What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Manager position at Forcepoint?
Who is Forcepoint?
Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint's all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20 years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k customers. 300 patents. If our mission excites you, you're in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we're missing is you!
Forcepoint is looking for a data-driven and customer-focused individual for a full time Senior Product Manager role to help define our Proxy security strategy. You will partner with Design, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to accelerate market traction for our next-generation products that redefine how we protect consumers. Being at the center of technology, the business, and the end-user, you will prioritize and develop a product roadmap and guide the team towards building a meaningful experience that delights customers
What will you be doing?
- Analyze market and product trends and guide business cases for new opportunities
- Create a long-term product strategy and develop a roadmap
- You will prioritize improvements to the proxy functionality in the CASB, SWG, and ZTNA products
- Communicate requirements (through tools like Confluence/Jira) and success metrics for the product to align the team on what to provide and why it adds value
- Engage with leadership and development teams to develop and maintain a product roadmap
- Be a product and subject matter expert to help in pre- and post-sales customer engagements
What experience(s), knowledge, and education we are looking for:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- US Work Authorization is Required
- 5 years of product management experience
- Strong background in web proxies and security
- Ability to think strategically and act with urgency to bring new capabilities to the market
- Experience delivering products as cloud-based services
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) must be able to communicate at a business and technical level with internal teams, customers, partners, and executives
- Leadership, drive, passion, and charisma ability to persuade, sell ideas, and lead
- 5%-10% travel nationally
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