Product Manager

Fable Security; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Fable Security, Inc in San Francisco is seeking a Product Manager to own the most impactful parts of the product from problem to shipped outcomes. You will set the direction, own the roadmap, and be accountable for the results, partnering with engineering and security teams.

As one of the first PMs, you will have significant autonomy and influence over the company's direction, shaping how we build products as we grow.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS.
• Proven track record owning a roadmap and shipping products with measurable metrics.
• Experience leading engineering teams and aligning stakeholders.
• Shipped at least one AI-powered feature with model-centric design.
• Strong written communication with specs and strategy docs.
• Comfort working in an early-stage startup with limited process.
• Solid product judgment backed by customer insights and data.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for your area and tie priorities to company goals and customer needs.
• Partner with engineering as co-creators from discovery through delivery, making smart tradeoffs.
• Build AI-native features where the model is the core mechanic and evaluate quality and model tradeoffs.
• Turn ambiguity into clear plans with crisp specs for engineers to act on.
• Drive planning, unblock the team, track progress, and ship with a high bar for impact.
• Stay close to customers by talking to CISOs and security practitioners and analyzing usage data.
• Align stakeholders across sales, customer success, marketing, design, and leadership to ship efficiently.
• Define success metrics before building and adjust course based on data.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap ownership

Shipping products

AI-powered features

Written communication

Startup/fast-moving

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

About Fable

Fable Security is rethinking how organizations manage human risk. Instead of once-a-year training that employees click through, we help security teams see which people are most at risk and change behavior in the moments that matter. Our product spans GenAI-powered briefings, behavioral risk models, multi-channel interventions, an admin and IT surface, analytics, and a growing layer of enterprise integrations.

We're an early-stage startup. That means small teams, high trust, and real ownership. Everyone here has a direct line to customers, to leadership, and to the outcomes their work drives. We move quickly, we're candid with each other, and we care more about solving the right problem than about who gets credit.

The role

We're hiring a Product Manager to own the most impactful parts of the Fable product from problem to shipped outcome. You'll set the direction, own the roadmap, and be accountable for the results, from identifying the right problems to shipping solutions and measuring their impact on customers and the business.

You'll turn customer insights and company goals into a clear product strategy, make the hard prioritization calls, and lead execution alongside engineering. Engineers will be your partners in discovery and solution design, and you'll bring the product judgment and focus that turn strong ideas into successful products.

As one of the first PMs at fable, you'll have significant autonomy, direct influence on the company's direction, and the opportunity to shape how we build products as we grow. This is an individual contributor role with substantial ownership: your impact will come form the products you lead, the decisions you make, and the outcomes you deliver.

What you'll do:

• Own the roadmap for your area. Build and maintain a roadmap that ties directly to company goals and customer needs. Make the tradeoffs explicit and explain the "why" behind every priority.

• Partner deeply with engineering. Work with engineers as co-creators from discovery through delivery. Scope problems together, make smart build-vs-defer calls, and keep the team focused on the work with the most impact.

• Build AI-native product. Help shape features where the model is the core mechanic, not a bolt-on. Think about evals, quality, and what each new model generation makes possible.

• Turn ambiguity into clear plans. Take loosely defined problems, frame them sharply, and write crisp specs that give engineers enough context to make good decisions on their own.

• Drive execution. Run planning and prioritization, unblock the team, track progress, and hold a high bar for what ships and when.

• Stay close to customers. Talk to CISOs and security practitioners regularly. Join customer calls, dig into usage data, and bring real evidence into product decisions.

• Align stakeholders so the team can ship. Keep sales, customer success, marketing, design, and leadership informed and pulling in the same direction. Bring the right people in early, handle disagreement directly, and keep alignment in service of shipping, never as an end in itself.

• Measure what matters. Define success metrics before you build, check them after you ship, and change course when the data says to.

What you bring:

Must-haves

• 7+ years of product management experience, ideally building B2B SaaS products

• A track record of owning a roadmap and shipping products that moved real business metrics

• The engineering teams you've worked with have loved you as a leader and owuld say that you causally led them to victory

• Has shipped at least one AI-powered feature where the model is the core mechanic, and has real opinions on evals, quality, and model tradeoffs

• Strong written communication: you write specs, strategy docs, and updates that people actually read

• Comfort working in an early-stage or fast-moving environment with limited process

• Solid product judgment, backed by both qualitative customer insight and quantitative data

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in cybersecurity, security awareness, or other enterprise security products

• Experience selling to or building for CISOs and security teams

• Prior experience at an early stage startup

How we work

Our BRIEF values shape how we work every day. You'll do well at Fable if these sound like you:

• Trust. You build trust across engineering, design, and GTM by being candid, reliable, and clear. You say no kindly and directly, and people know where they stand with you.

• High bar. You care about quality and craft without over-engineering. You give and seek candid feedback and stay low-ego about where good ideas come from.

• Fast iteration. Requirements won't arrive fully formed. You make good decisions with incomplete information, ship something small, learn from it, and adjust quickly.

• Extreme ownership. When something breaks or falls through the cracks, you don't wait for someone else to fix it. You own the outcome, not just your piece of it, and you own your misses as clearly as your wins.

• Customer obsession. You start with the customer and the problem, not the process or the framework. Real customer evidence drives your decisions.

• We work from our San Francisco office three days a week, fostering collaboration and deep focus.

Compensation: The estimated salary range for this position is $170,000 - $220,000 per year. Total compensation for this position also includes equity, health insurance and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors.

Fable Security is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.