Product Manager for Business Security Solutions

• Job location: Bratislava
• Work time: Full time
• Contract type: Fixed term

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As the Product Manager, you will not only lead a critical products, services and processes, but also have a remarkable chance to showcase your skills to our top management. This role offers more than just a job; it's an opportunity to strategically shape the future of our company, particularly in the crucial B2B segment. Join us and be at the forefront of innovation, making a significant impact on cybersecurity!

Within your role, you will constantly think how to solve market or technical problems in the assigned area of product during all stages of product life cycle. Your job will include quantitative and qualitative market and customer research to perform independent opportunity assessment. You will act as a customer advocate, putting customer needs first and working to deliver solutions deemed to be best for customer.

You will be fully responsible for defining the product vision, goals, strategy and roadmap of specific set of security products or services. You will be expected to actively lead discussions and cooperation with internal experts in their respective fields from Product Management, development, interaction design, marketing, sales, and other supporting teams as well as external experts (consultants, analysts, etc.).

You will by reaching out to technical people in charge of security within the organization - to gather and understand their specific problems and needs. Then, your focus will be put into transferring gathered market knowledge into structured and prioritized business and product requirements with one goal that you should keep in mind all the time - to assure success and competitiveness of the product on the security market. You will be fully responsible for creation, maintenance and prioritization of product backlog of business and technical requirements for development teams considering market needs and companywide business strategies. 

You will be co-responsible for commercial success of specific product and services, and your role will be to execute strategic, operative and technical product life-cycle activities leading to that success. 

You will autonomously manage all stages of product life cycle of selected products,  services, and accompanying processes in accordance to corporate, portfolio and product strategies and goals. You will be responsible for defining and maintaining the life-cycle process, which Product Managers and product teams will adhere to and you will contribute to the operational efficiency by relieving the teams from supporting and maintaining outdated products and product versions.

Additionally, your responsibility will be to present core values and benefits of specific product or release to internal teams, business partners or business end customers. You will perform regular evaluation of product success on the market and you will define specific product goals, KPIs and feature improvements. 

Responsibilities: 

• Develop own market knowledge by monitoring relevant markets, technological trends and business models. Execute ongoing user research to build own market knowledge. Identify and articulate unresolved market problems. Perform an independent opportunity assessment. 

• Define goals and strategies for assigned products and services. Define formalized business and product requirements and communicate and maintain them to the rest of the organization and external stakeholders. 

• Expand the product knowledge including the technical aspects of individual features of products.

• Be responsible for the complete life-cycle process of a product portfolio. Define and maintain the product life-cycle process and End-of-Life policy. Propose optimizations of existing processes and systems and be actively involved in the process of change.

• Drive cooperation on achieving product targets with other product managers as well as with other relevant teams and other key stakeholders across the company.

• Adhere to Product Management processes and frameworks. Participate in the preparation of materials and inputs for Product Management initiatives and activities.

• Maintain and update product roadmaps. Create and maintain product and service documentation (e.g., product bulletins). 

Personality requirements and skills:

• Previous working experience in IT/technology/software company is required; ideally at least 2 years of experience as a technology Product Manager or a similar (product related) role 

• Business customer orientation and proven ability to properly understand business customer needs is required 

• Strong communication and presentation skills to various audiences in English is required 

• Extensive experience with working in a team 

• Previous Product Management job related to cybersecurity is a significant advantage 

• Previous experience in Business-to-Business is an advantage 

• Previous working experience with administration of enterprise network or endpoint security is an advantage

• Dedication, excellent attitude towards the goals, passion about the product and its broader context are key values of the suitable candidate 

• Ability to manage strategic and operational challenges

Employee perks, benefits 

• please visit our website: https://www.eset.com/sk/o-nas/kariera/benefity/  

Basic wage component (brutto): from 2600 EUR  

* The final basic wage component can be increased accordingly to individual skills and experience of the selected candidate. 

* Performance bonus 2 times per year up to 10% of the basic salary paid for the evaluation period(usually 6 months). 

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