Director of Product Marketing

Fortinet • Sunnyvale, CA

16d • Onsite

About The Position

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 500,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. We are looking for a Director of Product Marketing to join our dynamic Fortinet team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the company’s data protection solutions as part of our Unified client and SASE strategy. It will play a critical role in contributing to successful product launches and long term sales and revenue generation goals. The successful candidate will have opportunities to drive cross functional teams and develop strong relationships with the sales team to create compelling tools, platforms and messaging.

Requirements

• 5 – 8 years product marketing
• Strong technology background Network DLP, Endpoint DLP, SSE, CASB and NGFW
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work both independently and on cross functional teams.
• Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organization, including remote areas.
• Ability to function well in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred experience in especially in Data Protection and Insider Risk Management domain

Responsibilities

• Create and implement product marketing content, including white papers, brochures, data sheets, solutions guides.
• Articulate benefits, via marketing collateral and in-person meetings, to Fortinet enterprise customers, channel partners and MSSP customers.
• Develop tools to support sales on product roll out for emerging technologies
• Support R&D with market analysis for new initiatives and products
• Develop product positioning and competitive analysis to support Fortinet sales and channel partners
• Develop reseller partner focused plans to enable growth in channel markets by working closely with Channel sales and marketing teams
• Coordinate launch initiatives with PR/AR/IR and act as spokesperson for product
• Lead cross-department product teams to launch products
• Support related activities owned by other groups (case studies, references, trade shows, events, technical white papers, SE training, etc.)
• Collaborate with alliance partners and services to offer complete solutions
• Interface and partner effectively with the product management team

Benefits

• Fortinet offers employees a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k), 11 paid holidays, vacation time, and sick time as well as a comprehensive leave program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees