What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Protection and Compliance Consultant position at Proofpoint?
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Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
Data Protection and Compliance Consultant
The Role
This opportunity is for a candidate who is passionate about Information Protection and Compliance and has a deep understanding of how to leverage Proofpoint Information Protection suite to meet compliance control objectives. The role demands the interaction with both business leaders and technical staff at large-scale enterprises to drive a stronger information protection and compliance posture. The individual will lead the implementation of the Proofpoint Information Protection Suite of products. The implementation life cycle will include clarifying customer objectives and determining how to best leverage the product functionality to meet the customer needs, recommending configuration options and policies, configuring products, assisting with testing and monitoring, and product knowledge transfer. The successful candidate will be organized, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong leadership ability, and experience within Proofpoint Information Protection and compliance. The candidate must take initiative, have strong project management skills, be willing to work in a fast-paced environment, and handle multiple customers at any one time. They need to take responsibility and accept accountability for successful customer engagements.
Your day-to-day
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range 87,900.00 - 128,920.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska
Base Pay Range 71,025.00 - 104,170.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above
Base Pay Range 64,950.00 - 95,260.00 USD
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
Protection Starts with People. Proofpoint.
Data Protection and Compliance Consultant
The Role
This opportunity is for a candidate who is passionate about Information Protection and Compliance and has a deep understanding of how to leverage Proofpoint Information Protection suite to meet compliance control objectives. The role demands the interaction with both business leaders and technical staff at large-scale enterprises to drive a stronger information protection and compliance posture. The individual will lead the implementation of the Proofpoint Information Protection Suite of products. The implementation life cycle will include clarifying customer objectives and determining how to best leverage the product functionality to meet the customer needs, recommending configuration options and policies, configuring products, assisting with testing and monitoring, and product knowledge transfer. The successful candidate will be organized, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong leadership ability, and experience within Proofpoint Information Protection and compliance. The candidate must take initiative, have strong project management skills, be willing to work in a fast-paced environment, and handle multiple customers at any one time. They need to take responsibility and accept accountability for successful customer engagements.
Your day-to-day
- Engage with our customers to understand their structure and workflow in order to become a trusted advisor
- Drive complex implementations while working side by side with the customers to meet their Information Protection security and compliance requirements
- Work with internal teams (e.g. engineering, sales, and product management) and external partners to ensure that customer requirements are well understood and tracked
- Coordinate with multiple parties to ensure timely and satisfactory resolution to customer issues, and completion of projects
- Oversee a team of Data Protection professionals to ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction
- Develop and mentor other PCMS resources to help improve their technical knowledge, project management, and customer management skills
- Knowledge of data protection tools including Proofpoint Enterprise DLP, CASB and cloud services
- Define and document the best practice techniques, processes, templates, and architectures for use by the managed services team
- Leverage previous experiences, share best practices, and facilitate creative solutions to unique challenges maximizing the value of our Information Protection products
- 5 years industry experience in a Professional Services Consulting role
- Extensive knowledge and experience with Information Protection and Compliance
- Technical background in enterprise applications, software, and services
- Experience with data protection tools including Proofpoint Enterprise DLP, CASB and cloud services
- Strong project management skills with great attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong knowledge in writing and understanding Regular Expressions a plus
- Must be comfortable with presenting and explaining technology to Senior Business Executives and people with high technical knowledge
- Have a good understanding of the sales process, be sensitive to sales situations, and possess excellent customer service skills
- Must be able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate experience leading a team of Information Protection professionals
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and influence skills
- Ability to work independently, adapt quickly, and have a positive attitude
- Demonstrated experience in supporting Fortune 500 or other large customers
- BA/BS or higher in related field
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
Consistent with Proofpoint values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets as set out below. Pay within these ranges varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate. The range provided may represent a candidate range and may not reflect the full range for an individual tenured employee. This role may be eligible for variable pay and/or equity. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes flexible time off, a robust well-being program that provides for 4 global wellbeing days per year, and a 3-week work from anywhere option.
Base Pay Ranges
SF Bay Area, New York City Metro Area
Base Pay Range 87,900.00 - 128,920.00 USD
California (excludes SF Bay Area), Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Washington DC Metro, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Virginia, and Alaska
Base Pay Range 71,025.00 - 104,170.00 USD
All other cities and states excluding those listed above
Base Pay Range 64,950.00 - 95,260.00 USD
Salary : $64,950 - $128,920
