Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism

SimSpace; United States; On-site; USD 215,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary range: $215k–$250k

Health benefits

401(k) with company match

Unlimited vacation

Equity stock options

Wellness and parental leave

Job summary

SimSpace seeks a Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism, to shape the next decade of cyber environment realism. You’ll own vision, strategy, and a technical roadmap, collaborating with engineering, UX, and research teams, and engaging with Fortune 500 security teams, government agencies, and the military to translate insights into products.

You will drive alignment across teams to deliver scalable capabilities for attack simulation, user activity, cloud services, and AI-assisted

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a track record of delivering technical products.
• Experience owning cyber products, platform products, or AI/ML platforms.
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work with senior engineering leaders.
• Ability to translate customer value into product strategy and roadmaps.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Define vision, strategy, and roadmap for Environmental Realism portfolio.
• Align customer needs with technical innovation, scalability, and differentiation.
• Lead cross-functional teams including engineering, UX, and content groups.
• Collaborate with industry leaders and government partners to shape requirements.

Skills

8+ years product management

cybersecurity/AI infrastructure

strategic product judgment

stakeholder management

excellent written/verbal communication

Job description

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.

Why join SimSpace? We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere every day which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

How Do We Work? We believe that people are at the center of everything we do. SimSpace fosters a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and professional growth. That belief shows up in action: in-house training, internal and external learning platforms, cyber conferences, industry events, and dedicated time for skill development. Our people are empowered to shape their careers - and it shows. Year over year, SimSpace consistently outperforms industry benchmarks in internal mobility, promotions, and total rewards growth.

Who Thrives Here? We are a team of innovators, protectors, and problem-solvers. We believe diversity of thought and experience fuels better solutions, and we’re committed to building teams that reflect the communities we serve. Whether you’re remote or office-based, you’ll collaborate with talented colleagues across departments and time zones, united by the mission to create a safer digital world.

We invite you to apply today!

Environmental Realism

Shape the Future of Agentic Cybersecurity

Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity. Autonomous agents are beginning to investigate alerts, hunt threats, operate security tools, orchestrate response actions, and work alongside human analysts. The next generation of cybersecurity won’t simply be powered by AI—it will increasingly depend on autonomous systems operating in complex enterprise environments.

The challenge facing the industry isn’t just building these systems. It’s building confidence that they can be trusted.

At SimSpace, we\'ve built one of the industry\'s leading AI Proving Grounds, enabling cybersecurity vendors, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and military organizations to build, test, validate, and operationalize AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities in realistic cyber environments.

As Principal Product Manager for Environmental Realism, you\'ll help define what those environments look like for the next decade.

What Makes This Role Different

Most product management roles focus on building products.

This role helps shape an industry.

You\'ll work directly with the teams building the world\'s next generation of AI-powered cybersecurity products. Every quarter, you\'ll sit down with the engineers, researchers, and product leaders defining the future of autonomous cyber operations to understand the challenges they\'re trying to solve. At the same time, you\'ll partner with Fortune 500 security teams, government agencies, and military organizations responsible for defending some of the world\'s most critical infrastructure to understand what they\'ll require before trusting those technologies in real-world operations.

Your job is to turn those insights into the next generation of SimSpace\'s Environmental Realism platform.

That means defining how realistic cyber environments evolve to support the future of agentic cybersecurity—from attack simulation and enterprise user activity to cloud services, SaaS applications, simulated internet infrastructure, and AI-assisted environment generation.

The products you define won\'t simply improve cyber ranges. They\'ll influence how autonomous cybersecurity systems are built, evaluated, and trusted across the industry.

What You\'ll Do

Define the Future of Environmental Realism

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one of SimSpace\'s most strategic product portfolios.

Determine how Environmental Realism evolves to support emerging AI-native security products, autonomous cyber agents, and increasingly sophisticated cyber operations.

Balance customer needs, technical innovation, platform scalability, and long-term strategic differentiation.

Serve as the cross-functional leader for Environmental Realism, bringing together engineering, UX, cyber experts, range content teams, customer-facing organizations, and executive leadership around a common strategy. Drive alignment, facilitate difficult prioritization decisions, and ensure multiple teams execute as a coordinated portfolio rather than independent initiatives.

Work Alongside Industry Leaders

Partner Directly With

• Cybersecurity companies building the next generation of AI-native security products.
• Enterprise security organizations adopting autonomous cyber capabilities.
• Government agencies and military organizations preparing for the future of AI-enabled cyber operations.
• Internal cyber experts, researchers, and engineers advancing the state of the art in cyber simulation.

Rather than reacting to market trends, you\'ll help define them.

Build the Platform That Builds Trust

Guide The Evolution Of Capabilities Including

• Attack simulation and adversary behavior
• User activity and traffic generation
• Enterprise networks, operating systems, and application ecosystems
• Simulated cloud, SaaS, and internet services
• Reusable cyber environments
• AI-assisted environment creation
• Environmental automation and orchestration

Every investment should answer one question: How do we create cyber environments realistic enough that customers trust the results produced inside them?

Turn Emerging Ideas into Products

Translate conversations with customers, partners, researchers, and engineering into product strategy and roadmap investments. Partner closely with engineering and UX to deliver platform capabilities that scale across every SimSpace solution while creating meaningful competitive advantage. Represent SimSpace\'s Environmental Realism strategy with customers, analysts, and industry partners.

What Success Looks Like

You\'ll be successful when:

• Leading cybersecurity companies use SimSpace to build and improve agentic security solutions.
• Government and military customers rely on SimSpace to evaluate operational readiness for AI-enabled cyber capabilities.
• Customers choose SimSpace because our environments most closely reflect the complexity of real enterprise operations.
• Environmental Realism becomes an even stronger competitive differentiator for SimSpace.
• Your roadmap directly influences how the cybersecurity industry builds confidence in autonomous cyber systems.

What Are The Qualifications To Apply?

To be successful as a Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism, you need:

• Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a proven track record of delivering successful technical products, or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, simulation, security operations, or enterprise technology.
• Demonstrated experience owning cyber products, platform products, infrastructure products, developer platforms, enterprise technical products, AI/ML platforms, cloud platforms, or other complex systems-oriented products.
• Strong technical fluency and the ability to work directly with senior engineering leaders on architecture, platform design, APIs, data flows, integrations, scalability, reliability, security, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Experience defining clear functional and non-functional requirements that enable engineering teams to understand the intended outcome, constraints, customer value, and success criteria.
• Strategic product judgment, including the ability to connect technical platform investments to customer value, market differentiation, business outcomes, and long-term product direction.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts related to attacks, adversary behavior, threat actors, threat emulation, detection, response, controls validation, and security operations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise customer needs, technical buying dynamics, stakeholder management, and product discovery in complex B2B environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex platform, AI, and cybersecurity concepts into clear product strategy and customer value.

Preferred But Not Required

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, agent evaluation, GPU/CPU performance considerations, data pipelines, or AI development workflows.
• Experience with platform technologies such as cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, hypervisors, APIs, distributed systems, developer experience, observability, or infrastructure automation.
• Experience with cyber ranges, simulation environments, training platforms, security operations, threat emulation, adversary emulation, red team or blue team workflows, incident response, or controls validation.
• Familiarity with security tools or concepts such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, or Splunk.
• Experience building or scaling products that serve both technical operators and executive decision-makers.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, GCIH, PMP, PMC, or equivalent experience are helpful but not required.

We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:

• Compensation. Base salary range: $215,000 – $250,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions.
• Health & Wellness. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
• Mental Health Support. Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
• Financial Well-Being. Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
• Flexible Time Off. Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members.
• Parental Leave. Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.
• Ownership Opportunities: Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.
• Referral Rewards: Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.
• Continuous Learning: Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.
• Social Connections: Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
• Extra Perks: Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.

SimSpace Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [e-mail].

SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.

Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.