Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Competitive Marketing Manager, Data Protection
McAfee Overview:
McAfee is the world's largest dedicated security company and offers one of the best places for your career in the security space. 12 straight quarters of growth, one of the broadest security portfolios, a new and seasoned executive management team, sound financial position (no debt, $1B+ cash, over $400 million free cash flow), and a global brand & footprint are just a few reasons why McAfee is attracting strong talent in the industry.
McAfee’s Security Risk Management strategy protects customers from the risk of security threats as well as from the risk of non-compliance. McAfee solutions are divided into four broad categories:
o Endpoint security - Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Host IPS, Desktop Firewall, Mobile security
o Network Security - Network IPS, Network Access Control, Web & Email security, UTM
o Data Security – Endpoint Encryption, Data Loss Prevention (Host & Network), Device Management
o Risk & Compliance – Vulnerability Management, Policy Audit & Remediation, Risk Management, Compliance Management
In addition, McAfee continues to innovate with solutions to protect emerging platforms such as mobile security, virtualization, and social networking. McAfee’s broad offering caters to enterprises, SMB and consumers with targeted offerings designed from the ground-up to serve the specific segment. Underlying all of our products is world’s largest security research team, McAfee Avert, comprised of 200+ researchers in 17 countries.
Positions Overview:
Protecting confidential data is one of the top priorities for CIO and CSO’s. McAfee offers industry’s most complete Data Protection solution. As Competitive Product Marketing Manager, you will be responsible for researching competitive information and producing competitive marketing materials to help field sales compete effectively against other security companies in the data security area. You will be working in a lab environment to conduct hands-on evaluations of McAfee and competitive products.
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DESCRIPTION OF FUNCTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
· Conduct competitive research. Master market dynamics and be an expert on companies and products in a market
· Author competitive documents that will be used by sales, engineering, product management and Executive teams. For example: competitive analysis, whitepapers, presentations, and news flashes.
· Provide suggestions to improve McAfee products
· Implement and evaluate various McAfee and competitive products in a lab environment.
· Perform product installation and general lab maintenance.
· You will be responsible for defining hardware & maintenance needs, configuration specs, and upgrades requirements.
· You will be an integral part of the marketing team, providing input and helping with launch of new products.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
· 2+ years hands on experience with encryption or Data Loss Prevention technologies.
· Knowledge of encryption and hashing algorithms or Data Loss Prevention technologies and how they are implemented in typical enterprise customer environments.
· Experience in security, cryptography, and/or data storage technologies is preferred
· Knowledge of authentication credentials deployment and management (RSA tokens, smart cards, biometrics, etc.) is preferred.
· Knowledge of data security market and the major players is a big plus
· Prior sales or product marketing experience is a plus
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION:
· Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks in a dynamic environment.
· Strong written and verbal communication skills
· Strong technical knowledge and ability to install, maintain and test data security products.
· 4 years of college, relevant technical certification(s) or experience is required
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