Product Manager, Very Good Security
Proxy
$155-185k
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Job no longer available
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$155-185k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 8 years' work experience in high-scale developer, enterprise or consumer facing products
- Experience in building best-in-class enterprise APIs
- Prior experience with OpenAPI specifications is a big bonus
- Deep understanding of API design and developer experience best practices
- You should be able to identify pain points in the developer experience and work with engineering teams to improve it
- You are a learner, scrappy, take full ownership and thrive in a dynamic and ambiguous environment
- Overall, the requirements for a PM for APIs and Developer Experience would be a mix of product management skills, technical expertise, communication skills, data-driven mindset, and leadership skills, with a focus on APIs and developer experience
- Strong customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution based on user and customer needs
- Excellent technical acumen, curiosity, and familiarity with new technologies, APIs, programming languages, and databases
- Proven track record leading with complex strategic initiatives, working through technical, operational, legal/policy and business issues
- Should be comfortable dealing with ambiguity and solve problems without hand holding
- Should be comfortable using data analytics tools to arrive at hypothesis
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects at various stages of product development simultaneously
- Ability to find solutions to difficult problems quickly and effectively
- Data driven, analytical and fully understand the diverse ways in which our ecosystem of products can be further adopted by our customers
What the job involves
- This product domain focuses on the developer experience from onboarding to operations including admin dashboard, documentation, abstractions for monitoring and alerting, troubleshooting, DevOps automation, and observability
- Establish the vision for a world class developer experience and clear, measurable goals for developer productivity and adoption, in collaboration with product teams and cross-functional leads across the business
- Ensure that our partners, clients and developers have a delightful integration experience, as well as the necessary tools for success
- Identify pain points in the developer experience, and work with cross-functional teams to create a best-in-class experience for developers
- This could involve building tools, creating documentation, improving API design, and more
- Conduct user interviews, user testing and research to understand user behavior as they integrate with and utilize the VGS platform for their day-to-day job functions
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as engineering, design, and customer support, to ensure that the product is delivered on time and meets the needs of customers and developers
- Develop KPIs and metrics to measure and track progress towards success and drive a cross-functional team to set qualitative objectives and quantitative goals
- Discover and prioritize developer use cases and requirements for the end-to-end developer and client journeys – from API exploration to usability and implementation to launch
- Deliver a delightful integration experience to our clients and other 3rd party developers enabled via APIs, SDKs, developer sandbox, libraries, sample code and other popular options in the developer toolkit
- Collaborate cross-functionally work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements; translate them into a product vision and roadmap that aligns with the company's goals
- Stay informed about the latest trends and best practices in API design and developer experience and use this knowledge to continuously improve the products
- Be the subject matter expert for your functional area and the product suite
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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