Currently, our team has two openings for Product Managers for our cloud security products. You can find the formal job listings here and here and we sincerely hope we are able to read your application soon. But I wanted to write this post to not only properly set expectations of what the team expected from their new colleagues but also to give you the top 3 reasons you should want to come join the product management team at Armor.
First, a big expectation for these individuals that the team wanted me to communicate was around the nature of the role and who we were looking for to fill it. As you can see by the job title in the listing, we are looking for a PRODUCT MANAGER. So all you rockstars, ninjas, gurus, and superheroes need not apply. However, we certainly hope we can be friends because those are all cool jobs that we want to be when we grow up. But our team is looking for people that live and breath dreaming up, designing, building, and delivering beautiful, simple, and value-creating products to market. We want you to be someone who knows how to go deep into a market, understand its intricacies, and gain empathy for the buyers and users in that market so you can craft product that addresses the problems of those buyers and achieve and scale in areas of product-market fit. We want you to work collaboratively with the rest of the product delivery organization, feeding stories and product design to development teams and working with product marketing, sales, and operations during the PLC to bring products to market. And ultimately, we want you to be knowledgeable in your product areas of cloud, security, SaaS, etc. The team has told me they will not compromise on wanting to work with true product manager instead of rockstars; they're just a little too loud and messy!
Now we wanted to lay out 3 reasons why you should come join the product management team at Armor.
1) We do it for the Culture -
"I do it for culture
Bigger than Oprah, Mayweather 50-0, culture
Higher we go, beg and plead for the culture (Yeah)" - Migos
There are a lot of things we could write about to convince you the culture is awesome. It could be the obvious awards such as Dallas Morning News naming Armor a Top 100 place to work in Dallas this year. Or we could talk about the work from home stipend that Armor gave its employees at the beginning of the pandemic to make working at home more comfortable. We could also mention the fact that Armor sent every employee a pie for Thanksgiving as a small token of its appreciation. Or we could tout on all the amazing HR perks, benefits, and amazing core values of the company. But culture for us is none of those things. Culture is that bond that forms when you not only get to work with your friends doing stuff you love but that you means you can rely on each other through the thick and thin. Because building companies is HARD. Work is not always enjoyable or easy nor should we expect it to be. But there is a connection that forms from being in the trenches with each other that is the basis of those ever important parts of a team: trust, communication, and accountability. And we have that connection amongst our team at Armor. We know that each of our members of our team is an individual who is a specialist in their field, cares deeply about doing the right thing, and will constantly challenge us to be our best selves, while simultaneously helping us learn and grow by supporting along the way.
2) We have a passion for the BEST industry on the planet - cybersecurity!
I embark on life, my path is all math
I understand the codes these hackers can’t crack
I understand that folks expect me to fold
Community control to violate parole
I won't fail, but a lot of men will
I’m iconic in the field like Solomon's Seal - Rick Ross
Cloud security is THE field to be in. Once again there are many reasons why cloud security is a field anyone would want to grow their career in. "Cloud Security Market was valued at USD 6.76 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach USD 37.69 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 25.86% from 2020 to 2027." So there is a lot of money to be made and the industry has the highest growth rate of any job area over the last 10 years at 37%. You will NEVER stop learning as you are constantly trying to keep pace with the new innovations coming out to keep pace with digital transformation companies are undergoing. Armor supports its employees pursuits of certifications that further their career and help them stay sharp in their fields and many of our product managers have taken advantage of that fact to pursue cloud security or product management specializations and certifications. Each member of the team has a passion for the field and its real world impacts of keeping businesses and people's data safe from theft.
Beyond continued learning and growth in the field, the vastness of the field presents the product opportunity of the decade. And that opportunity is to build a platform that simplifies security and compliance for anyone anywhere. It is this opportunity to democratize cybersecurity for companies that drives each of us to passionately keep learning and growing in our careers and the field of cybersecurity. We will talk more about the platform opportunity in the next section!
3) We are building the best security platform on the planet!
"We the BEST! Another One." - DJ Khaled
We want you to come work on Armor Anywhere. There are a number of reasons why we think it's the best security platform on the planet but this post is already getting long and we want to leave some intrigue for when you actually come work with us. First, we're constantly releasing innovative features in the market that help customer deal with the changing digital landscape they need to protect. For example, as more and more companies have accelerated their usage of the cloud due to COVID-19, there is an increasing risk to protect those clouds from misconfiguration so sensitive data is not exposed. We recently launched a feature of our platform that helps customers address that risk and adapt their security posture to the unique services of the cloud. If you want to build innovative solutions that address real customer problems then come work on our platform.
Beyond the innovative features we are bringing to market, we are enabling a whole partner ecosystem of service providers, technology companies, and distributors build security and compliance into their portfolios. Being a platform means supporting an ecosystem and at the heart of Armor is our channel ecosystem. Not only are we giving MSPs and other partners the ability to add security to their portfolio but we are also building a platform the puts our partners first when it comes to features they need to run their business.
Lastly, we are building the best platform on the planet because of our dedication to the mission, which is the outcomes of security and compliance for our customers. Security is not a technology problem but an operations problem that can be solved through the building of a technology platform. The industry is full of many smart individuals who have built amazing technology to solve a myriad of point problems for companies. However, those technologies often sit on the shelf, the insights from those technologies get missed due to alert fatigue, or you cannot correlate across all these great technologies to get the single set of insights you need to run your business. Armor is building a platform that helps enterprise companies and platforms simplify how they do security and compliance by solving these operational challenges.
We hope that these three reasons have convinced you to come join the product management team at Armor! If product management isn't your cup of tea but you nobody somebody who loves it, please pass this post along and/or share it on social media with your networks. We look forward to adding you to the list of Armor Heroes soon!
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