Product Manager, Firewall

Meters Firewall product has grown faster than the systems around it. Major vendors still define the enterprise firewall marketyour job is to make Meter the next name on that your first year youll bring structure to a fast-growing product surface and put Meter in serious contention against the majors.

Youll partner directly with Sunil Varanasi Meters CTO and cofounder and own the Firewall product surface end-to-end: organizing what weve already built prioritizing whats next and giving Sales Engineering Customer Operations and GTM the clarity they need to sell and support with confidence. Youll start with our most complex systemsthe policy engine the IPS engine and our BGP implementationthen move fast based on what customers need next.

Firewall is one piece of Meters vertically integrated stackrouting SD-WAN security wireless switching mobile and powerwhich is exactly what lets a small team ship high-complexity features fast. Every discussion you have and every decision you make should serve one goal: better outcomes for customers.

In your first 612 months you will:

• Document every existing Firewall feature and order it by complexity giving Sales Engineering and GTM a reliable resource to sell from.

• Build a clear prioritized Firewall roadmap for the next six months signed off with Sunil by the end of Q1.

• Become Marketing and Sales Engineerings go-to PM contact with a repeatable process for turning customer feature requests into roadmap decisions.

• Scope prioritize and move at least one major Firewall capability into active development within six months sourced directly from customer and SE input.

• Working with firewall firmware engineers to design featurespolicy engine ACLs BGP DNS securityand weigh tradeoffs on protocol behavior rule evaluation order and performance.

• Organizing and prioritizing requests from the support team and triaging bugs surfaced by Quality Engineering (QE).

• Joining customer QBRs to hear firsthand how they use Meters Firewall and where it falls short.

• Planning the Firewall roadmap with Sunil every week.

• Learning how the backend (APIs) frontend (Dashboard) and models teams build the layers your product depends on.

• Working with QE to make sure every release is stable and easy to deploy

In year two you could own product strategy across Meters full security surfaceFirewall IPS and whatever comes nextas the person who defines how Meter competes. The prioritization system roadmap process and customer feedback loop you build in year one could become the model other product teams at Meter run on.

• Youve built products in enterprise security or networking and you understand how IT administrators and network engineers manage firewall policy across thousands of devices in live environments.

• More than domain knowledge what makes you exceptional is how you work with people: you communicate clearly across technical and nontechnical audiences and you bring teams into alignment without needing formal authority.

• Youve shipped incrementally learned from imperfect first versions and kept a team pointed in the same direction even when the problem got messier than expected.

• You dont need a fully defined playbook to get startedyou see a customers need and build for it.

• The estimated base salary for this role is between $205000 $275000.

• Additionally this role is eligible to participate in Meters equity plan.

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