Principal Product Builder

Axiad; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

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Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Axiad, a leader in identity security, seeks an experienced Product Manager to own product direction for identity risk and management suites. You will drive inbound/outbound, UX, and roadmap, shaping how customers interact with credentials, authentication, and trust across human, machine, and agent identities.

You’ll prototype and ship features with AI-driven workflows, lead discovery through customer interviews, and push learnings back into strategy. Remote or HQ hybrid, full-time.

Qualifications

• Seasoned PM with agentic evolution and mastery of inbound, outbound, UX and prototyping.
• Active, recent building practice — prototypes to PRs deployed by strategic choice.

Responsibilities

• Own product management as a capability: roadmap, inbound, outbound, and UX.
• Drive strategy by continuously aligning with vision and product integration into strategy.
• Actively build product through prototypes, UX, and working software; deliver high-leverage executions.
• Use AI/agents to compress cycles and automate work that shouldn’t require humans.
• Drive outbound: positioning, teardowns, and value narratives.
• Drive inbound: discovery, customer interviews, ruthless prioritization.

Skills

Product management

UX design thinking

Inbound/outbound

AI fluency

Strategic prioritization

Job description

A xiad is the identity security company building first class identity risk and management suite of products — Identity is the rightful center of mass in the cybersecurity space . Axiad Mesh translates identity exposure into prioritize d risk a cross human, machine, and agentic identities, and drives remediation through existing operational systems , and the Axiad Conductor . Join us in innovating and bui lding customer value in this challen hing and urgent space .

Location: US (Remote or HQ Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time

Your Mandate

• Ownproduct managementas a capability— roadmap, inbound, outbound, and UX. The flows, the interaction design, the experience: yours, not a partnerteam's.
• Strategy is a collaboration — noone personowns it. Innovate constantly through the lens of the vision and drive the integration of that innovation into the strategic direction of the products.
• Actively buildproduct— not the rule of the job, but a constant,strategicurgentpractice. Prototypes, UX, working software: you pick the moments where making the thing is the highest-leverage move and take them without asking — handing the last mile to the team when that's the right call, carrying it yourself when it isn't.
• Challenge legacy processes;Use AI/agents to compress cycle times and automate work thatshouldn’trequire humans.
• Drive outbound: positioning, competitive teardowns, why-we-win narratives.
• Drive inbound: discovery, customer interviews, ruthless prioritization.
• Push what youlearnbuilding and selling back into the shared strategy — a living hypothesis the whole team evolves together.
• Prototype what customerscan'tyet articulate.

Your Origin Story

• You'rea career product manager who outgrew the role with your agentic evolution and mastery, shook off itsboundariesand took matters into your own hands.
• Youdon'tjust define productdirection,you execute on it aggressively. You speak in artifacts andprototypes, anddeliveredfeatures. AI multiplies your hands and permeates all aspects of your day.
• You are more than just an AI-native PM.

Domain

• Identity is your center of gravity: credentials, authentication,human,machine, and trust and risk. You think constantly about how the world is built on identity and is core to the enterprise function.
• Post-quantum literacy: you grasp the shape of the problem — crypto agility, algorithm transitions, migration realities — and reason credibly about solution paths. PKI depth is a bonus; reasoning about the space and how it manifests is the bar.

What You Bring

• The agentic evolution of the complete PM discipline, inbound, outbound, UX, from research through interaction design, and beyond.
• An active, recent building practice — prototype to pull request — deployed by strategic choice, not by exception or emergency.
• AI-native fluency : LLMs, agents, skills,agenticworkflows, design andcodegenas force multipliersand used more than any other "tool".
• Competitive instinct — youreada market, find the wedge, articulate the advantage, and drive it.
• Strategic range: equally comfortable in a pull request as a board deck — and equally energized when the best strategic idea in the roomisn'tyours.

How You Operate

• All three modes, fluidly: free solo, small-pod, or a force multiplier across the teams.
• Strategy as a team sport: you innovate relentlessly, then drive that innovation into the direction — arguing through the vision, building on others' contributions as readily as your own.
• The pull toward building — codebase included — is constant; acting on it is your deliberate, strategic call.
• You'rea self-starter to the point of needing restraint. Youwon'tfind it here.
• Yousee beyondevery requestto the underlying problem— return morevaluethan was asked.
• Extreme ownership of outcomes.

Not This Role

• A PM who requests UX design and hands execution to engineering as the gold standard.
• Someone whose coding is prompt-and-paste.
• Someone who only builds when cornered — the desire must be constant, urgent, and strategic.
• Someone who needs to hold the strategy pen alone — or whofloatsideas and waits for someone else to drive them.
• A builder who ships without connecting the work to strategy or market position.

$190K–$250K OTE + equity + benefits

About Us

We are a fast-moving company and are looking for candidates with growth potential, eager to learn and who can demonstrate their abilities and motivation to contribute in a fast-paced environment. Axiad offers a competitive compensation and benefits. You will work in a fun and creative environment with a talented group of individuals that have a passion for building great solutions.

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