Principal Product Manager; NetSec- AI Firewalls

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Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed.

This model supports real‑time problem‑solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

We are seeking a highly technical and strategic Principal Product Manager to drive the next generation of cloud-delivered network security and AI infrastructure security. In this role, you will define and execute product strategy for managed firewall and network security offerings across major cloud service providers including Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), while expanding into emerging Neo Cloud and AI Factory environments.

You will work at the intersection of next-generation firewalls, cloud networking, managed security services, and AI runtime security. The ideal candidate combines strong technical product management experience with deep knowledge of cloud and network security, and can translate emerging AI infrastructure requirements into scalable products and services.

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for cloud-delivered and managed network security offerings across hyperscalers, Neo Clouds, and AI infrastructure environments.
• Build strong product and technical relationships with Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, OCI, and emerging AI infrastructure providers, translating partner requirements into scalable product capabilities.
• Define product requirements for cloud-native and managed firewall services, including traffic insertion, routing, high availability, elastic scaling, policy distribution, telemetry, lifecycle management, and operational automation.
• Drive security architectures for AI Factories, GPU clusters, Neo Clouds, and AI‑native applications, including north‑south, east‑west, workload‑to‑workload, model, agent, and inference traffic.
• Shape the convergence of network security and AI runtime security, including protection for prompts, responses, APIs, model access, agent communication, and tool interactions.
• Lead customer discovery and design‑partner engagements with enterprises, cloud providers, and AI infrastructure companies to identify emerging requirements and validate product direction.
• Develop clear PRDs, technical requirements, success metrics, and acceptance criteria in close partnership with engineering and architecture teams.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Sales, Business Development, and cloud‑provider teams on positioning, pricing, packaging, marketplace strategy, and go‑to‑market execution.
• Analyze competitive and technology trends across cloud networking, firewall‑as‑a‑service, AI security, GPU infrastructure, and AI networking to identify new product opportunities.
• Use AI‑native development tools to…