Director, Product Management, ThinkShield

Lenovo; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an entrepreneurial Director of Product Management for the ThinkShield cybersecurity portfolio. You will drive the strategic vision, roadmap, and market execution, leading cross-functional teams to accelerate growth and deliver customer value.

You will translate business goals into rigorous product specifications, partner with Sales, Marketing and GTM teams, and shape governance for regional compliance and data privacy matters across markets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of shipping enterprise-grade products and solutions that landed in the market.
• Strong engineering mindset with the ability to translate requirements into actionable deliverables.
• Strong business acumen with experience linking milestones to financial outcomes and driving revenue impact.
• Experience partnering with Sales and Marketing to enable field teams and align roadmaps with market demand.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and present data-driven insights to executives.

Responsibilities

• Drive Portfolio Growth: Lead product/portfolio strategy to capture expansion across SMBs and enterprises. AI is a given.
• Portfolio Optimization Customer Success: Identify gaps within the portfolio hindering market adoption and architect strategies to resolve them.
• System-Level Specifications: Translate high-level goals into rigorous specification definitions bridging product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Go-To-Market (GTM) Partnership: Collaborate with GTM, Marketing to develop high-conversion sales plays, pricing strategies, and launch plans.
• Competitive Landscape Mastery: Maintain understanding of the competitive landscape to establish differentiation and leadership.
• AI Tool Integration Workflows: Champion adoption of AI tools across product definition, telemetry synthesis, and lifecycle workflows.
• Cross-Functional Adoption: Drive cross-functional engagements across products and software, with a focus on GTM execution.
• Sovereign Regulated Markets: Drive strategy for regional compliance and data privacy sovereignty across global mandates.
• Ecosystems, Integration Partnerships: Own build-partner-buy strategy and drive future opportunities with strategic partners.

Job description

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Lenovo is a US$83 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #153 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY).

This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

As the Director of Product Management for the ThinkShield portfolio, you will drive the strategic vision, business and portfolio management, and market execution for our cybersecurity portfolio of offerings.

We are seeking an entrepreneurial, driven leader who balances rigorous technical capabilities with strong business acumen. Customer and market empathy are a must. Working and executing collaboratively across the organization is expected.

In this role, you will lead the business, roadmap, product management, and vision. You will accelerate growth, anticipate the future, and lead cross-functional initiatives to continue the transformation of our cybersecurity business.

Responsibilities

• Drive Portfolio Growth: Lead product/portfolio strategy to capture expansion across SMBs and enterprises. AI is a given.
• Portfolio Optimization Customer Success: Identify critical technological and business gaps within the portfolio that hinder market adoption, and proactively architect strategies to resolve them.
• System-Level Specifications: Translate high-level business and transformational goals into rigorous specification definitions, bridging product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Go-To-Market (GTM) Partnership: Work in lockstep with GTM (direct, partners, channel, SIs) and Marketing to develop high-conversion sales plays, pricing strategies, and launch plans that translate new capabilities into quantifiable customer value. Identify and address opportunities for revenue growth. You own the business. Execution is vital.
• Competitive Landscape Mastery: Maintain a dynamic understanding of the competitive landscape to establish clear differentiation and market leadership.
• AI Tool Integration Workflows: Champion the adoption of advanced AI tools across product definition, telemetry synthesis, and automated product lifecycle workflows.
• Cross-Functional Adoption: Drive cross-functional engagements across products and software, with a keen eye on GTM execution.
• Sovereign Regulated Markets: Drive the strategy for regional compliance and data privacy sovereignty, ensuring architectures align seamlessly with global regulatory mandates.
• Ecosystems, Integration Partnerships: Own the build-partner-buy strategy for your portfolio. Work with our strategic partners on technical integrations and future roadmaps, and drive future opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience with a proven track record of shipping enterprise-grade products and solutions that landed in the market.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong engineering mindset with an exceptional capacity to conceptualize and deliver clean, articulated requirements and use cases—in short, product-market fit.
• Strong business acumen with experience managing complex monetization constructs, linking technical milestones to financial outcomes, and taking products and solutions from ideation to revenue impact.
• Strong background partnering with Sales and Marketing to enable field teams and align product roadmaps with market demand.
• Exceptional ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and present data-driven insights to executive leadership.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.