Director, Product Management - Security

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

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Director, Product Management - Security

Security is core to Fastly’s mission of delivering a fast, engaging and safe internet experience. It is a critical component to product performance, customer experience, sales effectiveness and ultimately business results. We are looking for a seasoned Product Manager to lead a team in the execution of growth-oriented strategy for Security products and to drive customer impact. It is a highly visible and cross functional role with the opportunity to grow key business metrics with product led growth.

This position is based in San Francisco. 

What You'll Do

• You’ll develop a deep understanding of customer needs, shape and execute product roadmap with customer centric focus, considering market trends, competitive landscape and ultimately drive business impact across the entire security product suite at Fastly.
• You’ll be a strong internal advocate for customers, lead a team of product managers and liaise with other Security product managers and key stakeholders across sales, engineering and program management functions in order to deliver stellar products to Fastly’s customers to sustain revenue growth, decrease inefficiencies for Fastly’s security business and drive customer adoption and engagement
• You’ll combine qualitative research with quantitative analysis to, uncover business insights and derive clear and concise narratives that optimize our product decisions
• You’ll simplify complex or ambiguous customer needs into clear-cut, concise strategy, and are comfortable communicating this in written and visual form and into clear product requirements and drive executable initiatives
• You’ll be highly efficient in driving cross-organizational initiatives, with strong communication skills and broad understanding of Fastly’s overall business
• You’ll have high visibility in your role and you will have the opportunity to articulate security product strategy, roadmap and customer impact to the extended product and leadership teams 
• You’ll own and drive the product lifecycle from ideation through implementation and launch
• You’ll develop and lead a comprehensive go-to-market strategy while collaborating with marketing, sales, customer support teams to ensure effective product positioning, messaging, and enablement
• You’ll establish yourself as a technical expert and trusted advisor with the ability to evangelize security products to technical users, business stakeholders and industry analysts

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. MBA or advanced degree is a plus
• In depth, hands-on experience as a Product Manager in Cybersecurity or Application, Cloud, or Networking Security
• Strong technical background with a deep understanding of web applications firewalls, application security and related technologies
• Combination of deep technical acuity and a customer-focused mindset
• Demonstrated success in driving product strategy, roadmap planning and product launches
• Strong leadership capabilities with the ability to lead, mentor and motivate cross-functional teams
• Knowhow to drive monetization and business model strategy from a deep understanding of customers, markets and technologies 
• Experience aligning with cross-functional teams to launch high-impact projects
• Hands-on experience with business performance analytics and demonstrated success in growing key business metrics
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels and operate at strategic and at a tactical level
• Experience translating vision into actionable requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Get stuff done attitude with strong sense of accountability

We’d love it if you also had

• Domain knowledge of web security models, security operations, threat detection, and incident response, compliance and privacy