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OEM Product Manager (SOMA / south beach)


Date: 2009-11-10, 3:39PM PST
Reply to: jobs@cloudmark.com [Errors when replying to ads?]


Cloudmark provides comprehensive messaging security solutions that protect subscribers and messaging infrastructure from spam, phishing, viruses and other harmful content. Founded by pioneers in messaging anti-abuse, Cloudmark's solutions were architected from the ground up to stop current and emerging threat vectors with high efficiency and scalability.

As a result of its unrivaled accuracy and performance, Cloudmark has emerged as the most widely-deployed messaging security solution in the world today. Cloudmark's customers include over 100 of the world's largest service providers, including the majority of tier-1 operators in North America, Japan and Europe.

Cloudmark is looking for a talented Product Manager with experience in messaging security and OEM partner relations. This position requires a mix of external PM skills, including interfacing with sales, industry, and OEM partners to collect and prioritize product feedback, as well as internal PM skills to help provide product direction to engineering and work with marketing to inform customers and prospects of Cloudmark’s product portfolio.

This role requires the following capabilities and responsibilities:
• Manage a highly technical product line from conception through development, release, and maintenance cycles
• Drive product direction consensus between multiple internal and external parties
• Maintain ongoing messaging security competitive analysis documentation
• Produce detailed MRD/PRD documents
• Manage a portfolio of OEM partners who integrate Cloudmark SDK’s into their own products or services
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills

This role requires knowledge of the following:
• Messaging anti-abuse technology and mitigation methodologies
• High volume SMTP messaging
• ISP and enterprise messaging server platforms
• Databases, LDAP, and webmail technologies
• Scripting and coding

Key Position Responsibilities/Objectives
• High-touch interaction with OEM partners, including providing product roadmap overviews, collecting product feedback, assisting with marketing efforts, and providing product integration direction.
• Work with two internal engineering teams to develop, package, and maintain software and associated service.
• Work with product management team, research team, marketing, support, and sales to receive input on platform feature and functions.
• Develop and maintain internal documentation on products including, internal product FAQ’s, sales decks, competitive kill sheets, and marketing material.
• Work with sales team and partners to customers and prospects, provide roadmap overviews, integration and deployment guidance.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• User-level UNIX skills, especially Red Hat Linux
• 5+ years PM experience, history with releasing SaaS and/or security offerings
• 2+ years experience with software development and test processes
• Familiarity with process implementation and improvement
• Knowledge/experience in C programming is a plus
• 2+ years experience with messaging protocols and data repositories, such as SMTP, LMTP, LDAP, MySQL, and Oracle.

Education
• MBA with technical business management focus preferred
• University degree in computer science or engineering or equivalent experience a plus

This position is located in SOMA in San Francisco

Send your resume to jobs@cloudmark.com

Please no phone calls

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