Principal​/Director, Product Management – Code & Container Security

Position Summary

Harness is looking for a Principal / Director of Product Management to lead our Code & Container Security portfolio. This role owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for securing software throughout development, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), AI-generated code security, and emerging agent security capabilities.

As software development evolves through AI-assisted coding, autonomous workflows, and agentic systems, you will help define the future of Code Security. You will work closely with customers, engineering, security research, and go-to-market teams to build products that help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate risks across both human-written and AI-generated software.

• Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes for Harness Code & Container Security.
• Lead product strategy across SAST, SCA, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, and AI-assisted remediation.
• Define security capabilities for modern software development, including AI-generated code security, prompt scanning, skill and tool scanning, and agent security testing.
• Drive strategy for open-source risk management, dependency governance, software supply chain security, and automated remediation.
• Develop a deep understanding of the Code Security market and emerging AI-native security approaches to drive product differentiation and long-term strategy.
• Evaluate how AI coding assistants, LLMs, agents, and autonomous development workflows are changing the way software is built and secured.
• Partner with engineering and security research teams to deliver innovative security capabilities at scale.
• Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand security challenges, validate product strategy, and influence roadmap priorities.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, customer success, and analyst relations teams to drive adoption, customer value, and market leadership.
• Define and track key product metrics including adoption, detection quality, remediation effectiveness, developer experience, and revenue growth.
• Mentor and develop product managers while helping scale the Code Security product organization.

• 7-10 years of product management experience in Application Security, Dev Sec Ops , Developer Platforms, or Security Engineering.
• Deep understanding of SAST, SCA, vulnerability management, secure software development practices, and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong knowledge of open-source security, dependency management, and software supply chain risks.
• Experience defining product strategy, executing roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of developer workflows and enterprise software development practices.
• Excellent communication, customer engagement, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across engineering, research, design, sales, and executive leadership teams.

• Experience building or leading Application Security, Dev Sec Ops , or Developer Security products.
• Familiarity with AI security, AI coding assistants, LLM-powered development workflows, or agentic systems.
• Understanding of program analysis, dependency graphs, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, or automated remediation.
• Technical background in software engineering, security engineering, or developer tooling.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale software platforms and security programs.

• Define the future of Code Security in the age of AI.
• Build products that secure both human-written and AI-generated software.
• Shape the industry's transition from traditional scanners to intelligent security platforms and autonomous remediation.
• Help developers build secure software faster and with greater confidence.

Hybrid from our Mountain View CA office.

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Flexible work schedule
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
• Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
• Monthly internet reimbursement

Salary range: $240,000—$265,000 USD.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.