Chief Product Officer, Opal
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Developing computer and network security for enterprises
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Developing computer and network security for enterprises
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate a world where enterprises can adopt security best practices without slowing down.
Role
Who you are
- 12+ years in product management with at least 3+ years in product leadership roles (VP Product, Head of Product, or CPO)
- Track record building and scaling product organizations through hypergrowth
- Deep experience with highly technical products in security, infrastructure, or developer tools
- Proven ability to drive category creation or significant market redefinition
- Experience building 1-to-n products that became market leaders or category standards
- Strong technical background - either CS degree or you categorize yourself as an honorary engineer who can hold their own with principal engineers
- History of successful executive partnership, especially with Engineering and GTM leaders
- Experience presenting to boards, investors, enterprise customers, and external audiences
Desirable
- Security or identity domain expertise (IAM, PAM, IGA, or adjacent spaces)
- Platform product experience with API-first thinking
- Enterprise SaaS experience selling to security buyers
- Previous startup experience from early stage through scale
- Track record of recruiting and developing exceptional product leaders
What the job involves
- You will define and lead Opal's product vision and strategy as our first Chief Product Officer
- You'll build and scale our product organization, work directly with security and engineering teams at Fortune 500s and startups alike, understand their messy reality, and cement our position as the leader in AI-native IAM
- You'll report directly to our CEO and serve on the executive leadership team, partnering closely with our CTO on technical strategy and our go-to-market leaders on positioning and growth
- We've built a team that works exceptionally well together and has fun doing so. We're looking to bring on new teammates who will both add to and grow with what we're building
- Own Opal's product vision and multi-year strategy. Define where we play, how we win, and what makes us the definitive IAM platform
- Drive category creation and position Opal as the authorization intelligence layer for modern enterprises
- Partner with CEO and executive team on company strategy
- Own what we build and where we expand. Work directly with customers to validate direction, partner with engineering on technical strategy, and ensure our roadmap positions us to win
- Partner deeply with engineering to drive technical strategy, platform architecture, and engineering roadmap alignment
- Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional product talent as we scale
Our take
A platform focused on decentralising access management for enterprise customers, Opal is a company that offer businesses self-serve catalogues and identity management software to streamline workflows and access company data. In big businesses with large numbers of employees, cloud access can lead to a higher threat of security breaches, a problem that has plagued large companies like Amazon for years.
Opal combines its access management software with approval workflow solutions and customised app catalogues to help enterprises expand and keep secure.
Though it’s a competitive marketplace for security software development companies, Opal uses its founders' backgrounds in software engineering to help simplify the management of who accesses a company's data. Named a Rising in Cyber company 2024 on a list by Notable Capital, Opal has large-scale clients such as Databricks, Switchboard, Coinlist, and Merge under its belt as well as robust investors backing it.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2023
$22m
SERIES B
Jun 2022
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.8m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO + 10 company holidays
- Company stipend towards health, vision, and dental insurance
- Weekly meal plan for coffee and lunch
- Travel and mobile phone reimbursement
- 401k plan
Company HQ
Greenwich Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Umaimah Khan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously at Collective Health.
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