Senior Product Marketing Manager – Email Security

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Corporate Overview

In today’s cyber threat landscape, protection starts with people. At Proofpoint, that simple truth fuels our passion for protecting users, the data they create, and the systems they rely on from a uniquely people-centric perspective.

And we’re just as passionate about finding the right people to help us in that mission. When you join Proofpoint, you’re helping to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform
• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud environment
• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges

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—and why more than half of the Fortune 100 trust us as a security partner.

The Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented and experienced Senior Product Marketing Manager to join our dynamic product marketing team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic marketing plans to promote our email security products. Your role will be critical in defining our go-to-market strategies, positioning our products and services effectively, and driving successful product and market awareness for our email security solutions. 

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, corporate marketing, and sales, to ensure that our products and services meet the needs of our target customers and remain competitive in the market. 

Your Day-to-Day  

• Market Research: Conduct in-depth research to understand market trends, customer needs, and our competitive landscape. Be an expert on our competition and how they are positioned. Translate this knowledge into actionable insights for sales, customer success, corporate marketing, product management and more. 

• Positioning and Messaging: Be the expert on our buyers – who they are, how they buy, and their buying criteria. Craft clear and concise messaging, positioned against trends observed among our prospects and customers. Messaging will emphasize our differentiators in order to develop a compelling narrative that resonates with our target audience.  

• Launch Execution: In partnership with product management, corporate marketing, competitive intelligence, and sales teams, lead the planning and launch of new capabilities, releases, and manage the cross-functional execution of the plan. Support incremental updates and feature launches throughout the year with end-to-end launch strategy in order to generate awareness and drive demand.  

• Sales Enablement: Understand and support our direct and indirect sales channels; create and deliver effective enablement knowledge, content, and tools that help sellers identify opportunities and communicate our unique value. 

• Content Creation: Create compelling content including product presentations, videos, blogs, collateral (e.g., datasheets, solution briefs), byline articles, and more to effectively communicate the value of products and solutions to customers and prospects and accelerate the buyer’s journey. Highly experienced content presenter to internal and external audiences, including sales training, user conferences, webinars, industry conferences, and analyst briefings. 

• Collaboration: Build strong working relationships and collaborate closely with product management, corporate marketing, competitive intelligence, and sales teams to ensure alignment on release benefits in order to achieve business goals. Act as a bridge between technical teams and customers. 

• Customer Advocacy: Identify and leverage customer success stories and testimonials to strengthen our marketing efforts and showcase the impact of our product and services updates. 

What You Bring to the Team  

• Product Marketing & Cybersecurity Expertise: 8+ years of experience in product marketing. Email security, cybersecurity, or enterprise IT experience strongly preferred. 

• Cybersecurity Market Understanding: Strong understanding of one or more email security, cybersecurity or enterprise IT, including trends, and customer pain points. 

• Cybersecurity Product Aptitude: In depth familiarity with cybersecurity products and a willingness to learn and understand the technical aspects of our products to create content, including demonstrations. 

• Market-Centric: Proven experience marketing to enterpri