Head of HR, Product

About Us: Proofpoint is a global leader in human- and agent-centric cybersecurity. We protect how people, data, and AI agents connect across email, cloud, and collaboration tools. Over 80 of the Fortune 100, 10,000 large enterprises, and millions of smaller organizations trust Proofpoint to stop threats, prevent data loss, and build resilience across their people and AI workflows. Our mission is simple: safeguard the digital world and empower people to work securely and confidently. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
How We Work At Proofpoint you’ll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity guided by our BRAVE core values: Staff Product Manager Proofpoint is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead product strategy and execution for a critical area of our enterprise security platform. This is a senior individual contributor role for an experienced product leader who can tackle complex customer and business problems, shape product direction, and drive alignment and execution across multiple teams. The ideal candidate combines deep enterprise product management expertise with strong business acumen, technical credibility, and exceptional product judgment. You have a track record of identifying meaningful customer problems, developing compelling product strategies, influencing senior stakeholders, and delivering products that create measurable customer and business value.
What You’ll Do Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a complex and strategically important product area aligned with broader company and platform objectives.
Own ambiguous, high-impact product problems that span multiple capabilities, teams, or areas of the customer experience.
Develop a deep understanding of customers, their workflows, and the problems they need to solve, serving as a strong voice of the customer throughout the product development process.
Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Operations around product priorities, dependencies, and desired outcomes.
Translate customer insights, market trends, competitive dynamics, technical opportunities, and business priorities into actionable product strategies and investment recommendations.
Engage directly with customers and prospects to uncover unmet needs, validate product direction, and develop a strong understanding of evolving enterprise security challenges.
Define and monitor product success metrics, using customer feedback, product analytics, and business performance to guide prioritization and continuous improvement.
Partner with go-to-market teams on positioning, launches, field enablement, adoption, and commercialization strategies.
Represent the product in strategic customer conversations, executive briefings, analyst discussions, and industry engagements as appropriate.
Identify opportunities to improve platform capabilities, technology partnerships, and ecosystem integrations that accelerate customer value.
Serve as a product thought leader and mentor across the Product organization, helping other Product Managers strengthen product strategy, discovery, decision-making, and execution.
What You Bring Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
8+ years of product management experience, including significant experience leading complex enterprise software products from strategy through execution.
Proven experience defining and executing product strategy for complex enterprise software or cybersecurity products.
Demonstrated success owning significant products or product areas from customer discovery and strategy through development, launch, adoption, and optimization.
Exceptional product judgment and the ability to identify the highest-value customer problems and translate them into differentiated product experiences.
Deep understanding of enterprise customer needs, buying processes, administrative workflows, and the requirements of building products for large organizations.
Strong technical aptitude and the ability to partner effectively with Engineering on architecture, platform capabilities, technical investments, and tradeoffs.
Strong strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to balance customer value, technical feasibility, competitive differentiation, and business outcomes.
Strong analytical skills and experience using customer feedback, market research, competitive insights, and product data to make informed decisions.
Experience engaging directly with enterprise customers, prospects, partners, and other external stakeholders.
Flexible work environment
Annual wellness and community outreach days
Global collaboration and networking opportunities
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. This role may be eligible for variable compensation and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package, including flexible time off, a comprehensive well-being program with two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option.
Proofpoint has been honored with six Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Career Growth, Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We're driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.
We value those with a visionary mindset who anticipate what’s next and push cybersecurity forward, and we celebrate exceptional execution that ensures we continue to defend data and protect people.
Proofpoint is an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.
Find your network, your allies, and your biggest fans. That's why we offer social circles, sponsored networks, and connection points across teams and time zones—to help you find your people, build your community, and thrive together.
This isn’t just a job—it’s a mission to protect people and defend data in a world that never slows down. We're building the future of human-centric cybersecurity, and that future belongs to all of us. Be empowered to reach your full potential through meaningful challenges and personalized support—designed around you and your goals. Whether you’re growing as a leader or leveling up from great to exceptional as an individual contributor, we’re here to help you get there.

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