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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. 

The Role

As a Senior Product Manager within Proofpoint, you are the ultimate owner of the product portfolio you manage and the person responsible for driving the success of your product through research, development, market positioning, and customer evangelization. Our team seeks a Senior Product Manager with a passion for developing creative solutions that solve customer problems in the email authentication & digital risk space to work out of our Denver, Colorado or Sunnyvale, CA locations. You will work with our talented engineering team within our business unit, supported by partner engineering groups across the company, to advance our industry-leading product: Email Fraud Defense (EFD), a high visibility/high growth product (with a 90-point Net Promoter Score in Proofpoint’s award-winning security products portfolio) which helps customers manage their email traffic by ensuring proper visibility to email authentication, deliverability, and domain impersonation problems. EFD is an industry-leading product, used by over 400 of the Fortune 1000 companies today.

Our ideal candidate:

Self-driven and results-oriented, bringing strong technical knowledge together with a customer-focused mindset to build great products.

Possesses a strong data-driven mindset will help to ensure that appropriate informed decisions are made when trade-offs are required.

Harnesses strong business acumen to ensure that product strategy matches with both current and future customer needs.

Your day-to-day

Focus on defining & executing the product roadmap for Proofpoint’s cloud-based Email Fraud Defense product:

Work directly with key Proofpoint customers and internal stakeholders to develop, prioritize & refine product requirements

Represent your product’s strategic direction both internally and with customers

Evaluate market, competitive, and pricing trends, working with marketing and field sales to refine go to market strategy and materials

Provide clarity and implementation guidance to roadmap feature areas with development and quality assurance teams

Work closely with our passionate sales overlay team to understand and internalize customer feedback & objections

Partner with our professional services team who supports our solutions, ensuring their needs are accounted for within roadmap plans.

Develop training on new capabilities & changes to both internal and external stakeholders

Maintain competitive intelligence for use within the organization

Present EFDs value & benefits to customers, partners, and internal stakeholders

What you bring to the team

Demonstrated experience launching and managing SaaS-based products, features, or services

Knowledge of email authentication and domain name service (DNS) related technologies, including SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC, BIMI, and/or Domain Name Service (DNS).

Knowledge of WHOIS, domain reputation, SSL/TLS PKI, and Internet security concepts.

Experience coordinating with internal support and field teams, partners, and customers to validate solution direction and functionality

Successful track record working with field pre-sales and engineering teams to define or deliver coherent solutions that provide strong customer value

Prior involvement with security-related application and/or cloud software development

Strong written skills; experience creating field-facing documentation and presentation materials

Minimum 5 years product management experience

MBA or relevant PM work history

Fluent in English, valid passport with ability to travel to domestic and international destinations

Why Proofpoint

As a customer focused and driven-to-win organization with leading edge products, there are many exciting reasons to join the Proofpoint team. We believe in hiring the best the brightest and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. As we continue to grow and expand globally, we understand that hiring the right people and developing great teams is key to our success! We are a multi-national company with locations in many countries, with each location contributing to Proofpoint’s amazing culture!  #LI-AN1

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: 157,650.00 - 231,220.00 USD

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

Base Pay Range: 129,000.00 - 189,200.00 USD

All other cities and states excluding those listed above:

Base Pay Range: 117,600.00 - 172,480.00 USD