Senior Product Manager, Cognisys

• Experience owning or materially shaping product direction within B2B SaaS, platform or technology-led environments
• Track record of helping build, launch or scale products in growth-stage, founder-led or scaling businesses
• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams in technically complex environments
• Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Experience engaging directly with customers and commercial teams
• If you have demonstrated the ability to:
• Shape product direction from ambiguity
• Translate customer and market signals into clear priorities
• Drive commercial thinking alongside technical delivery
• Build momentum and clarity in fast-moving environments
• We would strongly encourage you to apply
• Ownership Mentality - you take responsibility for outcomes, not just output
• Builder Mindset - energised by creating clarity, structure and momentum from ambiguity
• Commercial Awareness - you understand how product decisions impact growth and revenue
• Clarity of Thinking - able to simplify complexity and focus teams
• Decisiveness - comfortable making calls with imperfect information
• Pragmatism - you value progress over perfection
• Strong Communication - able to influence at all levels

Desirable

• Cognisys is scaling quickly - across our client base, capabilities and global footprint
• We are now at a point where product clarity, focus and commercial discipline will define how successfully we scale
• We have already built a strong technical foundation - an AI-driven application security platform with real depth and differentiation. What we now need is someone who can take ownership of the product, take the reins and translate potential into a scalable, revenue-generating SaaS platform
• A strong product does not emerge from engineering alone
• Product leadership must be intentional, not incidental
• Commercial success comes from clear prioritisation, disciplined trade-offs and deep customer understanding
• You will play a central role in shaping how Cognisys evolves this from a highly capable product into a market-leading platform, including building a team to deliver this
• As Senior Product Manager, you will own the end-to-end product direction and execution of our platform
• You will sit at the centre of Engineering, Commercial and Customer, ensuring that what we build is not just technically strong, but valuable, usable and commercially successful
• This is not a delivery coordination role. This is a true product leadership role with real ownership
• Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership
• Own and evolve the product vision in partnership with the CTO and wider leadership team
• Translate customer insight, market signals and commercial priorities into a clear, outcome-driven roadmap
• Make deliberate trade-offs - focusing the business on what matters most
• Define and evolve packaging, pricing inputs and subscription tiers
• Ensure every initiative is tied to measurable business impact (adoption, retention, revenue)
• Driving Product Execution
• Turn strategy into clear, prioritised plans that engineering teams can execute against
• Ensure a high bar for clarity: well-defined problems, outcomes and success measures
• Maintain pace and momentum without compromising quality or focus
• Actively remove blockers and resolve ambiguity quickly
• Customer & Commercial Alignment
• Stay close to customers - understanding real-world problems, not assumed ones
• Partner with Sales and Customer teams to ensure what is sold can be delivered
• Join key customer conversations where product credibility matters
• Translate enterprise needs into a coherent product direction, not one-off features
• AI & Platform Capability Development
• Shape how AI is used across the platform - ensuring it solves real problems
• Guide the development of capabilities such as:
• Automated vulnerability discovery
• AI-assisted remediation
• Intelligent workflows and integrations
• Balance innovation with pragmatism - avoiding “AI for AI’s sake”
• Product Discipline & Insight
• Define success metrics upfront for all product initiatives
• Ensure strong instrumentation and visibility of performance
• Use data to inform decisions - not to justify them retrospectively
• Continuously refine based on evidence, feedback and outcomes
• Cross-Functional Leadership
• Act as the connective point between Engineering, Commercial and Leadership
• Bring clarity where there is ambiguity and alignment where there is friction
• Communicate product direction, trade-offs and progress clearly at all levels
• What this role is not
• To avoid ambiguity, the Product Manager does not:
• Act as a delivery coordinator or project manager
• Own engineering execution or technical architecture decisions
• Operate as a feature factory responding to internal requests
• Sit removed from customers or commercial reality
• This role exists to drive product thinking, direction and outcomes