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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Sr. Product Manager
Location: San Diego, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 01/26/2005
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Req #450-000-04-008
Websense Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), the world’s leading provider of employee
Internet management solutions, enables organizations to optimize employee use
of computing resources and mitigate new threats related to Internet use
including instant messaging, peer-to-peer, and spyware. By providing usage
policy enforcement at the Internet gateway, on the network and at the desktop,
Websense Enterprise enhances productivity and security, optimizes the use of IT
resources and mitigates legal liability for our customers. Websense serves more
than 20,600 customers worldwide, representing 16.4 million seats. For more
information, visit http://www.websense.com
Summary:
A hands-on Senior Product Marketing Manager is needed to manage product
marketing activities for Websense products and services. The Senior Product
Marketing Manager must be adept at understanding and promoting customer and
market needs and evangelizing the product line both internally and externally.
Job Duties:
Responsibilities include the development of marketing and sales tools to help
position and market the product internally and externally and working closely
with Marcom in the development of marketing collateral and industry events. The
Senior Product Marketing Manager will be responsible for updating the marketing
plan for positioning, pricing, revenue forecasting and go-to-market strategy
and working closely with product management for the execution of product
launches. The Senior Product Marketing Manager will work with sales and other
related departments to ensure a referencable customer base and industry analyst
exposure.
Specific Responsibilities include:
• Creation and execution of the product marketing plan.
• Definition, development, and dissemination of product messages, value
propositions, and positioning.
• Management of product launch activities worldwide.
• Management of cross-functional teams and resources necessary to ensure
the successful and timely definition, release, and ongoing enhancement of
marketing materials.
• Creation of marketing content targeted for Websense products and partner
integrations.
• Support of all product level marketing activities including: customer
and sales events, tradeshows and conferences, product collateral content.
• Other product marketing responsibilities as assigned.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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• 3-5 years of enterprise software product marketing experience
• Experience with enterprise software product marketing is required.
Network or internet related security products (e.g. firewalls,
authentication/encryption, etc.) are a plus.
• Completion of at least one full product launch (from concept through
delivery and training) required.
• Superior strategic thinking and analytical skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence across organizational boundaries
• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time
• MBA preferred
CONTACT
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To be considered for this position, please e-mail your resume
to:jobs@websense.com subject = Senior Product Marketing Manager
Competitive benefits package. EOE.
Websense, Inc.
jobs@websense.com
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