CheckPoint Competitive Intelligence Technical Engineer 

Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 

496351858

• Proactively gather information on competing products, including detailed functionality to understand, confirm and authoritatively negate competitor's claims via documentation and Hands-On testing.
• Tracking data on our competitors, preparing hard-hitting competitive materials for Check Point sales force, helping our sales force respond to competitive situations and creating effective marketing programs to highlight our competitive differentiation.
• Educating and helping our sales force to better understand competitor's offerings and how to respond to competitive situations.
• Attending meetings with Check Point's salesforce, partners, and customers. hosting webinars to present the competitive materials you've created.
• Work with Product Organization (R&D, product managers, QA) to identify the most compelling competitive differentiation for our products & most compelling features of competitive products.
• Work cross-functionally to ensure competitive information and positioning for all products and solutions in our core business, and own the process of responding quickly to maximize opportunities with press/analysts/customers.
• Track, report, and influence analysts (Gartner, IDC) market share reports; track our competitors, their products, their go-to-market strategies and their financial and market performance.
• Work with strategic goals and identify priority activities and assignments.

This Role requires a mandatory minimum 2-3 years’ experience Technical Background:

• Networking knowledge: switching, bridging, routing. - mandatory
• knowledge with Virtualization (VMware).
• Experience with Check Point security products. – big advantage
• Experience with security solutions like NGFW, Cloud security, Email security, Endpoint security, XDR, SASE, IoT/OT, SaaS Security. – big advantage
• Proficiency and know how in new products
• Experience with installing and implementing cyber security vendors like Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco and others – an advantage
• Knowledge with Threat Prevention/AI/ML – an advantage

Characteristics

• A multi-tasking talent who can operate excellent under pressure
• Fascinated by technology and always looking to learn, explore and research it
• Autodidact
• “Can Do” attitude
• Willingness to travel 4 times a year
• Fluent English (writing and speaking)