Senior Product Manager

Job Overview 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 Product Manager, you own the lifecycle of vDefend Firewall capabilities from ideation and competitive analysis to launch and customer adoption, acting as the bridge between engineering, sales, and enterprise customers to ensure the 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, identifying market shifts toward Zero Trust, Centralized Policy Management and Security-as-Code to keep the product leading the market. Feature Definition: Author detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) 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, especially 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 and logging across the VCF stack. Pricing & Packaging: Work with business operations to refine SKU structures and ROI modeling for the vDefend add‑on. Qualifications & Skills Experience/Education: BS in Engineering or Computer Science and 8 years in Product Management focused on Network Security or Data Center Infrastructure, or a Master’s degree with the same experience. Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of L2-L7 stateful firewalls, micro‑segmentation and zero trust technology. Technical Depth: Ability to discuss firewall data plane, API‑first architectures and automation (Terraform/Ansible) with engineering teams. Leadership: High‑level influence skills; able to lead without direct authority across global teams. Additional Expectations: Operate with high autonomy, think horizontally about how the firewall impacts private cloud operations and deployment with VCF, and scale the business—measured on adoption rate, not just 'shipping code'. Compensation and Benefits Annual base salary range: $141,300 – $226,000. Discretionary annual bonus in accordance with the relevant plan. Equity award as per the equity plan documents. Medical, dental and vision plans. 401(k) participation with company matching. Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP). Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Paid holidays, paid sick leave and vacation time. Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence in compliance with applicable laws. Equal Opportunity Broadcom is an equal‑opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Broadcom Inc.