Director, Product Marketing, AI Solutions

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at

As Director of Product Marketing for AI Solutions, you will lead go-to-market strategy, positioning, and messaging for Sophos' AI security portfolio and the emerging categories reshaping how defenders operate, including Sophos AI Defense and Fusion AI.

This is a build-and-launch role, working across product management, Sophos X-Ops research, sales enablement, demand generation, and channel marketing to turn technical innovation into pipeline and customer outcomes. You must be AI-native in how you work, using AI as a multiplier for your own judgment to research faster, draft sharper, and ship at the pace the market demands.

In your capacity as an Individual Contributor within the Sophos Product Marketing team, you will work closely with your Product Marketing colleagues to develop the AI narratives for our broader solution portfolio, including AI-augmented MDR, AI-native detection and response, and protections built for an AI-accelerated threat landscape.

• Own positioning and messaging for Sophos' AI solutions portfolio, including the new and emerging categories where Sophos is defining the market.
• Build the category narrative around AI-native cybersecurity defense, anchored in Sophos' position that AI handles scale and humans handle judgment and accountability.
• Guide the AI-related messaging for the broader Sophos portfolio, ensuring consistency at every point.
• Translate deep technical capability into clear, differentiated, channel-ready stories that resonate with security buyers, MSPs, and end customers.
• Develop and maintain the messaging frameworks, value propositions, competitive positioning, and proof points that ladder to the broader Sophos narrative.

• Lead end-to-end go-to-market planning for new AI solutions and category launches, from internal readiness through external announcement, partner enablement, and demand generation.
• Partner with Product Management to shape launch scope, sequencing, and tiering decisions that align market readiness with product reality.
• Build the asset library that powers each launch: pitch decks, solution briefs, web copy, video scripts, demo narratives, FAQs, battle cards, and partner playbooks.
• Drive cross-functional execution with Brand, Digital, Channel Marketing, Sales Enablement, PR, and Events to deliver coordinated, high-impact launches.

• Equip the Sophos channel network (MSPs, MSSPs, resellers, VARs) to sell, position, and operationalize Sophos’ AI solutions with confidence.
• Build enablement programs in partnership with Sales Enablement and Channel Marketing that meet sellers and partners where they are, from first pitch through technical deep dive.
• Author the talk tracks, objection handling, and competitive positioning that frontline sellers and SEs need to win in AI-influenced deals.

• Maintain a working point of view on the AI cybersecurity market, including category boundaries, competitive moves, analyst coverage, and where Sophos is uniquely positioned to lead.
• Partner with Competitive Intelligence to track and respond to AI-related claims and…