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Job Description:

v Defend 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 Seniorv Defend Firewall Product Manager is responsible for the strategic direction, feature prioritization, and market success of the v Defend security suite.

As a Senior Product Manager, you own the lifecycle of v Defend 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 v Defend Firewall. Identify market shifts toward Zero Trust,Centralized Policy Management&Security-as-Code to ensure v Defend 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 v Defend Firewall story and logging across the VCF stack.

• Pricing & Packaging: Work with business operations to refine SKU structures and ROI modeling for v Defend 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 v Defend 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.If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.