Principal Product Manager

Cyware; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyware seeks a seasoned Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution for its cyber security offerings. You will own the roadmap, coordinate with UX and info-dev teams, and shepherd products from ideation through migration while aligning with customers’ needs and security domain requirements.

The role demands strong PM experience in an enterprise setting, deep cyber security domain knowledge, and a proven track record in shipping AI/ML features.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of PM or customer-facing enterprise product experience.
• Cyber security domain experience, preferably Threat Intelligence.
• Experience shipping AI/ML features and understanding model tradeoffs.
• Ability to write PRDs, run customer discovery, define success metrics, and ship iteratively.
• Deep understanding of security buyer journey and enterprise sales dynamics.
• Data-driven mindset with comfort in ambiguous data and usage metrics.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• UX/UI design awareness is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define product strategy and roadmap aligned to org vision and secure leadership buy-in.
• Develop current/future features and evaluate customer needs for viability.
• Collaborate with UX and info-dev teams to own customer experience.
• Manage full product lifecycle from ideation to migration.
• Maintain product backlog and propose technical alternatives when needed.
• Participate in development, testing, and deployment reviews.
• Deliver product demonstrations and training for key customers.
• Act as a leader to drive product innovation across the company.

Skills

Product strategy

Domain knowledge

AI product experience

Startup execution

Customer obsession

Data-driven decision making

Written and verbal communication

UX/UI awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree (technical)

MBA

Job description

Cyware powers the world’s leading Cyber Fusion Centers unifying threat intel (TIP), security automation (SOAR), and case management into a single operating system for defenders. We protect Fortune 500s, governments, ISACs/ISAOs, and MSSPs. Series C funded, lean, and moving fast.

What You Will Do

• Lead the definition of the product strategy and roadmap to support the organization vision and deliverables. Be the custodian of the strategy and garner support from leadership for initiatives. Convert the strategy into a roadmap for market dominance, moat and individual product strategy, counter competitive narrative and respond to customer requirements
• Manage the development of current and future features, user stories, and requirements while evaluating their potential and practicality by analyzing customer needs
• Collaborate with the UX design and Info dev teams to own the customer experience with the product
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation, design, development, launch, end-of-life and migration
• Manage the product backlog and recommend alternative technical approaches to meet design requirements when needed
• Participate in development, testing, and deployment reviews to assure requirements are being properly addressed
• Product demonstration and training for the field, operational teams and critical customers
• Act as a leader within the company; help drive product innovation into the corporate culture

What We Are Looking For:

• Strong PM experience: 8+ years of experience as a Product Manager or a customer-facing role as a domain expert in an enterprise product environment with proven capability of leading product initiative across various stakeholders (both internal and external)
• Domain Knowledge: Good experience in Cyber security, preferably in Threat Intelligence and related areas. Should have hands-on experience with building & shipping products in these domains.Can credibly challenge and validate product decisions with practitioners
• Applied AI Product Experience: Has shipped AI/ML-powered features and not just managed roadmaps around them. Understands fundamentals related to model tradeoffs, latency, hallucination risk, evaluation pipelines, and what "AI-native" means in a security product context
• Startup execution mindset: Thrives in ambiguity with minimal process scaffolding. Leverages AI wherever applicable for the entire PDLC and can write their own PRDs, run customer discovery, define success metrics, and ship iteratively while collaborating with Engineering, GTM and Sales
• Customer Obsession: Understands the security buyer & user journey including SOC analysts, CTI leads, CISOs, and the procurement nuances. Can translate practitioner pain into product value props that close enterprise deals and retain customers long-term
• Metrics & data driven mindset: Is data & metrics driven and makes hard tradeoff decisions using usage data, NPS signals, win/loss patterns, etc. Comfortable with ambiguous data and uses frameworks to help guide
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• UX and/or User Interface Design skills will be a key plus
• A technical bachelor’s degree and MBA preferred

Nice to Have:

• ISAC / Threat Sharing Experience
• Deep AI & LLM knowledge
• Has been part of a team that has grown significantly quickly.