Staff Product Manager, Chainguard
$205-240k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
Software supply chain security company
Be an early applicant
Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$205-240k
Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- Technical experience is a must. Either prior experience as a developer, or proven success working with senior technical teams
- Knowledge of packaging and distribution of language ecosystem libraries (Java, Python, Javascript, Rust, etc.)
- Prior experience launching 0 to 1 products and autonomously managing all aspects of major launches with demonstrated good judgement around risk management, scope, and tradeoffs
- Ability to navigate complex decision-making and effectively communicate across teams
- Ability to work effectively and efficiently with cross-functional teams and leaders
- Ability to define clear requirements, write high-level documents, prepare and present material company-wide, and sell an executive team on initiatives
- Excellent written and verbal communication and proven track record with deep customer engagements, hands-on execution and timely delivery
- Ability to adapt and work in a fast-paced environment
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to oversee the development and improvement of Chainguard’s secure supply chain ecosystem
- In this role, you will work alongside other PMs and cross-functional stakeholders to help lead, develop and manage the product roadmap and vision
- You will develop a strong understanding of customer needs and work with engineering to define elegant, differentiating product solutions with well defined priorities
- You have to be able to work through ambiguity to be able to get results
- You will leverage your relationships with your key internal stakeholders to align on priorities and provide prioritized use cases for your engineering partners
- Develop and propose business cases for new products or features based on a strong understanding of the software supply chain security space, current market needs and competitive offerings
- Create written documents that clearly define the problem, proposed and recommended solutions, quantitative and qualitative success measures & targets, cross-functional requirements, and ROI to the business
- Launch new products and features that solve customer problems, evaluate their performance, and iterate quickly
- Work collaboratively with Engineering, Marketing, UX, and other cross-functional teams on cutting edge technologies
- Develop innovative solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions
- Drive the strategy, roadmap and planning cycles
- Drive execution against the roadmap
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2024
$140m
SERIES C
Nov 2023
$61m
SERIES B
Total funding: $256m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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