About Neustar Security Services
At Neustar Security Services (NSS), you have the power to be your authentic self, to be curious, to run with your idea, and to celebrate a good day. Our solutions secure your digital presence against risks and downtime while leaving you open for opportunities, ensuring your customers enjoy consistent, uninterrupted, quality interactions. We’re growing fast and we're looking for smart, motivated people to join our team.
Summary of Position
NSS is seeking a Director, DNS to join the team that is responsible for strategy, definition, delivery and adoption of our market leading UltraDNS product suite. This is an individual contributor position that is expected to have a strong influence cross-organizationally leading the product team. The successful candidate will own a portion of our DNS portfolio end to end leading a close collaboration with partners in engineering, sales, marketing, and within the PM organization. This position will require the ability to influence strategy on the portfolio, gain consensus on direction, and get others to buy in and execute against our objectives. This is an exciting time to join the DNS Product Management team as we rapidly accelerate and expand our offering across all facets of the DNS ecosystem.
NSS suite of DNS services include UltraDNS Authoritative, UltraDNS TLD, UltraDNS Firewall, and UltraDNS Public. The management of some of these would fall under the responsibility of the successful candidate. UltraDNS has a long history of pioneering innovations and several industry firsts, including being: The first managed DNS provider in the world; The first DNS service to leverage proprietary code, which unlike BIND-based services, is not open-sourced; The first DNS service protected by a built-in DDoS mitigation service - now known as NSS UltraDDoS Protect; The first DNS service to offer an entirely segregated and securely sealed DNS environment using the award-winning, DNS Shield
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for developing and evangelizing the vision, strategies, and tactics as well as the successful launch and expansion of DNS products into new and existing markets.
Required to define and manage the suite of DNS products and solutions within NSS to drive increased market share in a crowded market.
Responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with partners and internal cross-functional stakeholders.
You will lead customer discovery activities, requirements definition, pricing, feature prioritization, design, development, and implementation activities associated with the DNS services under your management.
Qualifications
5-10 years of product management experience in Internet networking and/or security solutions
Strong understanding of DNS
Strong understanding of network and security architectures
Prior experience in building and managing products that deliver services at Internet scale
Prior experience in delivering a cloud-based solution
Ability to interact with customers and prospects to define market requirements, and translate these into product requirements
Required to drive the roadmap working closely with other product managers, engineering and a cross-functional team including product marketing, sales, partners, support, etc.
Capable of building and defending business plans to C-Suite executives
Capable of communicating the value of NSS’ products to C-Suite executives
Demonstrate technical depth and business savvy capable of interfacing with all levels and disciplines within an organization, from engineers to executive leadership
Be the product voice within an agile product-development environment by delivering prioritized user stories and product requirements with corresponding justification
Experience collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data from disparate sources in order to drive conclusions and recommendations
Experience with Pragmatic Marketing framework a plus
Four-year college degree required in Business, Computer Science or Engineering, MBA a plus
Travel: Some travel required (20-25% of time)
Additional Information - Is this you?
Takes ownership
Demonstrates initiative
Drives for continual improvement
Curious - investigates new technologies
Doesn't accept the status quo
Total Rewards
At Neustar Security Services, we are committed to the growth and development of our employees whose individual skills, curiosity, and passion for their work, contribute to the overall success of our business. Our core values (Accountability, Collaboration, Transparency, Resilience, and Respect) are the driving force of our culture across our locations around the globe. We offer our employees a comprehensive benefits package including perks such as tuition reimbursement, awesome company discounts, back-up day care, community service events, swag and much more! We are all learning and creating together; and having some major fun along the way. JOIN US! We can’t wait to meet you!
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