Product Manager

About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
 
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
 
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

What you will do: Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for capabilities within Sophos Firewall and Multi-Firewall Management in Sophos Central, including centralized management of firewall policies, templates, configuration, and firmware across large and distributed deployments. This includes discovery and research through definition, delivery, launch, and iteration. Define and maintain a clear product roadmap grounded in evolving security needs, competitive dynamics, and business objectives. Develop expertise in next-generation firewall and network security use cases, with particular focus on central management at scale (including MSP and multi-tenant scenarios), SD-WAN, VPN, and integration with Sophos Central, XDR/MDR, and ZTNA — understanding how businesses deploy these capabilities to secure branch and campus networks, reduce attack surfaces, and simplify operations. Conduct customer discovery through interviews, data analysis, and close collaboration with global and regional sales teams, partners, and MSPs to uncover high-value network security and management problems worth solving. Translate complex security and networking requirements into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria that enable engineering teams to deliver with confidence. Partner with engineering to guide development, remove blockers, and ensure quality outcomes Stay current on the competitive landscape (e.g., Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Cisco, WatchGuard) to inform positioning and roadmap decisions. Drive go-to-market planning in collaboration with sales, marketing, and customer success, including enablement on use cases and differentiators. Define and track key product metrics, such as Sophos Central firewall onboarding and adoption, managed-firewall attach rate, and operational efficiency, using data to inform decisions and communicate results to stakeholders. Present product strategy, progress, and results to the product leadership team and Senior Management Team Report to the VP of Product Management

What you will bring: At least 5+ years of strong experience in product management having domain knowledge of cybersecurity, network security, or a related B2B SaaS environment Strong understanding of the network security market, including next-generation firewall capabilities such as IPS, application control, web and TLS inspection, VPN, SD-WAN, and zero-trust network access Familiarity with centralized firewall management platforms and how enterprises and MSPs manage policy, configuration, and visibility across many firewalls and sites from the cloud Understanding of cl