Principal Product Mgr: AppSec and ASPM

QLYS_IN Qualys Security TechServices Private Ltd.; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualys, Inc. in Pune seeks a Principal Product Manager to lead ASPM within the Enterprise TruRisk Management platform, defining the roadmap and execution strategy for discovering, prioritizing, and remediating application security risk.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Design, Threat teams, and GTM to drive adoption, customer value, and market differentiation while guiding AI-powered security insights and scalable capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of product management experience, including 5+ years in cybersecurity or enterprise SaaS.
• Experience in ASPM, API security, Web App Security (SAST, DAST, and SCA), Vulnerability Management.
• Ability to work deeply with engineering, threat research, design, and security teams.
• Strong product judgment, customer discovery skills, and ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer value.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive, customer, analyst, and internal audiences.
• Ability to learn quickly and keep up with fast changing AppSec domain.
• Familiarity with CVE, CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, MITRE ATT&CK, and related security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap, execution plan and success metrics for ASPM.
• Build capabilities that help customers discover, prioritize, and remediate application security risk based on discovery, exploitability, application criticality, and business impact.
• Partner with Engineering and Design and Threat teams to build the intelligence foundation for ASPM, including data ingestion, normalization, correlation, enrichment, scoring, and AI-assisted experiences.
• Engage AppSec leaders, vulnerability managers, DevOps practitioners to uncover customer problems, validate solutions, and shape the ASPM roadmap.
• Shape how ASPM intelligence powers ETM, TruRisk, risk operations, and Agentic AI-driven decision-making.
• Partner with GTM teams on launches, enablement, positioning, and competitive differentiation.

Skills

Product management

Cybersecurity

Executive communication

Customer discovery

Job description

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Principal Product Manager, ASPM Qualys is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead ASPM (Application Security Posture Management), within the Enterprise TruRisk Management platform. ASPM provides unified visibility, risk-based prioritization, and integrated remediation to help organizations manage application security risk continuously and autonomously. As the PM, you will define the roadmap and execution strategy for how customers discover, consume, prioritize, and remediate application security risk, while driving ideas to increase product adoption and grow the ASPM business. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of Application Security, vulnerability management, and Agentic AI.

You will work closely with Engineering and Design to turn ideas into scalable, customer-facing capabilities; validate them with customers; partner with Marketing on go-to-market execution; and work with Sales to drive adoption and business growth.

What You’ll Own

• Define the roadmap, execution plan and success metrics for ASPM.
• Build capabilities that help customers discover, prioritize, and remediate application security risk based on discovery, exploitability, application criticality, and business impact.
• Partner with Engineering and Design and Threat teams to build the intelligence foundation for ASPM, including data ingestion, normalization, correlation, enrichment, scoring, and AI-assisted experiences.
• Engage AppSec leaders, vulnerability managers, DevOps practitioners to uncover customer problems, validate solutions, and shape the ASPM roadmap.
• Shape how ASPM intelligence powers ETM, TruRisk, risk operations, and Agentic AI-driven decision-making.
• Partner with GTM teams on launches, enablement, positioning, and competitive differentiation.

Success Looks Like

• ASPM becomes the application risk intelligence layer for ETM customers.
• Customers cut through application security noise and focus on the exposures that matter most.
• Qualys research and threat intelligence are transformed into scalable, actionable application security insights.
• ASPM drives adoption, expansion, and differentiation for ETM.
• AI and automation accelerate analyst productivity and decision-making without introducing black-box risk.

Required Experience

Minimum 8 years of product management experience, including 5+ years in cybersecurity or enterprise SaaS.

• Experienced in one or more of the following domains: ASPM, API security, Web App Security (SAST, DAST, and SCA), Vulnerability Management
• Ability to work deeply with engineering, threat research, design, and security teams.
• Strong product judgment, customer discovery skills, and ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer value.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive, customer, analyst, and internal audiences.
• Ability to learn quickly and keep up with fast changing AppSec domain.
• Familiarity with CVE, CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, MITRE ATT&CK, and related security frameworks.

Preferred Experience

• Some knowledge of Agentic AI and AI security would be highly preferred
• Prior hands-on experience as Application Security Analyst or Pen-tester is a big plus

Why This Role Matters

ASPM is a critical part of Qualys’ vision for Enterprise TruRisk Management. It brings together application findings, vulnerability management, Qualys research, asset context, and business risk to help customers move from reactive application security to proactive, risk-based Application Security Posture Management. This role will help shape how Application Security, Vulnerability Management, AI, and automation come together to power the next generation of Application Security Posture Management.

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.