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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sr. Product Manager
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 09/22/2004
Secure Elements, an enterprise vulnerability management leader, automates
security remediation strategies and tactics across the entire enterprise,
reducing business risk and IT management costs while improving systems
performance and maintaining business continuity. The company rapidly identifies
and intelligently responds to complex and diverse security incidents,
protecting mission critical and network infrastructure assets from both known
and unknown attacks without limiting operational performance. Using real-time
threat intelligence data and analysis, Secure Elements provides administrators
with optimal security control and visibility across the enterprise. Secure
Elements serves organizations in the federal government and critical
infrastructure markets, as well the Global 1000.
Secure Elements is an EEO employer.
The person will be responsible for overall management of the Secure Elements
product offerings. This includes responsibility for the researching and
validating the right feature sets and product options to build out the product
roadmap, and documenting the market and product requirements. The Product
Manager collaborates with the CTO, Product Development, Sales, other internal
constituents, as well as with customers and prospects, ensuring that we build
the right products, with just the right feature set, in order to beat our
competition. This position requires an experienced professional to rapidly
guide new product development and launch. Knowledge of an enterprises security
needs and the associated marketplace is a must. The ability to read the
external markets, competitive landscape and R&D capabilities in order to
develop a compelling roadmap and associated MRDs is critical to the role.
Responsibilities
• Manage the overall product roadmap and targeted releases to meet market
requirements, support our revenue targets, and delight our customers
• Develop and document market and product requirements for product
releases
• Work closely with R&D in support of product planning, design and
development
• Serve as Secure Elements primary external representative regarding
product direction
• Provide thought leadership, and author/contribute to whitepapers,
collateral, etc.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Requirements
• Analytical skills to understand business objectives and communicate
requirements
• A solid, technical background, as well as strategic, business and
project mgmt skills
• Excellent analysis skills and ability to solicit feedback to quickly
build consensus
• Ability to work in a fast and constantly evolving environment
• Security Product Experience and Enterprise Software Product Experience
• Proven Ability to lead a Matrix team
• Strong communication skills to interact with business managers and
executives to identify strategic issues and goals
• Interpersonal skills necessary to closely work with engineering and
marketing and take a product to market
• Customer-focused, energetic attitude
Other Skills
• Knowledge of network security markets, products, and best practices
• Vertical industry experience a plus – Federal, Financial Services,
and Critical Infrastructure provider markets
Educational/Experience Requirements
• Technical undergraduate degree
• Product Marketing/Mgmt or Sales Engineering experience in a high growth
tech company
• Entrepreneurial in nature, willing to take calculated risks
CONTACT
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Please apply to this position with a Word version of your resume to
recruiting@secure-elements.com
Helen Krozos
HR Generalist
Secure Elements
Herndon, Virginia, US
recruiting@secure-elements.com
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