Technical Product Manager

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The Technical Product Manager will be responsible for driving all technical activities related to their assigned security product within the portfolio - this role acts as the CTO of the product. This includes accountability for completing new technical features on time and within budget in coordination with business peers by managing expectations and ensuring communications with development resources. Further, this role will be accountable for understanding and providing direction/timeline for the resolution of defects and production issues.

The candidate will also be responsible for their roadmap related to the product(s) they support to drive technical requirements, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of product features, and work with a cross-functional group of stakeholders to drive those efforts.

The ideal candidate will have a strong passion for technology, infrastructure, scalability, and simplicity. The resource will be able to build new and leverage existing relationships to drive the successful delivery of the product and ensure the business can maintain a positive customer experience.

Responsibilities will include:

• Delivering new products and features on-time and in-budget

• Identifying options and providing recommendations to resolve production issues

• Implementing embedded security within the network strategies and approaches

• Working in an agile environment with development and customer-facing organizations such as marketing and agencies

• Collaborating with business product management and marketing execution organizations to co-develop a roadmap

• Leading and participating on cross-functional teams to execute multi-channel strategies

• Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including Development, GNT, Regulatory, Legal, IT, Operations, etc.

• Preparing and delivering executive communications for both business and technical leadership

• Benchmarking competition, evaluating new industry trends, and shaping future digital strategies that will drive future growth

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree in technical field or 4 years of equivalent work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant work experience.

• Demonstrated knowledge of managed services, or managed security.

• Experience with launching products in an agile environment

• Five or more years of relevant work experience working with customers.

• Product Management / Development experience

• Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, or similar product/project and documentation management tools

• G-Suite and Microsoft Office

• Strong project management skills.

Even better if you have:

• Master's degree in technical field

• Hands-on experience in one or a few areas : SASE, SDWAN, MXDR solution, Threat detection and response.

• Proven experience in operating infrastructure in one of the hyperscale environment : AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP

• Four or more years of Product Management / Development experience

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Product and/or customer support experience

• Knowledge of Verizon front-end and back-end infrastructure

• Agile Business experience

• Strong business case skills.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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