Sr. Product Owner

What We Do

Managing cyber risk, together.

Forescout delivers automated cybersecurity across the digital terrain. We empower our customers to achieve continuous alignment of their security frameworks with their digital realities, across all asset types – IT, IoT, OT, and IoMT. It is a non-stop journey, managing cyber risk through automation and data-powered insights.

What You Will Do

We are seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner to join our NetSec Engineering team. This role is crucial in shaping our on premise-based solutions and effectively communicating key content to a variety of stakeholders. Based in our Plano, Texas location, you will collaborate with our agile teams to direct the feature and product requirements.

• User Stories & Backlog Management: Craft detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and backlog items, ensuring alignment with business goals. Collaborate closely with multi-disciplinary teams for refinement and approval of backlog items.
• Documentation & Product Artifacts: Develop essential product development artifacts including use cases, glossaries, process flows, and entity relationship diagrams.
• Agile Collaboration: Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and liaise with multiple Scrum teams. Effectively utilize Atlassian tools, especially JIRA and Confluence, for requirement management, planning, and documentation.
• Content Presentation: Present product content and articulate technical intricacies to downstream teams including engineering and first-level support, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinate with development, UX, QA, technical writing, and global teams to achieve clear, systematic outcomes. Foster strong relationships with backend-specific teams including database administrators and DevOps.
• Security & Compliance: Ensure products comply with cloud security protocols such as FedRAMP and SOC2, while maintaining a major focus on backend security best practices.
• Global Team Coordination: Facilitate effective communication among teams in Dallas, Eindhoven, India, and Canada, promoting collaboration across time zones and cultures to achieve project goals.
• Performance & Scalability: Work with engineering teams to identify and prioritize backend performance improvements and scalability considerations. Balance feature development with technical debt reduction and system enhancements. 

What You Bring To Forescout

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role with a focus on security or network product offerings.
• Proficiency with Atlassian tools, particularly JIRA and Confluence.
• Excellent understanding of backend architectures, APIs, databases, networking, cybersecurity, and/or 3rd party security products.
• Excellent communication skills and presentation skills with the ability to engage diverse audiences including executive level presentations.
• Excellent organizational focus and systematic approach to tasks.

Preferred Skills

• Professional certification in Product Ownership or Business Analysis.
• Experience with project tracking and familiarity with GitHub for development.
• Previous experience in Cisco, Aruba, network security, and networking.
• Experience working in the cybersecurity industry.
• Familiarity with backend monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure product reliability and performance.

What Forescout Offers You

• Competitive compensation and benefits - we cover 88% of employee and dependents' benefits premiums (US only), 401k match, generous PTO policy, and much more.
• Collaborative and innovative environment – make an impact on worldwide security while working on the hottest technology.
• Leadership that supports and encourages professional growth and development.
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• Learn more at:  www.forescout.com

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