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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Product Manager
Location: Bay Area, California, United States
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 2006-12-20
The Sr. Product Manager will have full responsibility for product and
responsibility for defining the embedded management strategy for all Company
products. The position will work closely with engineering, sales, channel
partners and customers to bring products successfully to market.
Specific Responsibilities
- Build relationships with customers, sales team and channel partners to
understand customer and market requirements and environments.
- Develop and publish product requirements for existing and new products
including detailed feature descriptions and customer usage scenarios.
- Work with engineering team to define release themes and corresponding product
deliverables.
- Drive product from initial concept through development to timely and
successful completion.
- Attend engineering product Functional Specifications reviews and provide
detailed feedback on customer expectations.
- In addition, during the product development process, act as a field expert to
engineering as questions and deployment details are needed.
- Work with program management on product End Of Sales/End Of Life, inventory
analysis, pricing and margin analysis, and other program management activities.
- Work with marketing team on product introductions and launches.
- Act as product expert and knowledge leader internally and externally to
insure the success of the product in the defined markets.
- Provide partner management and coordination for key, relevant technology
partners in support of the product.
- Provide timely competitive analysis on products to insure Company products
are differentiated in the market
This position can be based in either our corporate office in Sunnyvale or in
our Waterloo, Ontario, Canada office.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Required Skills
- In-depth knowledge and experience with SNMP management systems, OSS’s,
patch management solutions and embedded device management technologies.
- Practical knowledge of customer deployments desired.
- Communicate and execute from senior mgmt strategic position down to detailed
tactical action plan implementation.
- Have breadth and depth of skill being both strategic and tactical in ability.
- Roll-up the sleeves attitude, yet able to scale to a strategic level of
thinking.
- Team player with strong leadership and communications skills required.
- Results oriented; is able to get things done and motivates others to action.
- Able to work across various organizations and with internal and external
customers and channel partners.
- Must have strong presentation and writing skills, being articulate and
enthusiastic.
- Some (25%) travel required, including international travel.
- Able to work independently on issues with diverse scope, analyzing various
business elements and determining how to use various resources to meet goals.
Required Experience
- Requires 8 years of experience. Must have a minimum of 4 years of relevant
product management expertise.
- An engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent is desired.
- Must have broad and deep working knowledge and experience in network security
technologies (e.g. firewall, proxies, etc)..
- Demonstrated expertise in networking technologies required.
- Demonstrated experience in working with web applications and infrastructure
required. - Demonstrate experience managing proprietary or general purpose
management products that scale to 3000+ nodes
- Demonstrated experience with Web Services
CONTACT
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Armand Daniels
adaniels@netcareers.com
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