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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Product Manager
Location: San Francisco - Bay Area, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 05/22/2005
My client, a leading provider of Security Information Management (SIM) products
and solutions, is looking for a the Product Manager to develop and manage a
high quality product life cycle process for their products.
They have a history of delivering high performance products that scale to
handle large
enterprise security log management and real time event correlation requirements.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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*Key Objectives*
• Assure that products developed align with the company’s vision and
are commercially accepted by the company’s target markets
• Create, implement and manage a systematic, predictable and repeatable
product development process which is transparent and collaborative in nature
and ensures highest quality software products
• Create, organize and disseminate a knowledge base of competitive and
customer information for use in the product management process and in
developing, selling and marketing the company’s products
• Develop a culture of collaborative and rapid product decision making
which objectively considers a 360 degree view of product requirements and makes
timely product decisions
• Work closely with the engineering team to communicate product
requirements and ensure clarity throughout the development process
*Specific Responsibilities*
• Collect, organize, prioritize and disseminate market driven information
from all available sources including customers, competitors, analysts, research
reports and articles, events such as trade shows, trade publications, sales,
engineering, technical support and executive management
• Set and manage product development priorities based on market
requirements, competitive positioning, company strategic direction, tactical
sales opportunities, customer requests and available product development
resources
• Develop product development and release plans
• Manage product release cycle across multiple company departments
• Write Market Requirement Documents (MRD) which clearly present a
business case
• Write Product Requirement Documents (PRD) which provide full coverage
use cases that can be used by engineering to author technical specifications
and test plans for developing, testing, and implementing product features and
functionality
• Effectively communicate with sales, marketing, engineering, technical
support and executive management to collect and disseminate product information
• Research competitors and provide comprehensive competitive product
analysis on features and product use
• Develop and facilitate internal product training, including creation of
sales tools working with product marketing
• Provide technical product data to Product Marketing for the purpose of
marketing communication
• Develop a product roadmap which clearly communicates to customers and
prospects product direction, strategy and vision
*Required Personal Skills*
• Strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively across multiple
discipline areas
• Exceptional negotiation skills with a style that promotes a free flow of
information and buy in
• Clear and concise writing ability for expressing technical and business
concepts
• Organized, methodical, process and detail oriented
• Effective facilitation skills for organizing and leading
results-oriented meetings
• Ability to create and manage detailed project plans based on input from
multiple constituencies
• Analytical strength for making business-oriented trade-off decisions in
a limited resource environment
• Team player, able to work with both technical and creative people
• Flexible and open to constructive criticism
*Required Experience*
• Five or more years of enterprise software product management
• Three or more years with a security company in a product management,
engineering or
marketing capacity
• B.S in Computer Science or other information technology field or
equivalent
*Highly Desired Experience*
• Previous high tech start-up experience
• Hands-on experience with security products such as firewalls, IDS and
SIM products
CONTACT
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Please send a WORD resume to bweaver@thedawsongroup.com
If your resume is a fit then I will contact you shortly after receipt. If it is
not a fit then I will store your resume in our database for future searches.
***All information is confidential***
Bobby Weaver
Executive Recruiter
The Dawson Group
bweaver@thedawsongroup.com
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