Senior Product Manager

About This Role

• vDefend Firewall is a critical pillar of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) security story, specifically focusing on micro-segmentation and zero trust to secure private cloud.
• As a Senior vDefend Firewall Product Manager is responsible for the strategic direction, feature prioritization, and market success of the vDefend security suite.
• As a Senior Product Manager, you own the lifecycle of vDefend Firewall capabilities, from ideation and competitive analysis to launch and customer adoption.
• You will act as the bridge between engineering, sales, and enterprise customers to ensure the (distributed & gateway) firewall remains the industry standard for east-west traffic security.
• Core Responsibilities Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define and maintain a 12–18 month roadmap for vDefend Firewall.
• Identify market shifts toward Zero Trust, Centralized Policy Management & Security-as-Code to ensure vDefend maintains market leadership.
• Feature Definition: Author detailed PRDs (Product Requirement Documents) for key features.
• Go-to-Market (GTM) Leadership: Collaborate with Marketing to develop messaging, technical white papers, and sales enablement tools.
• Customer Advocacy: Lead "Design Partner" programs with enterprise customers to gather feedback on beta features, specifically around existing deployments and core new firewall features to be added.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with the VCF teams to ensure seamless integration of vDefend Firewall story and logging across the VCF stack.
• Pricing & Packaging: Work with business operations to refine SKU structures and ROI modeling for vDefend add-on.
• Qualifications & Skills Experience/Education: BS in Engineering/Computer Science and 8 years in Product Management, with a focus on Network Security or Data Center Infrastructure or a Masters in Engineering/Computer Science and 8 years in Product Management, with a focus on Network Security or Data Center Infrastructure Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of L2–L7 stateful firewalls, micro-segmentation, and zero trust technology Technical Depth: Ability to discuss details of firewall data plane and API-first architectures and automation (Terraform/Ansible) with engineering teams.
• Leadership: High-level influence skills (P4 level requires the ability to lead without direct authority across global teams).
• As a Senior Product Manager, you are expected to operate with high autonomy: Think Horizontally: How does the firewall impact the private cloud operations and deployment along with VCF? Scale the Business: You are measured not just on "shipping code," but on the adoption rate of the vDefend product line.
• Additional Job Description: Compensation and Benefits The annual base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $192,000 This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
• Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401(K) participation including company matching, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), company paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time.
• The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.
• We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
• If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.