Technical Marketing Engineer

About the role

Please note, this team is hiring across all levels and candidates are individually assessed and appropriately leveled based upon their skills and experience.

The Technical Marketing and Research team is a group of highly-skilled TMEs with broad and deep expertise in network and cloud security, and a knack for figuring out the competitive landscape and how best to position and differentiate our products and services from the competition. As a team, they contribute their technical knowledge to our product development, launch and go-to-market teams and strategies. 

What's in it for you

As a member of this team you will:

• Work closely with product management and development teams on product planning and competitive strategies, and use your technical expertise to influence the technical scope of features.
• Identify and anticipate product needs to develop competitive offerings and position and differentiate Netskope products and services.
• Develop technical thought leadership and collateral for the field to improve our ability to effectively compete with competitors.
• Assess the competitive landscape and Netskope product portfolio to ensure our performance, security efficacy and effectiveness is second to none.

What you will be doing

• Serving as a  subject matter expert in SASE network architectures, including CASB, enterprise data protection/DLP, SWG, ZTNA, NGFW, CSPM, SSPM, SD-WAN, Identity management, Zero Trust
• Driving technical use case-driven competitive positioning and awareness of the strengths and weaknesses in products and offerings
• Transforming deep-level product analysis into actionable and compelling collateral and functional comparison whitepapers, presentations and demos
• Serving as a subject matter expert in competitive perspective on deployments and management of SASE technologies 
• Developing and executing performance benchmark testing, compatibility testing, and threat & data protection efficacy testing. 
• Developing and presenting content and resources such as presentations, demos, reference materials, and other technical documentation
• Collaborating with engineering, product management, and marketing teams to build compelling, evidence-based competitive positioning content 
• Designing and maintaining research labs 

Required skills and experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to work independently
• Self-driven and attentive to detail and quality
• Broad and deep experience with cloud and network security, and the ability to get hands-on with any security product, from deployment to deep-level analysis
• The ability to quickly learn new technologies and stay current with the latest feature development trends 
• Proficiency in technology demonstration techniques
• Experience with both threat and data protection efficacy testing methodologies
• Experience with scripting and automation
• Technical understanding of cloud security competitive market trends
• The ability to influence product roadmap and positioning strategies 

Education

• BSCS or equivalent required, MSCS or equivalent strongly preferred

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