Description of the position
backProduct Manager.
Stimulating. Motivating. Challenging.
Kudelski Security, a division of the Kudelski Group (SIX: KUD.S), is an innovative, independent Swiss provider of tailored cyber and media security solutions to enterprises and public sector institutions.
Our team of security experts delivers end-to-end consulting, technology, managed services, and threat intelligence to help organizations build and run successful security programs.
Our global reach and cyber solutions focus is reinforced by key international partnerships.
Kudelski Security is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona and Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information, please visit: www.kudelskisecurity.com
Location: Cheseaux, Switzerland
Mission
After significant growth in its MSS business, Kudelski Security needs market-focused product manager to drive the business by identifying market opportunities, documenting market requirements, serving as the “voice of the customer” to the engineering team and representing Kudelski Security to our customers.
The product manager leads both inbound and outbound product management activities including measuring business performance, defining product use cases, prioritizing feature requests, building consensus for solution vision, analyzing competitive offerings, driving sales enablement, and helping to define and execute go-to-market activities.
In this global role, the product manager must be able to travel internationally to meet with development teams, present to customers at executive briefing center in Phoenix and meet with customers at their location.
Responsibilities
- Identify market problems and opportunities via client interaction and research
- Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
- Work with executives to define business objectives and priorities for the portfolio
- Define and manage solution roadmap by building consensus across executives, engineering leaders, architects and the PM team
- Work with engineering leads, architects and agile product owners to define and refine product requirements, including creating and refining agile minimal marketable features (MMFs) or epics
- Drive the product feature request review process for the offering. Work with clients, Kudelski Security analysts who respond to events, and other internal teams (business unit executives, sales, SEs and technical support) to align priorities and communicate roadmaps
- Be a subject matter expert on managed security services for sales, sales engineers, partners and customers
- Meet with customers, sales teams, business partners and other industry sources to identify functional requirements, evangelize the value proposition, and communicate the product roadmap and vision
- Work with Solution Marketing to define and execute a Go-To-Market plans
- Ability to resolve complex problems that require resolution with various stakeholders which often have little or no organizational precedent
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned
Requirements / Profile
- Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Engineering, Computer Science) or related field equivalent experience
- MBA preferred
- 1+ years experience in product management
- Strong Asset: experienced in the cyber-security ecosystem
- Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong communication and writing skills with emphasis on technology
- Requires some traveling: (25-30%)
- Strong accountability and project management for tasks without close supervision
- Demonstrated strength in analytical thinking
- Experience with cyber security or managed security services is a plus
- Understanding and experience with Agile product development practices is a plus
Reference: 12820
Publication Date: 05-05-2022
