Product Manager

Contract Product Manager (6 months)

Term: Initial 6 months (contract)

Reports to: Chief Product & Marketing Officer
Location: Remote-friendly within NZ/AU time zones

Role overview

Deliver product proofs and customer-facing assets that accelerate validation and go‑to‑market for new RedShield capabilities. The contractor bridges product management and product marketing: planning/prioritizing new offerings (or significant updates to existing ones), building demos, writing requirements and inclusions, and producing clear external copy.

Key responsibilities

1. Demo development
   • Build, maintain, and iterate on demos for new and emerging solution/service areas.
   • Create demo data, scenarios, and scripts that show clear value to security, platform, and procurement stakeholders.
2. Product planning and prioritisation
   • Contribute to quarterly prioritisation across the product portfolio; prepare option analyses and short business cases.
   • Maintain lightweight roadmaps and decision logs.
   • Run quick discovery (customer interviews, competitor scans) to inform priorities.
3. Requirements & documentation
   • Write inclusions documents for advanced patches and other solutions/services as needed.
   • Produce feature descriptions, acceptance criteria, and success measures for engineering.
   • Draft demo scripts and runbooks for SA team and Customer Success.
4. Product marketing support
   • Draft and maintain concise web copy, one‑pagers, and slide content for new features.
   • Translate technical capabilities (e.g., advanced patches) into buyer‑oriented benefits and outcomes.
   • Partner with Marketing on naming, messaging, and release notes.

1. RedShield advanced patches
   • Work with the tech team (ASD, cloud) to scope, package, and document advanced patches (use cases, risks, roll‑back plans).

Expected deliverables (examples)

• 3-5 interactive demos with scripts and reset instructions.
• Requirements documents for new service/solution areas (for Jira).
• Inclusions documents for each new capability (e.g., Site Scraping Advanced Patch - v1).
• Feature briefs (≤3 pages) with problem, approach, acceptance criteria, measures.
• Sales flyer 2-3 pages per new offering; sales presentation slide; objections handling doc; website copy blocks for launch pages.
• Demo environment checklist and monthly update log.

Skills & experience

• 5+ years in product management or technical product marketing within security, networking, or cloud/SaaS.
• Hands‑on demo building and operating.
• Strong technical writing: ability to create inclusions, feature briefs, and customer‑ready copy.
• Evidence of prioritising with data: customer interviews, simple cost/benefit, and decision logs.
• Strongly preferred: familiarity with application security, app‑layer security, and modern web architectures (APIs, microservices, CDNs).