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Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint’s all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you’re in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we’re missing is you!
Forcepoint is seeking a highly experienced Senior Platform Product Manager to lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of our global cloud services platform. This role will focus on cloud service availability, scalability, regional expansion, and new and emerging privacy and compliance requirements across our product portfolio.
As a senior individual contributor, you will own critical platform capabilities that enable multiple Forcepoint products and customers worldwide. You will operate at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, security, compliance, and business strategy, influencing executive decisions and driving long-term platform investments.
Define and own the long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for Forcepoint’s cloud services platform, with a focus on availability, resilience, scalability, and regional expansion
Translate business growth, customer requirements, and regulatory demands into platform-level product strategy and prioritized initiatives
Establish clear success metrics (availability SLAs, latency targets, regional coverage, compliance readiness
Lead platform initiatives to improve global service availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and operational resilience
Drive cloud expansion strategy, including new regions, data centers, and sovereign or regulated environments
Partner with Engineering and Operations to ensure architectural decisions support uptime, performance, and scale
Own platform requirements related to privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, data residency, sector-specific regulations, emerging regional mandates)
Anticipate and evaluate new and evolving compliance requirements, translating them into scalable platform capabilities rather than one-off solutions
Partner with Legal, Privacy, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure platform designs meet regulatory and contractual obligations
Serve as a senior product leader and trusted advisor to Engineering, Operations, Security, and executive leadership
Influence architectural and investment decisions without direct authority
Communicate platform strategy, roadmap, and trade-offs to executive leadership and key stakeholders
Lead platform roadmap reviews, risk discussions, and executive briefings
Support customer, partner, and field-facing conversations related to availability, expansion, and compliance posture
8+ years of product management experience, with significant focus on platform, cloud, or infrastructure products
Solid understanding and experience in product management processes. Know how to create MRDs/PRDs, perform competitive analysis, feature/function prioritization and assessment, and go to market plans.
Business focus with strong technical background and well-developed analytical skills
Proven experience owning highly available, distributed cloud services at global scale
Strong understanding of cloud architectures, availability patterns, and operational excellence (SLAs, SLOs, DR, resiliency)
Deep familiarity with privacy, data protection, and compliance frameworks and how they impact cloud platform design
Excellent strategic thinking, prioritization, and decision-making skills in complex, regulated environments
Exceptional communication skills, including executive-level presentations and customer-facing discussions
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations
Experience with SSE, SASE, DLP, or CASB platforms
Experience with sovereign cloud, data localization, or regulated industry deployments
Familiarity with global cloud providers and hybrid / multi-cloud environments
Don’t meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don’t meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace – so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you’re excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.
The policy of Forcepoint is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.
Forcepoint is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to recruiting@forcepoint.com.
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