Product Manager – Firewall background is a must

Posted 13 Days Ago
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Milpitas, CA
Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
The Product Manager will oversee product lifecycle activities, from definition to release, while collaborating with design, engineering, and marketing teams. Responsibilities include managing product escalations, validating product direction with stakeholders, writing Agile product requirements, and promoting product strategies.
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SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on TwitterLinkedInFacebook and Instagram.

Responsibilities: 

  • Designs, develops, and manages activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life. 
  • Serves as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution.
  • An individual who has broken into the PM role in the recent past (and is either a domain expert or an MBA graduate) 
  • Plays the role of a product owner (per agile) 
  • Handles tactical responsibilities like RFE Lifecycle, Product Escalation, Beta Management, etc. 
  • Demonstrates intimate product knowledge of the competitive product landscape
  • Performs data driven analysis for making product decisions and be able to present it 
  • Validates product direction by interacting with customers and internal stakeholders 
  • Works closely with PM leaders and development teams to develop and maintain a product roadmap 
  • Writes Agile product requirements through customer journey workflows expressed in the form of user stories 
  • Serves as a product leader in pre- and post-sales customer engagements 
  • Partners with (Engineering), Sales, Marketing, Channels and Business Development teams to accelerate product adoption 
  • Solve customer problems by interfacing with technical service, production, quality assurance, and customer service.
     

Requirements:  

  • Must have a strong desire to take ownership of the full product life cycle 
  • Must have experience in Product Management
  • Very passionate and a self learner.
  • Design something new, innovative, and disruptive 
  • Subject matter experience in cloud computing, with hands-on experience across SaaS (O365, G Suite), & IaaS (AWS, Azure) is a good to have.
  • Knowledge of security solutions / technologies in Network Security or adjacent spaces (e.g., NGFW, SWG, WAF, IPS/IDS, UEBA, ML/AI)
  • Strong understanding of Firewalls, VPN, Routing and Switching.
  • Strong UI/UX experience 
  • Demonstrable track- record of success and execution 
  • Willingness to travel to meet with customers to gather insight as well as provide recommendations to make the products successful globally 
  • Proven analytical skills to understand metrics and comfortable with data  
  • Strong organizational skills. Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects and deadlines  
  • Excellent communication skills. 
  • Must be comfortable with customers and internal audiences  
  • Prior experience in finance, or similar growth or product management roles in a high-growth environment 
  • Ability to work collaboratively within and across department teams.
     

Education and Experience:  

  • Requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 7 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.


Preferences: 

  • Ideal candidates will have a degree in Engineering, Quantitative field, or equivalent degree
  • MBA is good to have.


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SonicWall is an equal opportunity employer.  

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
At SonicWall, we pride ourselves on recruiting a diverse mix of talented people and providing active security solutions in 100+ countries.

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The Company
Milpitas, CA
1,832 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1991

What We Do

SonicWall has been fighting the cyber-criminal industry for over 25 years defending small, medium-size businesses and enterprises worldwide. Backed by research from the Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Threat Network, our award-winning real-time breach detection and prevention solutions, coupled with the formidable resources of over 10,000 loyal channel partners around the globe, are the backbone securing more than a million business and mobile networks and their emails, applications and data. This combination of products and partners has enabled a real-time cyber defense solution tuned to the specific needs of the more than 500,000 global businesses in more than 215 countries and territories.

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