Product Manager for Hybrid Anti-DDoS Solutions

Nsfocus - Santa Clara, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Santa Clara, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As the Product Manager for Hybrid Anti-DDoS solutions at NSFOCUS, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the vision and roadmap for our DDoS protection business. This position requires a strategic mindset to build and manage a portfolio that not only meets market demands but also drives business success. You will be responsible for creating comprehensive product requirements and developing market strategies that encompass short, mid, and long-term roadmaps. Your role will also involve designing pricing and competitive strategies while overseeing the entire product lifecycle from inception to delivery. Collaboration is key in this role. You will work closely with various teams, including sales, customer success, cloud, and R&D, to ensure successful implementation and monitoring of NSFOCUS security products. Engaging with potential customers and partners will be essential to facilitate effective product delivery. You will conduct thorough market research, direct product schedules, and organize interdepartmental activities to ensure timely completion of projects. In addition to product management, you will be tasked with enhancing the user experience by designing and expanding the product's front-end interface, providing visibility into network traffic, DDoS attacks, and security management. You will also define API interfaces for seamless interaction between multiple product components. Working alongside the management team, you will help define business strategies and goals related to DDoS protection solutions, ensuring alignment with the company's vision and maintaining transparency in feature release schedules. This role will also involve managing related products at various stages of their lifecycle, making adaptability and foresight crucial attributes for success.

Responsibilities

• Create the product requirements and develop market strategy with short/mid/long term roadmaps.
• Design the pricing strategy and competitive strategy, overseeing the products throughout their entire lifecycle.
• Collaborate with the sales team, sales engineers, customer success team, cloud team, and R&D.
• Engage with potential customers and partners for successful implementation, delivery, and monitoring of NSFOCUS security products.
• Perform marketing research, direct product schedules, and organize interdepartmental activities to ensure timely product completion.
• Work with the team to design and expand the product's front look and feel for visibility into network traffic, DDoS attacks, and security management.
• Determine the API interfaces for multiple components of the product to interact effectively.
• Work with the management team to define business strategy and goals around DDoS protection solutions.
• Motivate yourself and others as a true team player, collaborating well in a global team environment.
• Maintain transparency and align feature release schedules with the company vision.
• Manage related products in different stages of their lifecycle.

Requirements

• 5+ years of direct experience in network security as product management, security architect, solutions architect, or systems engineer.
• Hands-on working knowledge of DDoS on-prem solutions and DDoS in the cloud solutions.
• Experience in security-related SaaS or IaaS is a plus.
• Proven experience in driving business plans, product roadmaps, and assessing performance against metrics and project milestones.
• Conduct comparative analysis and research to determine investment alternatives and product plans and messaging.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both written and verbal forms, suitable for both executives and engineers.
• Experience with BGP, TCP, web application protection, packet inspection, routers, VPNs, and network monitoring.
• Ability to analyze network performance is required.
• Experience with agile development using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Git is a plus.
• Fluency in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese (native or bilingual proficiency) is a plus.
• CISSP or any other relevant certification is a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in security-related SaaS or IaaS is a plus.
• Experience with agile development using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Git is a plus.
• Fluency in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese (native or bilingual proficiency) is a plus.
• CISSP or any other relevant certification is a plus.