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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Product Manager
Location: Santa Clara, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 04/24/2005
IDS/IPS Content Senior Product Manager
Major Responsibilities
- Function as lead product manager for the Network & Gateway Solutions group
content (i.e. IDS/IPS signatures, generic exploit blocking scripts, etc.) by
ensuring the success of existing projects currently underway, routinely
measuring performance, and leading new efforts to improve NGS products and
operations.
- Provide intrusion detection / intrusion prevention domain expertise on an
ongoing basis to organization while maintaining a technical understanding of a
broad range of security solutions.
- Understand, research and recommend leading threat detection, protection and
repair functionality working with product teams.
- Participate in cross-functional meetings with IPS product teams to plan,
contribute to strategy and monitor product plans.
- Assist in mapping, validating and determining feasibility of content
solutions as defined by product and cross-functional teams
- Drive product teams to understand value and importance of threat intelligence
and insight -Provide ongoing sales tools and support to communicate the value,
capabilities and differentiation.
- Create and or drive creation of sales tools, white papers and other
collateral
- Execute the security outbreak communications / management process on a
rotating basis with other team members
- Assist or lead testing initiatives with 3rd parties such as trade
publications and independent labs to assess and improve NGS content breadth,
depth and timeliness
- Perform competitive analysis of other companies’ response and content
solutions (esp. IDS/IPS) that result in product team briefings/recommendations
as well as sales tools/briefings
- Conduct speaking engagements and handle PR requests representing the security
research organization particularly regarding new attacks and vulnerabilities
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Position Requirements and Education:
Two to four years of product management experience delivering enterprise
software solutions is required.
Experience in the security industry required, experience with IDS/IPS solutions
heavily preferred
BA/BS degree or equivalent. MBA a plus.
Ideal Candidate should have:
 Established product management skills
 Demonstrated leadership and creative problem solving
 Process analysis improvement knowledge
 Business opportunity analysis experience (e.g. ROI analysis,
trade-off analysis)
 Solid project management skills
 Solid grasp of the evolving Internet threat landscape
 Commitment to keeping current on breaking information security
events & trends
 Be able to work well under pressure and within deadlines
 Excellent written and verbal communication, and impeccable
follow up
 Strong writing and presentation skills
 Some marketing and or marketing communications background
helpful
About Gravity People, www.gravitypeople.com
Located in San Francisco, Gravity was founded in 1998. Rather than becoming
just another recruiting firm, Gravity developed its own blueprint based on the
goal of delivering the best service possible. Even in the downturn, Gravity
has expanded its client roster and its revenues.
Gravity has deep domain expertise in the technology industry. We focus on
finding superior senior-level employees in marketing, product management and
engineering for companies in the enterprise software space
CONTACT
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Please send resumes to security@gravitypeople.com
Mike Sienkowski
VP, Search
Gravity
security@gravitypeople.com
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