Director, Product & AI Strategy

Styx Intelligence Inc.; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 235,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Leadership role with direct impact

Shape AI-driven threat intelligence

Flexible work environment

Job summary

Styx Intelligence Inc. is seeking a Director of Product & AI Strategy in Vancouver, hybrid, to partner with the CEO and CTO on the product vision and AI-first strategy.

You will own the evolution of the Digital Risk Protection platform and shape roadmap, architecture, and customer value in a fast-growing security company. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on execution, ideal for a builder who thrives in an early-stage environment and aims to scale a category-leading solution in

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management with leadership experience.
• Experience building and scaling SaaS platforms.
• Experience with AI/ML-driven products, including LLM-based systems.
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work with engineers.
• Experience in startups or early-stage companies (Seed–Series B preferred).
• Proven ability to define and execute product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Partner with CEO and CTO to align product direction with goals and market opportunities.
• Translate customer needs, threat landscape trends, and competitive insights into product innovation.
• Lead product planning, prioritization, and execution processes.
• Define and track product KPIs including adoption, retention, and customer value.
• Define and execute Styx’s AI-first platform strategy.
• Identify and implement AI/LLM opportunities across threat detection, enrichment, automated analysis, and alert triage.
• Partner closely with engineering to operationalize AI capabilities into production.
• Evaluate and integrate external AI models, tools, and infrastructure where appropriate.
• Ensure responsible, secure, and scalable use of AI.
• Drive expansion into adjacent threat intelligence and cyber use cases.
• Define platform architecture direction in collaboration with CTO.
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows and priorities.
• Support enterprise sales cycles where product leadership is critical.

Skills

Product leadership

SaaS platforms

AI/ML products

Technical fluency

Startup experience

Strategy execution

Customer-focused

Job description

Product & Engineering Full Time Vancouver, BC Hybrid $245,000 - $250,000 CAD per year

We are hiring a Director, Product & AI Strategyto partner directly with the CEO and CTO to define and execute Styx Intelligence’s product vision and AI-first strategy.

This leader will own the evolution of our Digital Risk Protection platform and help transform Styx into an AI-native threat intelligence company.

You willoperateat the intersection of product, AI, threat intelligence, and customer value—shaping roadmap, driving execution, and ensuring we build category-defining capabilities.

This role is both strategic and hands-on, ideal for a builder who thrives in early-stage environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Own and drive the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Partner with CEO and CTO to align product direction with company goals and market opportunities
• Translate customer needs, threat landscape trends, and competitive insights into product innovation
• Lead product planning, prioritization, and execution processes
• Define and track product KPIs including adoption, retention, and customer value
• Define and execute Styx’s AI-first platform strategy
• Identifyand implement AI/LLM opportunities across:
• Threat detection and classification
• Signal enrichment and correlation
• Automated intelligence analysis
• Alert prioritization and triage
• Copilots and analyst augmentation
• Partner closely with engineering to operationalize AI capabilities into production
• Evaluate and integrate external AI models, tools, and infrastructure where appropriate
• Ensure responsible, secure, and scalable use of AI
• Evolve Styx’s Digital Risk Protection platform into a differentiated, category-leading solution
• Drive expansion into adjacent threat intelligence and cyber intelligence use cases
• Identifyopportunities for automation and scale
• Define platform architecture direction in collaboration with CTO
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, pain points, and priorities
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success on product positioning and key deals
• Support enterprise sales cycles where product leadership presence is critical
• Represent Styx in customer, partner, and industry conversations

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as a core member of the leadership team
• Build and scale the product function over time
• Establish best-in-class product management practices
• Align engineering, intelligence, and GTM teams around product priorities

WhatWe’reLooking For

Required Experience

• 8+ years in product management, including leadership roles
• Experience building and scaling SaaS platforms
• Experience with AI/ML-driven products, ideally including LLM-based systems
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work closely with engineers
• Experience at a startup or early-stage company (Seed–Series B preferred)
• Proven ability to define and execute product strategy

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in one or more of:
• Cybersecurity
• Trust & Safety
• Experience building AI-native or AI-first platforms
• Experience working with security teams or intelligence workflows
• Experience taking products from early traction to scale
• Builder mindset — thrives in ambiguity and early-stage environments
• Strategic thinker with strong execution ability
• Customer-obsessed
• Highly collaborative
• Comfortable operating both strategically and tactically
• Strong communicationand leadership presence

Why This Role Matters

This role will directly shape the future of Styx Intelligence.You will help define:

• Our platform differentiation
• Our ability to scale into a category leader

This is a rare opportunity to join early and haveoutsizedimpact.

What We Offer

• Meaningful equity
• Leadership role with direct impact
• Opportunity to shape an emerging leader in AI-driven threat intelligence
• Flexible work environment

About the Market Opportunity

The digital risk protection and threat intelligence market is undergoing massive transformation driven by:

• Explosion of external threat surface
• Rise of AI-enabled adversaries
• Increasing enterprise demand for proactive intelligence
• Shift toward AI-augmented security operations

Styx Intelligence is positioned to be at the forefront of this shift.

Compensation

• Salary Range:Total Compensation package up to $250K CAD.
• Position Status: Existing Vacancy

Styx Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive hiring process. Accommodations are available throughout recruitment upon request. Styx may use AI-assisted tools during recruitment to support the process, all hiring decisions remain human-led.