Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager, AI Platform and Cyber Validation based in the United States.

We are seeking a strategic product leader to shape the future of AI-driven cybersecurity validation and realistic simulation environments.

This role offers the opportunity to define innovative platform capabilities that help organizations build confidence in autonomous cyber technologies.

You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for advanced product portfolios at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, and enterprise infrastructure.

The position requires close collaboration with engineers, researchers, security experts, and customers to transform complex challenges into scalable solutions.

You will influence how organizations evaluate, validate, and deploy next-generation cybersecurity capabilities in increasingly complex digital environments.

This is an opportunity for an experienced product leader to help shape an emerging industry while solving critical security challenges worldwide.

The Principal Product Manager will lead the strategy, development, and evolution of AI-powered cybersecurity validation platforms, ensuring products deliver meaningful value to technical teams, enterprise customers, and security leaders. The role involves:

• Defining and owning the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI platform and cyber validation capabilities.
• Driving the evolution of realistic cybersecurity environments that support AI-native security products, autonomous cyber agents, and advanced cyber operations.
• Translating customer insights, market trends, technical opportunities, and research findings into actionable product strategies.
• Partnering with engineering, UX, cybersecurity experts, customer teams, and executive stakeholders to align priorities and deliver impactful solutions.
• Leading cross-functional initiatives by facilitating decision-making, resolving complex trade-offs, and ensuring teams execute against a unified product vision.
• Designing platform capabilities across areas such as attack simulation, adversary behavior modeling, enterprise environments, cloud services, SaaS ecosystems, automation, and AI-assisted environment generation.
• Defining functional and non-functional requirements that enable engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable products.
• Collaborating with cybersecurity companies, enterprise security teams, government organizations, and industry partners to understand evolving needs and define future solutions.
• Evaluating product investments based on customer value, technical feasibility, business impact, and long-term strategic differentiation.
• Representing product strategy with customers, analysts, and industry stakeholders.
• Driving continuous improvement by incorporating feedback, market intelligence, and emerging technologies into the product roadmap.

The ideal candidate is a highly experienced product leader with strong technical expertise and a background in cybersecurity, AI platforms, infrastructure, or complex enterprise technology products. Candidates should bring:

• 8+ years of experience in product management, technical product leadership, or equivalent experience delivering complex technology products.
• Proven experience managing cybersecurity products, AI/ML platforms, infrastructure platforms, developer platforms, simulation technologies, cloud platforms, or enterprise technical solutions.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to collaborate with senior engineering leaders on architecture, APIs, integrations, scalability, reliability, security, and implementation decisions.
• Experience defining product requirements, success metrics, customer outcomes, and strategic roadmaps for complex systems.
• Strong product judgment with the ability to connect technical investments to customer value, market opportunities, and business objectives.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts including threat actors, adversary behavior, attack simulation, threat emulation, security operations, detection, response, and controls validation.
• Experience working with enterprise customers and understanding complex B2B purchasing processes and stakeholder requirements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex AI, cybersecurity, and platform concepts for diverse audiences.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem‑solving ability, and comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly evolving environments.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, AI development workflows, or data pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, distributed systems, APIs, automation, or developer platforms.
• Experience with cyber ranges, security operations, threat emulation, incident response, red team/blue team workflows, or security…