Product Manager, Tailscale

• Required: 1-3 years in a product management or customer facing role with foundational exposure to security standards, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), and relevant industry best practices
• Required: Solid foundational knowledge in at least one of the following areas: device approvals, posture checks, RBAC, ACL management, audit logging, along with an eagerness to quickly learn the others
• Required: At least 3 hours of overlap in daily working hours with our UK-based engineering team
• Comfortable learning and engaging hands-on with the product at the command line
• Excellent written communication skills, especially when crafting clear, actionable product requirements and documentation
• Strong interpersonal skills. You genuinely enjoy collaborating cross-functionally, particularly with sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams
• Empathy for users, instinctively prioritizing clear, intuitive, and enjoyable experiences, even within technical contexts

Desirable

• We’re looking for a thoughtful and technically curious Product Manager to join the team at Tailscale, initially focused on Security & Compliance
• Reporting directly to the Group Product Manager overseeing our largest offering, you’ll join a supportive team of senior product leaders who are deeply committed to your growth and success
• You’ll begin by owning clearly defined workflows around device approvals and posture enforcement, key features that help Tailscale confidently serve regulated customers such as banks and healthcare providers
• As you build confidence, your responsibilities will expand into broader security and compliance areas of the product
• At Tailscale, we believe even security should feel intuitive and elegant
• You’ll apply your foundational compliance and security knowledge, along with strong product taste, to design intuitive onboarding experiences, streamlined approval notifications, and actionable audit trails
• While this role is open to current product managers, we are also interested in candidates who are not product managers but are currently in security-focused design, solutions engineering, or other customer-facing roles and ready to step into product management
• You’ll have structured mentorship from a senior product leader, including regular 1:1s, and dedicated support from experienced teams in product management, sales, marketing, and customer success
• Initially own specific workflows, such as MDM/EDR integrations and posture checks, with clear support from senior PMs and engineers
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design teams to create intuitive compliance workflows, frictionless device onboarding, and actionable audit experiences
• Write clear product requirements, manage your feature backlog, and actively work to enable multiple engineering teams
• Regularly engage directly with customers (approximately 25% of your time), supported by Sales and Customer Success teams, through structured interviews and shadowing existing customer interactions
• Collaborate with design, engineering and UXR to translate enterprise security and compliance requirements into simple, user-friendly experiences