Senior Product Manager

Alterion; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Meaningful equity

Opportunity to shape new categories

Job summary

Alterion in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the development of security and governance products for AI agents. You will be responsible for translating user needs into actionable product features and engaging with enterprise leaders to structure pilot programs. Ideal candidates will have 5–10 years in product management and be deeply customer-focused, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and proficient in leveraging AI tools to enhance product delivery.

Join a small, dedicated team, work directly with founders, and contribute to building foundational products in a competitive environment.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in product management, especially as an early PM.
• Ability to think in frameworks while delivering concrete results.
• Focus on user feedback and addressing real problems.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and capable of setting priorities.
• Familiarity with AI tools for product development.

Responsibilities

• Own security & governance product for AI agents.
• Develop intelligence to make governance decisions.
• Engage with design partners and translate their needs.
• Create a clear product narrative from a complex problem space.

Skills

Product management

Structured thinking

Customer obsession

Adaptability

AI tool usage

High ownership

Job description

About Alterion

AI agents are graduating from experiments into real workflows inside the enterprise. Models and agent-building frameworks have improved dramatically, but the infrastructure to govern, observe, and control fleets of AI agents has not kept pace. That’s the gap.

Alterion is building the control plane for the agentic enterprise. We enable organizations to safely adopt, govern, and scale AI agents with full discovery, semantic observability, dynamic policy enforcement, and enterprise-grade controls.

We're AI-native, well-backed, and building something foundational. As a Senior Product Manager here, you'll work directly with the founders to define how enterprises secure and govern AI agents, and own the product surface that makes it real.

The Opportunity

You will:

• Own the security & governance product, from real-time detection and enforcement to risk scoring, audit, and the controls enterprises require to deploy agents safely.
• Build the intelligence, not just the interface — help define and build the Helix AI models and capabilities that turn raw agent traffic into governance decisions, partnering with ML engineering on what to detect and how to prove it works.
• Run discovery with design partners, sit in with security and platform leaders at major enterprises, translate their threat models into concrete requirements, and structure pilot programs with clear success criteria.
• Shape the category, turn a fast-moving, ambiguous problem space (agent security, observability, policy) into a coherent product narrative for customers, partners, and investors.

Required Qualifications

• 5–10 years in product, comfortable operating as an early PM and helping build the function.
• A structured thinker who ships. You think in frameworks and segmentation, but you move from whiteboard to concrete deliverable in a day.
• Customer-obsessed and a truth-teller. You go deep with users, surface uncomfortable realities early, and stay focused on solving the actual problem.
• Calm in ambiguity. You operate without perfect information, set your own priorities, and bring clarity to a fast-moving environment.
• AI-native. You instinctively reach for AI tools to ship better and faster — research, prototyping, analysis, drafting — and you push the team to do the same.
• High ownership. You treat the product as yours and the outcome as your responsibility.

Why Alterion

• Build foundational products for the next generation of AI systems
• Work directly with the founders on product strategy and long-term direction
• Own meaningful, high-impact products from day one
• Join a small, senior team that values depth, judgment, and quality
• Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the opportunity to shape a new category