Application Security Product Manager

Location: Bangalore - Indraprastha, India

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

We are looking for a Product Manager for our Application Security __________ Group.
As a Lead Product Manager you will help us drive the platform growth and scale as we expand our customer base and launch new products to the market. In addition you will be responsible for building new features based on real market problems and increase the profitability of existing products and features.
You will guide a team that is responsible for building the foundations for all current and future Imperva products, and creating a unified open platform that connects the best-of-breed cyber security products.
You should be prepared to make decisions with imperfect information, know how to lead without authority, and be comfortable managing chaos, ambiguity, and complexity. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy that includes a big-picture vision and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must also enjoy spending time in the market to understand market problems, and finding innovative solutions for the broader market.
Communication skills are key to success in this role. You must be prepared to communicate with all areas of the company.
You’ll work with Technical Product Managers as an interface in front of the R&D to implement new features and products which would allow you to focus on the strategy and vision

Responsibilities

• Act as the "mini CEO" of the AppSec

• Establish and drive the  vision and strategy

• Evangelize the platform’s benefits to potential users, partners, and developers, driving adoption and fostering a vibrant community around the platform

• Work with different business level stakeholders to gather requirements and clearly articulate the your vision, strategy and roadmap

• Bring in the market requirements and prioritize them

• Overseeing the platform’s design and development. You must work closely with the technical team to ensure the platform’s architecture supports scalability, modularity, and security

• Closely work with the technical team to articulate the product and platform requirements in a way that meets customer needs

• Manage new features lifecycle from concept ideation to end-of-life

• Manage and expand the platform ecosystem. work to attract and retain developers and technological partners, facilitating their success on the platform

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure the success of the platform

• Know why we are winning and losing in the market, and drive changes to our product and processes to create improvement

• Collaborate with other product managers and product marketing on the creation of positioning for your feature-set 

• Work collaboratively with engineering, and other functional teams.

• Develop innovative solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of enterprise products product management experience 

• Experience driving the product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.

• Experience in leading products in the cyber-security space - advantage

• Experience in working on B2B SaaS products 

• Experience and knowledge in modern architecture and cloud technologies.

• Experience in working with modern Agile methodology (e.g. SAFE)

• Experience working with and understanding the needs of customers or internal stakeholders

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, to be able to interact at all levels and be effective as part of a broader team

• Ability to lead a cross-functional team through influence, and to engage with senior leadership

• Ability to manage expectations and handle high-pressure situations with tight deadlines

• Proven analytical skills decision-making ability based on quantitative and qualitative data

• Travel of about 3-4 weeks each year

• This role is for an IC

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