Product Manager - Security Planning

Dell Technologies•Round Rock, TX

About The Position

The Product Manager owns security product management for Dell Server and rack-scale products across feature development, launch, in-market management, and end of security support. The role translates customer, business, regulatory, and threat-driven requirements into product priorities and lifecycle decisions. It drives delivery and launch readiness, go-to-market messaging, enhancements for shipping products, vulnerability response, customer escalations, and ongoing security support. The position collaborates across engineering, security, marketing, sales, support, program management, architecture, compliance, and external technology partners, and uses in-market insights to inform future product requirements and security planning. The role also owns the Secure Enterprise Key Manager (SEKM) offering across its lifecycle, including strategy, roadmap, delivery, go-to-market, adoption, and support. It partners with external key-management-system vendors and internal iDRAC engineering teams, defines requirements and interoperability expectations, coordinates releases and issue resolution, and develops positioning and enablement materials. For PowerEdge server BIOS, the role owns planning, development, launch, and in-market support. It tracks CPU technology roadmaps, identifies processor features for PowerEdge BIOS, clarifies product positioning, collaborates on customer-focused BIOS profiles and workload configurations, and develops performance recommendations, documentation, launch content, and field guidance. It incorporates customer feedback and balances security, performance, manageability, power, compatibility, cost, and time-to-market in long-range planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical discipline.
8+ years of experience in product management, technical program management, hardware planning, platform architecture, infrastructure engineering, security engineering, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience managing products or platforms across planning, development, launch, and in-market support.
Experience driving cross-functional initiatives across engineering, security, marketing, sales, support, and program management organizations.
Strong understanding of server architecture, PowerEdge platforms, iDRAC, BIOS, firmware, and data-center infrastructure.
Working knowledge of enterprise security technologies, including secure boot, hardware root of trust, hardware attestation, secure firmware, identity and key management, memory encryption, confidential computing, and trusted execution environments.
Understanding of vulnerability response, security lifecycle management, threat modeling, risk assessment, and customer escalation management.
Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into product requirements, roadmap decisions, positioning, technical messaging, and customer-facing documentation.
Ability to evaluate security, performance, interoperability, operational, and business tradeoffs.
Exceptional communication, storytelling, stakeholder-management, and executive-presentation skills.
Proven ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across highly technical and geographically distributed teams.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including prioritizing ambiguous or competing requests.
Ability to operate effectively in a rapidly evolving security, regulatory, and technology environment.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Business Administration, or a related field.
Experience working directly with CPU, silicon, firmware, BIOS, key-management, or security-technology vendors.
Experience with iDRAC, enterprise key-management systems, KMIP or comparable interoperability standards, or server BIOS product management.
Experience with AI infrastructure, rack-scale systems, accelerator-rich platforms, or large-scale data-center environments.
Familiarity with global security and regulatory frameworks, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2, FIPS 140-3, ISO 27001, Common Criteria, and supply-chain risk-management frameworks.
Experience developing multi-year product strategies, technology roadmaps, business cases, and investment recommendations.
Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Own security product management for Server and rack-scale products through feature development, launch, in-market management, and end of security support.
Drive delivery execution, launch readiness, release coordination, and lifecycle governance for security capabilities.
Develop go-to-market messaging and partner with technical marketing to create technically accurate product-security messaging assets.
Prioritize enhancements and new-feature requests for shipping products using customer value, security risk, regulatory requirements, market needs, technical feasibility, and business impact.
Coordinate vulnerability response with security, engineering, support, communications, and program teams.
Resolve customer and partner escalations, establish action plans, and ensure timely communication and closure.
Manage ongoing security support, lifecycle risks, supportability, customer communications, and end-of-security-support planning.
Work with the security planner to incorporate in-market insights, customer feedback, emerging threats, and regulatory developments into future requirements and roadmaps.
Build stakeholder alignment across competing technical, operational, and business priorities, influencing without direct authority.
Own the Secure Enterprise Key Manager offering across product strategy, roadmap development, delivery, go-to-market, adoption, and ongoing support.
Partner with external key-management-system vendors and internal iDRAC engineering teams, where the SEKM client resides in iDRAC and development is delivered through the iDRAC organization.
Define requirements and interoperability expectations for secure key-management workflows across supported Dell platforms and partner solutions.
Prioritize SEKM enhancements and capabilities based on security, compliance, interoperability, customer adoption, partner input, and market requirements.
Coordinate SEKM releases, dependencies, launch readiness, and in-market issue resolution across product, engineering, security, vendors, and support teams.
Develop SEKM product positioning, technical messaging, and enablement materials for sales, solution architects, support, and partners.
Manage customer and partner escalations, including cross-vendor issues requiring coordinated technical and business resolution.
Ensure SEKM continues to meet evolving security, compliance, interoperability, and customer needs.
Own the PowerEdge server BIOS offering across planning, development, launch, and in-market support.
Track CPU technology roadmaps and determine which processor features should be implemented or enabled in PowerEdge BIOS.
Clarify product positioning when CPU-vendor capabilities overlap with Dell BIOS features or differentiated Dell value.
Partner with BIOS engineering, technologists, performance teams, architecture, and product teams to define and validate customer-focused BIOS profiles and workload configurations.
Drive performance recommendations, technical documentation, launch content, and field guidance explaining BIOS capabilities and configuration tradeoffs.
Address customer requests and escalations, translate feedback into actionable requirements, and prioritize capabilities for shipping products.
Drive long-range planning with BIOS technologists and cross-functional product teams, balancing security, performance, manageability, power, compatibility, cost, and time-to-market.