Product Manager Venafi

Reports to: Director, Product Management

Job Code: 2100-1112-05
Job Descriptions:

The Product Manager is responsible for delivering market-leading products that exceed company and customer objectives, working very closely with all stakeholders, including engineering, quality assurance, documentation, sales, sales engineering, support, professional services and marketing. The Product Manager will act as a key innovator and contributor in the features and presentation of the product.
Responsibilities:

Perform detailed and rationalized market research, including competitive analysis, market trends, business opportunities and other success factors.
Develop detailed product requirement documents to ensure product delivery consistent with expectations.
Participate in all aspects of product development cycle./li>
Work closely with engineering and quality assurance to communicate customer needs, adjust requirements based on technical feedback, prioritize requirements, and manage changing priorities.
Research, learn and implement new technologies to develop background for successful product definition.
Employ and develop product planning and management best practices, establishing and executing reliable processes for collecting and prioritizing customer/market requirements.
Establish and maintain a strong relationship with customer facing staff as a key resource to address critical pre- and post-sales customer product issues and ultimately help drive product sales engagements to closure.
Act as primary product evangelist for the sales, customers, and the market.
Constructively raise relevant issues and risks to management and/or other corporate groups to assure they are addressed quickly.

Required Skills & Knowledge:

Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent).
Minimum 3 years of directly related experience.
Strong general technical competency required.
Must be self-starting, hard-working and inquisitive.
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent presentation and Powerpoint skills.
Proven track record for high quality product delivery.
In-depth understanding of the software development cycle.
Strong leadership, time management and problem solving skills.
Must work well with others of all personality types in an intense environment.
Teamwork, attention to detail, and great communication skills are a required.
Driven, creative, and results oriented.

Preferred Experience:

Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) including technology, standards, and implementations.
Symmetric and asymmetric encryption key technology and use.
User interaction and UI design experience is a plus.
Datacenter application and network infrastructure knowledge is a plus.

Company Overview:

Venafi, Inc. delivers industry-leading encryption management products and solutions and is deployed in some of the world?s largest companies, including financial services (4 of the top 10), telecommunications (3 of the world?s largest), healthcare, retail, aerospace, and others. Venafi products provide turn-key management of encryption keys and certificates, including discovery, monitoring, enrollment, and provisioning across a broad number of platforms/applications and certificate authorities. The tangible business values for Venafi customers include improved data security and compliance, reduced system failures (caused by mismanaged encryption), and increased operational efficiency. Venafi has been recognized by leading industry analysts and publications as being the leader in this field. For more information, go to www.venafi.com.

Venafi is looking for highly motivated, self-starting, top performing individuals to help further grow its leadership position in the rapidly expanding enterprise key and certificate management (EKCM) market and support the needs of its growing customer base. Venafi offers a strong team environment that encourages excellence, seeks out and rewards individual contributions, and provides opportunities for personal and professional development. A competitive, comprehensive benefits package is offered to full-time employees.

Location:	9350 South 150 East Suite 910 Sandy, UT 84070 United States