Lead Product Manager, AI

ThreatX; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A10 Networks seeks a Lead Product Manager, AI to own the AI product line (AI Firewall and AI gateway) and guide pricing, packaging, and revenue strategy across Thunder and related products. You’ll collaborate with engineering on deployment architectures and drive cross-line AI decisions with multiple PMs, shaping the AI strategy for the portfolio.

You will lead a team, set standards for written artifacts and customer discovery, and represent AI externally to customers, analysts, and at

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management with ownership of an enterprise infrastructure or security product end-to-end
• Demonstrated depth in AI/ML security or AI infrastructure including LLM attack surface and prompt injection
• Strong networking and security fundamentals — L4–L7, TLS, API security, firewalling, DDoS
• Experience with service provider or enterprise sales motions
• Track record of shipping through a formal stage-gate process and cross-functional programs
• Strong written and verbal communication; will present to executives, customers, and analysts

Responsibilities

• Own the AI product line roadmap, pricing, and revenue for AI Firewall and AI gateway
• Collaborate with engineering on deployment architecture across Thunder form factors and integrations
• Set portfolio AI direction and drive cross-line AI decisions with PMs across product lines
• Grow the AI-focused product manager and mature artifacts, customer discovery, and evidence-based decisions
• Be the credible technical voice on AI strategy with customers, prospects, and analysts

Skills

Enterprise PM ownership

AI/ML security

Networking & security

Sales motions

Stage-gate leadership

Written & verbal comms

Job description

Lead Product Manager, AI

A10 protects the infrastructure that carries the internet's traffic. Our customers are now running LLM and agentic workloads on that infrastructure, and they need the same guarantees for AI that they've had from us for two decades on application delivery and DDoS.

This role owns that. You'll carry the roadmap and revenue for A10 AI Firewall and our AI gateway offering, and you'll set the standard for how AI shows up everywhere else in the portfolio — from adaptive learning in A10 Defend Mitigator to behavioral scoring in Defend ThreatX Protect to analytics in A10 Control. You'll have one PM working for you and room to grow the team with the business.

Responsibilities

Own the AI product line

• Set and defend the roadmap for A10 AI Firewall and the AI gateway, from PRD through NPI stage gates to GA and revenue
• Own pricing and packaging, including the identity-based licensing model and discount structure, and defend margin against field pressure
• Partner with engineering on deployment architecture across Thunder form factors — appliance, vThunder, bare metal, and containerized — and on integration with Thunder ADC, SSLi, CFW, and the aXAPI control plane
• Carry bookings, pipeline contribution, and attach rate to the installed base

Set portfolio AI direction

• Define what "AI-enhanced" means at A10 — a common efficacy bar, model transparency standard, and telemetry contract that every product line builds to rather than reinventing
• Drive cross-line AI decisions in partnership with the PMs owning Thunder ADC, CGN, SSLi, CFW, the A10 Defend suite, and A10 Control
• Represent AI in portfolio review, CAB, and the AI CoE intake process, and bring build/buy/partner recommendations forward with the analysis behind them

Grow the team

• Manage and develop one AI-focused product manager, scaling with the business
• Set the standard for written artifacts, customer discovery, and evidence-backed decisions

Own the external story

• Be the credible technical voice on A10's AI strategy with customers, prospects, analysts, and the field — in briefings, at conferences, and on escalated deals
• Drive enablement so SEs and account teams can sell AI capabilities without you on every call

Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years in product management, including at least 2 owning an enterprise infrastructure or security product end to end, with pricing and revenue accountability
• Demonstrated depth in AI/ML security or AI infrastructure: LLM attack surface, prompt injection and model abuse, agentic architectures, MCP and inference traffic patterns, and what an AI gateway actually does in a production path
• Strong networking and security fundamentals — L4–L7, TLS and encrypted traffic inspection, API security, firewalling, DDoS
• Experience with service provider or enterprise sales motions, and the judgment to tell where the two diverge
• Track record of shipping through a formal stage-gate process and of leading cross-functional programs without direct authority over most of the people involved
• Strong written and verbal communication. You'll be in front of executives, customers, and analysts

Preferred

• Prior people management, or clear evidence of readiness for it
• Familiarity with AI governance and compliance frameworks — ISO 42001, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF — and how they translate into product requirements
• Kubernetes, cloud-native, and hyperscaler marketplace deployment models
• Public company experience with quarterly revenue accountability

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Targeted compensation guideline: Up to 200K OTE. Compensation will vary based on number of factors, including market demand for specific skills, role type, job level, and individual qualifications. Final salary offers are determined by considerations including, but not limited to, subject matter expertise, demonstrated skill level, relevant experience, geographic location, education, certifications, and training.

A10 Networks is an equal opportunity employer and a VEVRAA federal subcontractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. A10 also complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.

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