Keywords:
Projects, Cyber Security
Type:
Permanent employment
Location:
Delft
Education:
Associate degree (EQF 5), Bachelor (EQF 6), Master (EQF 7), MBO-4/HAVO/VWO (EQF 4)
Published:
17/10/2016
Status:
Open
Apply before:
01/05/2017
Hours p/wk:
40

Description:

Are you passionate about Agile and Lean Startup product development? Do you want to be part of a highly skilled team and have major international technology companies as your customers? Apply for this role!

 

Riscure is a world renowned security lab, specialized in building advanced security test tools and performing evaluations of security sensitive consumer devices, such as mobile phones, smart cards, embedded chipsets and set-top boxes. We have 80 employees with mixed technical and academic backgrounds working from offices in Delft, The Netherlands and San Francisco, USA.

 

The Product Manager is in charge of Riscure's product roadmap. Our product portfolio consists of security test equipment that we provide to technology manufacturers, test laboratories and governments agencies across the world.

In this role you are responsible for product market fit of new products and product upgrades, for the pricing strategy and for providing our sales team and resellers with excellent promotion material. Riscure's main portfolio of products is for side channel testing of chip technology which is a niche market in the security field. Over the past 10 years Riscure has become worldwide market leader on these test tools. The hardware and software of our products are largely developed in-house. For some components we also work together with suppliers, for instance for high-end microscope equipment. Because of new attack techniques that continue to become relevant we never run out of ideas on what to implement next; it is your job to prioritize on the most valuable topics.

 

In the past 7 months Riscure adjusted its product strategy to the sticky growth model in Lean Startup supported by Agile development. We have brought our activities in line with this strategy and in the role of Product Manager you are the main driver for the continuation of this successful journey. You report to the CCO (Chief Commercial Officer) of Riscure. Our development team consists of highly skilled individuals with the following backgrounds: software engineering, electrical engineering, analogue and digital hardware, information security and cryptography. In this role you also act as product owner and you constantly interact with all stakeholders inside and outside the company in order to understand user experience, prioritize what to work on and to promote the products to others at Riscure. Besides a small core development team we have a large pool of security analysts at Riscure that also use the test tools and that perform development activities on them which you can use to commercialize to customers. One of your strategic goals is to streamline these two development processes to increase the overall benefits for Riscure and its customers.

 

Responsibilities

1. You are responsible for an excellent product / market fit for

  • Existing products: the behavior of users changes in positive way as a result of product development
  • New products (adoption rate by existing customer base, sales to new customers)

2. You are responsible for a good return on investment per product

  • Financial planning per product (new and existing)
  • Coordinating allocation of development resources
  • Availability of good product promotion and sales material (incl data sheet, web site content, sales slides, demos, white papers)

3. You are responsible for implementing the lean startup methodology in the Tools team (~15 people) and manage the Build - Measure - Learn cycle

 

4. You are responsible for customer support by our CXT team

 

Your tasks include prioritizing and shaping lean startup experiments, preparing product backlog for 2-weekly sprints of the development team, gathering input from sales and customer support team on user experience, coordinating and writing promotion material for products, monitoring that all activities in the team stay in line with the sticky growth strategy, reviewing and approving the outcome of development activities.

 

Skills and experience

  • Proven ability to coordinate a large stakeholder group ('spider in the web')
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and team skills
  • Experience working as a Product Owner on software products, and you are SCRUM Product Owner certified (CSPO)
  • Experience with Lean Startup methodology and preferably have applied it in practice
  • Established experience in product development of software products
  • Ability to operate at strategic and tactical level
  • Demonstrated to be a successful and inspirational team leader or manager

 

What we offer


Riscure offers an excellent package, including great company culture, challenging work in a variety of industries, good salary, profit sharing, training programs, a modern pension plan and self-development within a growing organization.

 

Sounds interesting?

For more information, contact our HR department at +31 (0)15 2514 090. Would you prefer to apply directly? Send your CV and application letter to hrm@riscure.com. Reference checking and a personal assessment may be part of the application procedure.