Director of Product Management, Security
Leads end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for security offerings, with deep expertise in database security, networking, and IAM. Requires 10+ years of B2B SaaS product management experience and organizational-level security strategy leadership.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for security offerings, advocating internally with engineering and leadership and externally with customers and the market.
- Develop deep expertise in database security, networking, and identity and access management (IAM).
- Partner with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship secure products.
- Translate complex security requirements into specifications and user stories.
- Prioritize the backlog and balance business value, customer risk, and engineering cost.
- Drive go-to-market activities for security launches, including positioning, sales enablement, and documentation.
- Monitor security feature performance and use data to guide product decisions.
- Serve as the security subject-matter expert and guide or coach product managers working on security-adjacent problems.
- Represent the security posture and roadmap with customers, prospects, analysts, and other external audiences.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with significant and sustained focus on security products or features.
- Experience setting security strategy at an organizational level.
- Hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
- In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
- Solid program management skills, including planning, execution, and risk management across concurrent workstreams.
- Experience representing products externally and translating technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
- Experience guiding or informally mentoring other product managers.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to exercise judgment about when to escalate and when to make decisions independently.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with shifting priorities.
Nice-to-haves
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+.
Compensation and Benefits
- ATS-listed salary range: $230,000–$310,000 USD annually.
- Typical US starting salary range: $230,000–$290,000 USD.
- Typical US Premium Markets starting salary range: $260,000–$310,000 USD.
- Healthcare contributions.
- Company stock options.
- Flexible time off.
- $500 home office setup for remote employees.
- Opportunities to participate in company-wide offsites.
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
Skills
Product Management, B2B SaaS, Database Security, Networking, Identity And Access Management, IAM, Program Management, Risk Management, Go-To-Market, Sales Enablement, Security Certifications, Cissp, Cism, Comptia Security+
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