Product Manager

Posted:
6/19/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States ⋅ Pennsylvania, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Product

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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People.  Proofpoint.

The Role and the Team:

 Proofpoint is looking for a product management leader to add to the Proofpoint Security Awareness business unit. The Security Awareness department is responsible for delivering first-class security awareness solutions through our suite of products.  The Product Manager helps articulate a vision and translates that vision into a functional, sustainable, and technically viable product that exceeds customer expectations. This position works with cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams to connect the dots between technology, business strategy, and customer needs; develop and prioritize project plans and roadmaps. They believe in continuous improvement and strive to delight our customers in every way.

Position Description: The Product Manager will lead product management for our content experience teams, including web front-end, back-end, data, platform and enterprise integrations. They will drive product strategy across multiple agile teams to innovate and inspire changes to the product, aligning with the business unit as well as Proofpoint’s broader values and vision. The Product Manager has an inquisitive mindset and desire to continuously push to learn more and uncover growth opportunities. The ideal candidate is one who knows how to get results; is driven to create and build; is operationally credible; possesses a relentless focus on the customer; and can effectively build, inspire and lead teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Take product concepts from idea through validation, measurement, and iteration.

  • Establish best practices and processes that drive transparency and visibility for product across the organization.

  • Partner with UX and technology peers to create customer experiences that drive joy and are consistent with Proofpoint’s identity.

  • Prioritize and lead the development of new features based on Jobs to be Done, and Test and Learn practices and principles.

  • Establish best practices for developing and testing roadmaps, and hypothesis creation and analysis.

  • Work closely with leaders from UX design, analytics, engineering, and marketing to deliver extraordinary products to our customers.

  • Encourage collaboration with other Proofpoint teams. Present to senior executives and represent product strategy with key team members.

  • Build market and competitor awareness among the team.

  • Ensure direct contact with partners and customers across geographies to encourage customer empathy.

  • Set and reinforce product goals.

  • Actively monitor key business metrics and adjust team priorities as appropriate to deliver on financial and customer adoption goals.

  • Find opportunities to improve processes and focus on providing solutions and delivering results.

Required Skills:

  • Exceptional relationship building skills; ability to work cross-functionally across teams to align different groups to common goals and ensure delivery of a cohesive, integrated roadmap Ability to motivate and inspire the team to overcome challenges and focus on problem-solving

  • Ability to focus on the customer and think long-term to build products that perform well and scale efficiently but not at the expense of innovation In-depth knowledge of Jobs

  • To Be Done and Test and Learn methodologies and approaches needed to get things done in a collaborative, lean and fast-moving environment

  • Lead mostly with questions rather than opinions, thriving on the opportunity to own, innovate, create, and constantly re-evaluate

  • Comfortable making recommendations across competing and equally critical business needs Simplify, clearly and succinctly to convey complex information and ideas to individuals at all levels of the organization

Qualifications:  

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business,

  • Computer Science or Engineering, MBA or Master’s degree preferred

  • 2+ years in product management with experience collaboration, digital content services, data security, gaming, mobile marketing, and cloud in an enterprise environment

    Why Proofpoint
    Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

    We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.

Base Pay Ranges:

SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:

Base Pay Range: 116,690.00 - 183,370.00 USD

California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:

Base Pay Range: 96,880.00 - 152,240.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 87,220.00 - 137,060.00 USD

Proofpoint

Website: https://www.proofpoint.com/

Headquarter Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Employee Count: 1001-5000

Year Founded: 2002

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

Industries: Email ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Network Security ⋅ SaaS