Principal Product Manager, Very Good Security
Enterprise Platform
€180-250k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Open for applications
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
€180-250k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- This is a role for a high-agency leader who thrives on complexity and demands technical perfection
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in software engineer tooling development, product management, or related functions. Must have experience launching new initiatives that involve designing and building APIs, O11y, private networking, enterprise authentication systems, and other software developer-related technologies
- T-Shaped Technical Mastery: This position requires a broad proficiency across networking, observability, technical protocols, enterprise architecture, and software development. However, you must possess deep, expert-level depth in at least one of these areas
- Technical Conviction: You have strong, well-founded opinions on software architecture. You are willing to advocate for the right technical decision, even when it is difficult or contrarian, rather than just the easy one
- Communication Skills: This position involves communicating new ideas to customers, executives, GTM leaders, and implementation teams.
- Therefore, strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills are required to be successful in this role. This includes writing technical documentation that is ready to be published online and that can be included in technical RFP presentations
- Experience working on B2B or B2B2C products and directly engaging with customers
- Mindset: Relentlessly Organized: You bring order to chaos. You treat a product launch with the same meticulous planning as a complex logistical operation
- Pragmatic Optimism: You view legacy code and technical debt not as a burden, but as a puzzle to be solved. You bring energy and a "can-do" spirit to the most difficult modernization challenges
- Nice to Have: Domain knowledge in financial products, particularly payment acceptance, financial systems, digital wallets, and money movement rails
- Experience working with GTM teams to bring new products to market
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to serve as the architect of our platform's evolution
- You won't just build features; you will define the rigorous standards, migration strategies, and primitive structures that power the world's leading payment credential platform
- In this role, you will work across our company and customer base to deliver products in the service of security, compliance, SRE teams, as well as back-end engineers
- You will need to understand users, products, and business needs to refine existing—and define new—capabilities in our proxy services, CLI, observability tooling, private networking, batch file processing, and enterprise authentication systems.We seek a curious, tech-minded, and highly resourceful PM who can rapidly build and iterate solutions
- You must be willing to drive technical rigor at the lowest level
- This means doing the hard, foundational work required to maintain a high-quality experience for all VGS developer products
- Drive Platform Convergence: You'll audit, consolidate, and elevate our API and tooling surfaces into a unified, best-in-class developer experience. You will be responsible for the 'integrity' of the platform
- Architect an Agent-Ready Platform: Drive the convergence of disparate tools into a single, high-fidelity surface
- You will impose strict semantic standards to ensure our APIs, connectivity options, external O11y offering, CLI, and IAC tooling are well-documented, self-describing and machine-parsable, reducing friction for human developers while enabling reliable interaction for the next generation of AI coding agents
- Own Technical Debt & Modernization Strategy: Lead the high-stakes navigation of deprecating legacy systems and migrating enterprise customers to modern architecture with zero downtime
- Product Strategy & Discovery: Meet with business, product, and engineering leaders to map complex problems to business needs. Define technical requirements, prioritize features, and create roadmaps that align with business objectives
- Product Design: Conceptualize easy-to-use technical interfaces and partner with UX Designers and Engineers from various disciplines to develop high-fidelity experiences. Continuously engage with clients to identify key challenges, prioritize, and build engaging solutions through the UI
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead cross-functional teams (Engineering, UX, Testing, Sales, Project Management, Legal, Security, etc.) to deliver against the product roadmap
- Launch and Support: Own launch-related activities, including customer onboarding, integration support, creating implementation guides, and training
- Performance Analysis: Define and track KPIs and analytics to report product performance, inform decision-making, and guide future roadmap
- Stakeholder Communication: Communicate new features and roadmaps to various stakeholders and provide updates to management
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’s secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS is trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(Co-Founder)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(Co-Founder)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
Chuck Yu
(CEO)Previously CRO at DriveWealth, Vice President of Digital Partnerships at Visa and Head of Finance and Operations at Point.
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