Senior Director, Product Management – Autonomous Remediation Platform; Autonomous RemOps

Senior Director, Product Management – Autonomous Remediation Platform (Autonomous Rem Ops)

Location:

Foster City, CA, USA;
Organization:
Product GTM & SME;

Reports To:

SVP of Product Management.

Qualys is redefining cybersecurity operations through the Enterprise Tru Risk Platform and the industry's first AI‑Native Risk Operations Center (ROC). We are seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management to lead the evolution of Tru Risk Eliminate into the market’s leading Autonomous Remediation Operations (Rem Ops) Platform.

This leader will define and execute the strategy for Agentic AI‑powered cyber risk reduction, transforming remediation from a manual, ticket‑driven process into an autonomous, intelligent, and measurable business workflow. You will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for a next‑gen Autonomous Rem Ops platform that orchestrates risk elimination across vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, cloud exposures, application risks, identity risks, and emerging AI risks.

• Discover remediation opportunities
• Prioritize based on business risk
• Generate optimal remediation plans
• Execute fixes autonomously
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams
• Validate outcomes
• Measure and prove cyber risk reduction

• Own multi‑year product vision and strategy
• Manage product portfolio generating significant ARR
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers
• Drive roadmap across multiple engineering teams
• Partner with customers, CISOs, CIOs, and IT Operations leaders
• Establish category leadership in Autonomous Rem Ops
• Drive analyst engagement with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and Giga Om
• Define platform architecture and ecosystem strategy
• Develop business cases and investment proposals
• Influence executive leadership and board‑level strategy

• Define the long‑term vision for Autonomous Remediation Operations
• Move beyond vulnerability remediation into exposure, cloud, application, identity, AI, and third‑party risk remediation
• Build an agentic AI workforce to perform remediation planning, root‑cause analysis, risk‑to‑fix mapping, ticket generation, approval routing, execution monitoring, and validation and rollback

Build a system where:
Risk identified – Remediation planned – Fix executed – Risk eliminated – Business impact measured without requiring manual coordination across dozens of teams.

• Lead strategy for Tru Risk Eliminate and expand beyond patch management toward autonomous remediation workflow orchestration, AI‑assisted execution, cross‑tool automation, and remediation orchestration fabric
• Build integrations with ITSM, CMDB, EPP, EDR, CI/CD, and identity ecosystems tools

• Create executive dashboards that answer:
  How much risk was reduced? Which actions delivered the highest impact? Which teams create remediation bottlenecks? What is the predicted future risk posture?

• Partner with AI and Engineering teams to create remediation planning, execution, verification, and optimization agents that autonomously perform configuration changes, patch deployment, script execution, and cloud remediation actions within approved guardrails

• 15+ years in Enterprise Software Product Management
• 8+ years leading PM organizations
• Cybersecurity or IT Operations background
• Experience building security platforms at scale
• Deep expertise in patch management, endpoint management, vulnerability & exposure management, ASM, cloud security, identity security, security operations, IT operations, and AI
• Experience building agentic AI systems, workflow automation platforms, AI copilots, and autonomous operational systems
• Executive presence and ability to influence CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, board members, and industry analysts

Salary range: $230,000 - $250,XXX per year. Final compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and location. Base salary does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. A comprehensive and competitive benefits package is also offered.

Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.