Director of Product Management, strongDM
A.I.
$245-275k
+ Bonus and equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Manages auditable database access
Open for applications
Manages auditable database access
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$245-275k
+ Bonus and equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify infrastructure access by helping companies manage and audit access to their databases, servers, clusters, and web applications.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, understands the complexity of Enterprise Security, and is excited to build from zero to one, then scale
- Have 5+ years in product management, with at least 3 years in security, identity/IAM, or access management
- Have experience in both startups and large enterprises, and can operate at high altitude or in the weeds as needed
- Are deeply curious about identity, trust, and authorization and have build enterprise security products
- Bring a builder’s mindset: You can work from zero-to-one and enjoy ambiguity, but you also know how to scale mature products
- Are comfortable managing a team or acting as a strong individual contributor depending on stage and needs
- Have exceptional storytelling skills - you can sell a vision to execs, engineers, customers, and the market
Desirable
- Have led AI/ML-powered product initiatives from ideation to launch
- Familiarity with modern AI tooling and architectures, including transformer models, vector databases, prompt engineering, and MCP
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a visionary Director of Product Management to lead new product development in our AI initiatives, specifically focusing on identity security, authorization, and privileged access
- You’ll be responsible for shaping and launching cutting-edge products and capabilities
- Own the AI product strategy: Translate emerging market trends in identity, security, and AI into actionable roadmaps and differentiated products
- Bridge startup speed with enterprise-grade thinking: Bring innovation to market fast, while ensuring products meet real-world customer requirements at scale
- Partner deeply across the org: Work closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
- Drive outcomes: Define and own the product from concept to launch with measurable impact that directly ties to growth, adoption, and user success
- Champion discovery: Lead research with CISOs, security architects, and compliance teams to validate real-world pain points and opportunities for AI-driven identity security
- Be a thought leader: Represent StrongDM externally — at conferences, with analysts, and with customers — to showcase our innovation story
- No travel required
Our take
With cyber threats becoming increasingly common over the last decade, securing access permissions within data infrastructures is essential to enterprise survival. However, managing this task can be expensive and complicated, leading some small businesses to combine various budget open-source data services which results in insecure and convoluted infrastructures.
strongDM provides a tool for managing permissions and access within data infrastructures, achieved by ensuring information is siloed to prevent one person from accessing all parts of the infrastructure. In addition to providing these modular security features, the company also makes it easier for technical staff to access the information that they need based on one-click identity checks.
Whilst plenty of data infrastructure tools already exist with the purpose of securing permission, strongDM have made the smart move of integrating their siloed approach to auditable permissions whilst making access easier for those with permission. The company claims that its service guarantees frictionless and auditable data infrastructure by also automating access logging and data capturing across entire IT stacks. Its 2024 funding round will be used to expand its operations into the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. It's also setting up an engineering center of excellence in Poland.
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Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2024
$34m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$54m
SERIES B
Total funding: $110.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- 3 months parental leave
- Equity
- HSA, FSA, short/long-term disability
- 3 weeks PTO + standard holidays
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Downtown, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Justin McCarthy
(CTO)They worked extensively as a Software Engineer before joining CafePress.com as Engineering Manager. They were VP of Engineering at Rafter and CTO at Preact.
Schuyler Brown
(CCO)They received an MBA from Columbia before working as Assistant to the President of Miramax. They were VP of Marketing at Nomi, and a Columnist at Inc. Magazine.
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