Principal Product Manager

Responsibilities Product Execution

• Define and own the multi-year product strategy for GIAC certifications and assessments, aligned to broader organizational goals.
• Identify market opportunities, competitive dynamics, and learner needs to inform product direction.
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and definition through launch and iteration for all certification and assessment products.
• Translate learner, employer, and industry insights into clear product requirements and success metrics.
• Create and maintain the GIAC product roadmap, ensuring it reflects business priorities, learner needs, and industry trends while communicating progress and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.
• Own and manage the product backlog, partnering directly with engineering teams to groom, prioritize, and sequence work that delivers the highest impact.
• Partner with psychometricians, exam developers, and range and lab platform technology teams to ensure certification and assessment products meet rigorous standards for validity, reliability, and fairness.
• Define and monitor KPIs to measure product health and drive continuous improvement.

• Lead without formal authority, aligning and influencing cross-functional teams across curriculum, engineering, marketing, and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Serve as a senior product thought leader, modeling strong product thinking and helping elevate PM practice across the organization.
• Act as a strategic partner and mentor to other product managers on the team, sharing expertise and contributing to a strong product culture.

• Serve as the lead product management authority on the certification and assessment landscape, including industry trends, credentialing standards, and competitor offerings.
• Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders across GIAC business leadership, curriculum, sales, marketing, and product development.
• Engage directly with customers, employers, and the broader cybersecurity community to deepen understanding of market needs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience.
• 10+ years of professional product management experience with an emphasis on building and managing assessment-based products.
• Proven ability to define product roadmaps, prioritize competing demands, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success owning complex product portfolios, ideally in education, credentialing, assessment, or a related field.
• Strong strategic thinking skills, capable of setting direction in ambiguous environments and rallying teams around a clear vision.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, driving alignment and results without direct management authority.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, including experience presenting to senior leadership.
• Deep empathy for learners and a passion for helping people grow professionally.
• Familiarity with the cybersecurity industry or technical training landscape is a strong plus.
• Comfortable working in a virtual organization with some travel. Fluent in English, particularly in written communications.
• Unrestricted authorization to work in the USA; visa sponsorship is not available.

• Experience working with psychometric or assessment design principles.
• Familiarity with NICE, NIST, DoD 8140, and related cybersecurity workforce frameworks.
• Experience working in the cybersecurity industry, ideally within a product role at a security training, certification, or technology organization.
• Background in ed tech, with an understanding of how digital learning platforms, credentialing systems, and assessment tools come together to support learner outcomes.

• Financial Benefits:
  
  Competitive base salary, bonus opportunities, and a 401(k) plan with company match.
• Health & Wellness:
  Robust medical, dental, and vision plans; company-provided short term disability; optional long-term disability, supplemental life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents; voluntary benefits including accident insurance and identity theft protection; fitness and wellness…