Competitive Intelligence Technical Engineer 24052

We are looking for an exceptional and passionate Competitive Intelligence Technical Engineer. A Member of the competitive technical analysis/intelligence group for Check Point’s security portfolio.

If you are tech savvy and technical with great research skills, excel in collection and analysis, are driven by curiosity and passion, and seek a unique opportunity to grow and contribute in an exciting and rewarding environment, then we want to meet you!

Major Responsibilities

• 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.

Desired Background

• 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).