at Proofpoint in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!
We’re committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
The Role
As a Content Product Manager within Proofpoint, you are the owner of the product portfolio you manage and the person responsible for driving the success of your product through development, market positioning, and customer evangelization. In this role you will draw upon your deep cybersecurity knowledge to help guide and create compelling and accurate content. You must love to communicate, collaborate, and have a passion for making complex issues easy to understand. You’ll join a team of security awareness content creators and help support them by building out our people-centric security training framework. This role is primarily responsible for defining and enabling the creation of engaging and accurate security awareness and training offerings that differentiate Proofpoint in the market.
Key skills:
+ Self-driven and results-oriented, bringing security and threat landscape knowledge together with best practices in adult training and awareness.
+ Possess a strong data-driven mindset that will help to ensure that appropriate decisions are made when trade-offs are required.
+ Harnesses strong business acumen to ensure that content strategy matches with both current and future customer needs.
+ Great presentation skills and is comfortable presenting ideas and strategy to a variety of audiences.
+ Strong research skills with experience synthesizing findings and complex subjects into easy to understand communication points.
+ Proficiency in project management methodologies to effectively plan, execute, and track progress on product initiatives.
Your day-to-day
+ Focus on defining & executing the content roadmap for Proofpoint Security Awareness Training product
+ Work directly with key Proofpoint customers and internal stakeholders to develop, prioritize & refine content requirements
+ Represent the content roadmap both internally and with customers
+ You will keep a finger on the pulse of the threats, risk and compliance needs of enterprise security teams as they related to development topics and use that knowledge to help create training products such as learning modules, videos, and more
+ Evaluate market and competitors – working with marketing and field sales to refine content strategy
+ Provide clarity and implementation guidance of roadmap to the content platform team
+ Work with sales to understand and internalize customer feedback & objections to content
+ Work with customer support and psat, ensuring that the content roadmap is communicated, and their needs are addressed
+ Develop training on new content updates for both internal and external stakeholdersWhy ProofpointProtecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
\#LI-PH1
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges:
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area:
Base Pay Range: 116,690.00 – 183,370.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska:
Base Pay Range: 96,880.00 – 152,240.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above:
Base Pay Range: 87,220.00 – 137,060.00 USD
Proofpoint has been honored with five Best Places to Work Awards in 2024 by workplace culture leader Comparably, including Best Company Outlook, Best Global Culture, Best Engineering Teams, Best Sales Teams, and Best HR Teams.
To view additional awards, please visit www.proofpoint.com/us/news#awards
Proofpoint thrives on the invaluable contributions of our diverse workforce, which encompasses a kaleidoscope of lived experiences, thoughts, perspectives, and professional expertise. We attribute much of our success to our people, who are at the core of our organization and embody our people-centric ethos.
We hire the most innovative minds globally to safeguard our customers’ sensitive data and intellectual property. Our talented workforce develops and leverages our advanced technology, combining their expertise to provide comprehensive protection against threat actors and mitigate the risks posed by both malicious and negligent employees.
Cyberattacks have the potential to disrupt access to vital resources such as energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and financial services. At Proofpoint, our dedicated team works tirelessly to ensure world-class cyber resilience, protecting approximately 8,000 enterprise customers worldwide.
We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We work every day to ensure that our employees feel that they are in a community that celebrates their unique identity, cultivates their sense of belonging, and invests in their professional growth. We have 9 employee-led employee inclusion groups which help support both employees and our organization by providing opportunities to network, discuss career and cultural development and uplift the corporate culture to create a more inclusive workplace.
At Proofpoint, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from today’s advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:
+ Build and enhance our proven security platform
+ Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture
+ Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel
+ Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most. That’s why