# Senior Product Manager

**Company:** [Chainguard](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chainguard)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $205k – $231k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, Developer Tools, platform products, software supply chain security, malware detection, Vulnerability Management, static analysis, software composition analysis, vulnerability scanning, package ecosystems, Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, APIs, security analysis, threat detection
**Posted:** 2026-08-05

> Own product strategy, detection quality, and customer workflows for Chainguard’s shared scanning platform across libraries, containers, and AI agent skills. The role requires 5+ years of product management experience in technical platforms, developer tools, infrastructure, or security.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Detection Quality
- Own coverage, precision, and delivery of core product metrics.
- Drive the feedback loop between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection quality.
- Build workflows for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections quickly.

### Scanner Platform
- Define the roadmap for the shared scanning platform.
- Scale the scanner beyond Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types.
- Balance investments in detection quality, performance, and extensibility.

### Threat Detection
- Expand malware and greyware detection capabilities.
- Partner with Product Security to identify emerging threats and publish actionable intelligence.

### Customer Experience
- Define how customers investigate, enforce, and appeal scanner findings.
- Build intuitive workflows for policy management and enterprise-scale operations.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of Product Management experience with a strong track record building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products.
- Experience owning highly technical platforms or backend infrastructure supporting multiple products or internal customers.
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains.
- Demonstrated success making product prioritization decisions in technically complex and ambiguous environments.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to influence Engineering, Security, Design, and GTM partners.
- Experience taking products or platform capabilities from early concept through customer adoption and iterative improvement.
- Strong technical credibility and comfort discussing architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and security concepts with engineering teams.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with malware detection, static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), or vulnerability scanning.
- Familiarity with package ecosystems such as npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules, or container registries.
- Experience building reusable platform capabilities supporting multiple products.
- Background in cloud infrastructure, software supply chain security, or enterprise security platforms.
- Experience working with AI-assisted security analysis or automated threat detection systems.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: **$205,000–$231,000 USD**.
- Remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly coworking, phone, and internet stipend.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, with participation in secondary offerings and 10 years to exercise options.
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.

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