Staff Product Marketing Manager - DLP

Sunnyvale, CA (Hybrid)

$137K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the DLP messaging and GTM for Proofpoint across endpoint, email, and cloud, translating security concepts into customer friendly positioning while coordinating launches, enablement, and field readiness.

  • Messaging and GTM ownership for DLP across data protection, compliance, and secure productivity audiences.
  • Enablement and content to arm sales, partners, and events with clear discovery questions, battlecards, and talk tracks.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic positioning and messaging for Proofpoint DLP across endpoint, email, and cloud, anchored in customer needs around data protection, compliance, and secure productivity.
  • Own GTM strategy and launch planning for new DLP capabilities, partnering with product, sales, channel, and demand teams to drive awareness, pipeline, and adoption.
  • Create high-impact content across solution briefs, web pages, presentations, webinars, demo scripts, blogs, and customer-facing materials.
  • Build sales and partner enablement, including playbooks, battlecards, objection handling, discovery questions, competitive guidance, and talk tracks.
  • Track market, buyer, and competitive trends across DLP, insider risk, cloud data security, and adjacent data protection categories.
  • Serve as a DLP subject matter expert in sales trainings, customer briefings, field events, analyst conversations, webinars, and executive presentations.
  • Partner with product and field teams to translate customer insights, use cases, and adoption patterns into sharper messaging, stronger launches, and more effective GTM.

Requirements

  • 12 + years in product marketing for cybersecurity, data security, DLP, insider risk, email security, endpoint security, cloud security, or related enterprise software.
  • Strong understanding of DLP use cases across endpoint, email, cloud, SaaS applications, data classification, policy management, compliance, and incident response.
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical capabilities into clear, customer-centric messaging for security, risk, compliance, IT, and executive audiences.
  • Experience leading GTM strategy, launches, sales enablement, and campaign planning for enterprise security solutions.
  • Strong market and competitive analysis skills, with the ability to turn insights into positioning, sales guidance, and product feedback.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills across executive briefings, analyst conversations, webinars, customer meetings, and industry events.
  • Collaborative, analytical, and execution-focused, with the ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive measurable business impact.
  • A bachelor’s degree is required; a technical concentration or MBA is a plus.

Preferred

  • Technical concentration or MBA is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Career success on your terms
  • Flexible work environment
  • Annual wellness and community outreach days
  • Always on recognition for your contributions
  • Global collaboration and networking opportunities
  • two paid Wellbeing Days and two paid Volunteer Days per year, plus a three-week Work from Anywhere option
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Proofpoint

We secure how people, data and AI agents connect across email, cloud and collaboration tools.

Founded in 2002
Sunnyvale, California, USA
5K employees (196 in marketing)