Director, Product Management

Illumio; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Illumio, a leader in breach containment, seeks an senior Product Manager to define, design, and drive the future of Zero Trust and automated containment across hybrid multi-cloud environments. You will work with world-class engineers, partners, and enterprise customers to shape a platform that stops attackers at the network edge.

You will own the strategic vision, lead multi-year roadmaps, and mentor a team of product managers, while collaborating with security operations teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in product management or closely related roles in enterprise security.
• 5+ years shipping analytics, detection, or workflow products for network security.
• 3+ years leading and developing product managers.
• Deep domain expertise in network traffic analysis, security analytics, or threat detection.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year roadmap for advanced security workflows within the Insights platform.
• Drive strategy for threat detection and behavioral analysis for modern SOC environments.
• Partner with engineering leaders to define requirements and prioritize features for agile delivery.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to gather requirements and validate product-market fit.
• Develop innovation roadmap for analytical models and AI/ML features to streamline investigations.
• Lead product planning for platform integrations with ecosystem tools used by security teams.
• Own competitive positioning and articulate Illumio's value proposition with Product Marketing.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of product managers.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Roadmapping

Security analytics

SaaS product management

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

SOC workflow experience

Tools

NetFlow/IPFIX

SIEM/SOAR integrations

Data analytics tooling

Job description

Onwards Together!

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments - stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Location: 5 On-Site Days a Week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision

At Illumio, our product management team thrives on visionary leadership, customer-centric innovation, and relentless execution. We tackle the most critical and complex challenge in modern cybersecurity: stopping malicious actors and containing cyber threats before lateral movement turns an attack into a widespread business catastrophe.

As a product manager here, you will directly define, design, and drive the future of Zero Trust, micro-segmentation, and automated breach containment. You will work side-by-side with world-class engineers, strategic partners, and global enterprise customers to defend highly complex hybrid data centers and multi-cloud architectures.

If you are eager to solve massive, distributed security problems and build resilient software that the world’s largest organizations rely on daily to safeguard their critical infrastructure, join our mission and shape a safer digital future.

Your Impact

• Define and own the strategic vision and multi-year roadmap for advanced security workflows within the Insights platform.
• Drive the product strategy for advanced threat detection and behavioral analysis capabilities tailored to modern security operations center (SOC) environments.
• Partner closely with engineering leadership across multiple engineering teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver capabilities through agile development cycles.
• Collaborate directly with field teams, customers, and strategic partners to gather operational workflow requirements and validate product-market fit.
• Develop the innovation roadmap for advanced analytical models and AI/ML-assisted features that streamline security investigation and triage.
• Lead product planning for platform integrations with ecosystem tools, enabling security operations teams to seamlessly leverage Illumio capabilities within their existing workflows.
• Own competitive positioning against market alternatives, partnering with Product Marketing to articulate Illumio’s unified value proposition.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of product managers, establishing strong PM practices as the organization scales.

Your Toolkit

• 10+ years of experience in product management or closely related roles (engineering, sales engineering, technical pre-sales) in enterprise security or networking.
• 5+ years of product management experience shipping analytics, detection, or workflow products in the network security or cybersecurity domain.
• 3+ years of experience managing and developing product managers.
• Deep domain expertise in network traffic analysis, security analytics, or detection and response - with a practitioner’s understanding of how SOC teams investigate and respond to network-based threats.
• Track record of defining and delivering enterprise SaaS products that security practitioners use daily, with demonstrable outcomes in user adoption and customer retention.
• Experience with data-intensive security products: flow analytics, behavioral detection, SIEM/SOAR integrations, or threat intelligence platforms.
• Established practice of utilizing data and analytics to inform product decisions, including product usage telemetry, customer engagement metrics, and market research.
• Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels - setting multi-year vision while running sprint-level prioritization with engineering teams.

Bonus Points

• Product management experience at a vendor focused on network security analytics, security operations, or detection and response capabilities.
• Experience building products that leverage network flow data (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, VPC Flow Logs) for security use cases.
• Understanding of AI/ML technologies applied to security detection - anomaly detection algorithms, graph neural networks, or LLM-based security reasoning.
• Background in network forensics, incident response, or security operations.
• Experience with Zero Trust architectures, microsegmentation, or network security policy management.
• Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms designed for security analytics at scale.

This position involves access to software/technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.

Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official E-Signature document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.

For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.