Chief MSP Officer

WatchGuard has spent 30 years building one of the most trusted names in cybersecurity. The MSP community has always been central to that, and as that community has grown and evolved, so has our commitment to understanding it, serving it, and delivering security through it. The Chief MSP Officer will architect WatchGuard's MSP growth engine, a commercial, community-driven function built to shift brand perception, accelerate partner recruitment, and generate measurable revenue in the MSP segment.

Responsibilities

Architect WatchGuard's MSP growth engine, a commercial, community-driven function built to shift brand perception, accelerate partner recruitment, and generate measurable revenue in the MSP segment; Build an external presence at the events, peer groups, and industry stages where MSPs make decisions, representing WatchGuard with consistency and credibility; Drive early partner recruitment impact through relationships and reputation before the owned infrastructure exists; Launch revenue-generating MSP communities and enablement platforms designed and owned by WatchGuard in year two; Carry internal MSP signal into product, packaging, and GTM decisions

Requirements

You've run something real, a business unit, a market segment, a community that generated commercial outcomes; You can command a room of skeptical MSP operators and hold your own at an exec table; You've been close enough to the market to know what's broken and frustrated enough by the gap between insight and action that you're ready to be on the side of the table that actually decides; You want to build something you can point to