Token Factory quarterly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Product Marketing Manager Token Factory

    Smallest test

    Publish one chart.

    Why it works

    Publish a monthly index of spot and on-demand price movements by GPU platform from Nebius data, with a short commentary and a downloadable chart.

    Data journalism earns links, citations and a reason for buyers to return to the pricing pages.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Seen as price signalling

      Publish only aggregated public data.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteChannels: 191 event pages (APJ events include SuperAI Singapore 2025, AI Summit Singapore and an Antler event in Singapore); 259 blog posts, the newest "AI Builder Program in Europe" (October 19, 2026); YouTube with 8,430 subscribers, 211 videos and 24.7 million views; certification tracks (AI Cloud Ops, Agentic AI, AI Leader, Physical AI) with Nebius Academy; a live spot-price page updated as often as every 15 minutes.Source
    • Your websitePricing page: on-demand GPU-hour rates (HGX H100 $4.50, H200 $5.40, B200 $8.50, B300 $9.50; preemptible from $0.79), "Commitment discounts" via sales, free egress and ingress, free managed Kubernetes and Soperator. The page does not link the TCO study and does not mention SLAs or reliability.Source

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30/60/90 roadmap

What to focus on in each month, and the ideas that carry it.

  1. Days 1 to 306 ideas

    TCO on the pricing page, an enterprise page, solution page descriptions, DORA proof on the finance page, written enterprise stories and a named migration program.

  2. Days 31 to 6012 ideas

    Comparison pages, ABM stage plays, the Token Factory calculator, the quant sandbox, the community hub, the APJ cohort, SI kits, healthcare compliance, certification referrals and homepage speed; local courses and the GPU price index.

  3. Days 61 to 903 ideas

    Commit to the big bets: a public reliability report, the agent stack with Tavily and EU regulated packages.

The research behind the plan

3 research areas, each summarised in a few lines. Open any of them for the full detail.

Customers

What customers say

Customers value GPU availability without quota waits. The most cited problem: hidden costs beyond GPU-hour prices.

  • Fast, expert human support
  • Compliance and residency reviews
  • In their words: “TCO”

Market

Competitive landscape

5 competitors compared: CoreWeave, Lambda, Crusoe, Together AI and 1 more.

  • Gap to exploit: Published fleet reliability
  • CoreWeave: Fewer managed inference products for open models
  • Lambda: Narrower software stack

Hiring signals

Nebius is building an enterprise and industry go-to-market on top of its AI-native base.

  • Principal Product Marketing Manager - Enterprise: TCO tools, buying committee, ABM. Ideas 1, 2, 6, 7, 8.
  • Solution Marketing Lead - Financial Services: Capital markets proof from zero. Ideas 3, 4, 10.
  • Senior Product Marketing Manager - Data Center and Community Engagement: Community trust on energy, water and jobs. Ideas 11, 20.

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