Define and own the long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for Forcepoint’s cloud services platform, with a focus on availability, resilience, scalability, and regional expansion
Translate business growth, customer requirements, and regulatory demands into platform-level product strategy and prioritized initiatives
Lead platform initiatives to improve global service availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience
Drive cloud expansion strategy, including new regions, data centers, and sovereign or regulated environments
Partner with Engineering and Operations to ensure architectural decisions support uptime, performance, and scale
Own platform requirements related to privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, data residency, sector-specific regulations, emerging regional mandates)
Anticipate and evaluate new and evolving compliance requirements, translating them into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions
Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure platform designs meet regulatory and contractual obligations
Serve as a senior product leader and trusted advisor to Engineering, Operations, Security, and executive leadership
Influence architectural and investment decisions without direct authority
Communicate platform strategy, roadmap, and trade-offs to executive leadership and key stakeholders
Lead platform roadmap reviews, risk discussions, and executive briefings
Requirements
8+ years of product management experience, with significant focus on platform, cloud, or infrastructure products
Solid understanding and experience in product management processes. Know how to create MRDs/PRDs, perform competitive analysis, feature/function prioritization and assessment, and go to market plans.
Business focus with strong technical background and well-developed analytical skills
Proven teamwork and interpersonal skills
Proven experience owning highly available, distributed cloud services at global scale
Strong understanding of cloud architectures, availability patterns, and operational excellence (SLAs, SLOs, DR, resiliency)
Deep familiarity with privacy, data protection, and compliance frameworks and how they impact cloud platform design
Excellent strategic thinking, prioritization, and decision-making skills in complex, regulated environments
Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level presentations and customer-facing discussions
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations