Senior Product Manager – Network Embedded Security Products

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing...

We are looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to manage the evolution of network embedded security products and services. These products and services will be harnessing the broader Verizon’s business product portfolio to create a new class of security capabilities to help protect Verizon’s business customers. These technologies will provide companies, big and small, with the next generation of threat protection with real-time automation and a suite of managed services.

You will be a critical part of the Verizon Business Group’s Security Technology Enablement team that collaborates with the Product & Marketing Organization to bring the next generation of efficient and effective security product platforms to market. You will work across engineering, business development, and product & marketing teams to set strategy, define the product specifications, and make the difficult, high-judgment trade-offs between features and time-to-market. You will partner with the leaders of the organization to ensure the developer experience, programming model, scalability and reliability promises, and cost efficiency delight our customers.

As a seasoned technical product manager, you will:

• Apply your knowledge of the market, the product, the competition, and learnings from early customers to build and iterate on product strategy.

• Drive product development across teams (primarily Engineering, Customer Design/Experience, Operations, Product Management, Business Development, and Marketing) by developing Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) that will include functional requirements, design, implementation, and deployment details.

• Evaluate industry innovations and technology platforms and identify product partnership and collaboration opportunities to accelerate and or address gaps in the product portfolio.

• Own designing business models, costing, target segments, customer profiles, execution plan and operating models for services and platforms.

• Think digitally regarding product, sales, customer, and full life cycle experience with the goal of improving the customer experience from beginning to end.

• Author collateral, FAQs, white papers, and presentations that can be leveraged across Verizon, external partners, and customers.

• Interact with senior level executives within Verizon and its customers, and therefore must be an exceptional communicator.

What we’re looking for...

You'll need to have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology or computer science, or four or more significant work experience in technology industry or function

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience working with Product Marketing, Sales, Development and UX/UI teams to bring new products/features to market.

• Ability to work to completion without direction.

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills - ability to use data to develop and measure go to market programs.

• Strong technical knowledge of threat detection technologies (Firewall, Anti-Virus,IPS), security incident response and cloud computing.

• Knowledge of Cloud technologies, application orchestration, networking, telecom and IoT business models.

• Ability in delivering quickly and collaboratively.

• Ability to take ownership and be accountable for the quality of all deliverables.

Even better if you have:

• An MBA, preferably from a top tier university.

• Ten or more years of demonstrated full-lifecycle ownership of product development, with cross team and cross discipline execution, either directly or as an organizational leader.

• An understanding of the Verizon mobile network and how to leverage it to bring new security services to market.

• Ability to conceptualize new, innovative applications/services and justify design, build, and/or buy decisions using solid ROI analysis.

• Knowledge of business objectives and being creative enough to help define what we build, with demonstrated experience leading product efforts.

• Communication skills to manage the large degree of external interaction with customers and partners the role needs.

• Ability to lead/supervise multiple projects, also performs project management activities such as planning, sizing, configuration, resources and scheduling.

• Decision-making skills in situations that impact projects and staff members.

• Knowledge of products and technologies across Verizon and how they may strategically align with projects.

• Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.

• Published industry papers/documents/literature and/or hold relevant patents.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

This role is open to US Verizon Hub locations, must be available to work EST hours.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

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Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefits, short term incentives, 401(k) Savings Plan, stock incentive programs, paid time off, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

If you are hired into a California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington or Washington, D.C. work location, the compensation range for this position is between $119,000.00 and $221,000.00 annually based on a full-time schedule. The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.