Product Manager

Summary

Join SonicWall, a cybersecurity leader, as a Product Manager! You will design, develop, and manage product lifecycles, from conception to end-of-life. This role requires strong product management experience, a deep understanding of security solutions, and excellent communication skills. You will collaborate with various teams, analyze data to drive product decisions, and engage with customers. A minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree is required. The position offers the opportunity to work remotely and contribute to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideal candidates will have a degree in Engineering, Quantitative field, or equivalent degree
• MBA is good to have
• Subject matter experience in cloud computing, with hands-on experience across SaaS (O365, G Suite), & IaaS (AWS, Azure) is a good to have

Benefits

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