Broadcom

Senior Product Manager

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Promontory, UT, USA

In-Office

120K-192K Annually

Senior level

Software • Semiconductor • Manufacturing

The Role

Lead strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for vDefend Firewall within VMware Cloud Foundation. Author PRDs, run design partner programs, coordinate GTM and cross-functional integration, and drive adoption, pricing, and packaging for firewall and micro-segmentation capabilities.

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Job Description:

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.

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will 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.

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