Director of Product Management (Application Acceleration and Security)

Role Overview

Director of Product Management responsible for end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and commercial success for two product pillars:

• Application Acceleration
• Application Security

You will drive platform convergence, build alignment across large organizations, and ensure solutions are both technically superior and financially optimized.

Key Missions

• Define a long-term vision for Application Acceleration and Application Security business units, ensuring smooth integration within broader SASE frameworks.
• Lead the evolution of firewall capabilities, including:
  • WAF
  • NGFW
  • Distributed cloud firewalls for modern distributed workloads
• Establish and maintain a “Competitive Moat” to sustain technical differentiation versus both legacy and emerging competitors.

Responsibilities / Leadership Outcomes

• Influence stakeholders and “influence the influencers” to drive alignment without direct authority.
• Foster rigorous product evaluation practices and strategic influence.
• Manage product financials, including gross margin analysis and unit economics.
• Build products from the ground up to meaningful revenue and optimize existing high-scale product lines.
• Navigate mergers and acquisitions, merging disparate policy interfaces into a unified platform experience.
• Conduct or support AI model evaluations (writing and refining evaluation approaches).

Requirements

• 10+ years in Product Management, including 5+ years in senior leadership.
• Deep technical fluency in network security, including SASE architecture, Next-Generation Firewalls, WAF, edge computing, and bot management.
• Proven track record managing product financials (gross margin, unit economics).
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (Computer Engineering/Computer Science or related).
• Experience with AI model evaluations.
• Proven ability to build and grow products (new and existing) to significant revenue.
• Experience with M&A integration, especially unifying policy interfaces.
• MBA.

Nice-to-Haves / Bonus

• Demonstrated success persuading external stakeholders/partners to align to strategy without direct incentives.
• Identifying market gaps in SASE—especially convergence of SD-WAN, ZTNA, and Cloud Firewall capabilities.