Director of Product Management, Security

ClickHouse

• $160K — $200K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS product management, focusing on security products
  • Hands-on knowledge of database security principles
  • Solid understanding of networking security implications
  • In-depth expertise in identity and access management (IAM)
  • Preferred security certifications like CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+
  • Proven program management skills across multiple projects
  • Experience in external product representation to customers and analysts
  • Ability to mentor other PMs without formal authority
  • Strong communication and judgment skills in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

  • Own and communicate the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for security offerings
  • Dive into database security, networking, and IAM to collaborate with engineering
  • Coordinate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ensure product security
  • Translate security requirements into clear user stories for engineering teams
  • Prioritize product backlog by balancing business value, customer risk, and engineering cost
  • Lead go-to-market strategies for new security launches
  • Analyze real-world performance of security features to inform future development
  • Serve as the go-to security expert for internal teams and provide guidance

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work environment
  • Employer contributions to healthcare
  • Stock options for all new hires
  • Generous time off policy in the US and abroad
  • USD $500 for home office setup for remote workers
  • Opportunities for global team gatherings at company offsites
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Director of Product Management to own our security product strategy end to end - the vision, the roadmap, build vs buy decisions. You will set the multi-year investment strategy for our security offerings, go deep with engineering on database security, networking, and identity management. You will be the subject matter expert for other PMs navigating security-adjacent decisions..

Responsibilities
  • Own the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for our security offerings, and make the case for it - internally with engineering and leadership, and externally with customers and the market.
  • Go deep on database security, networking, and identity and access management (IAM) - enough to argue the details with engineering, not just approve what they propose.
  • Partner closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship products that are actually secure, not just marketed that way.
  • Translate complex security requirements into specifications and user stories that engineering can understand.
  • Own backlog prioritization and the trade-offs that come with it, weighing business value, customer risk, and engineering cost.
  • Drive go-to-market for security launches - positioning, sales enablement, documentation.
  • Monitor how security features perform in the real world and use that data, not just instinct, to decide what to build next.
  • Be the security subject-matter expert other teams come to, and provide guidance and coaching to PMs working on security-adjacent problems elsewhere in the org.
  • Represent our security posture and roadmap externally - with top customers, prospects, and analysts when the conversation needs someone who actually understands the tradeoffs.

Qualifications
  • 10+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS, with a significant and sustained focus on security products or features, including experience setting security strategy at an organizational level.
  • Real, hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
  • In-depth knowledge of identity and access management (IAM).
  • Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+) preferred.
  • Solid program management skills: planning, execution, and risk management across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • A track record of representing product externally - with customers, analysts, or at industry events, and translating deep technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
  • Experience guiding or informally mentoring other PMs, even without a formal reporting relationship.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, and the judgment to know when to escalate versus when to just make the call.
  • Comfortable in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where priorities shift and you're expected to bring order to it, not just follow along.
Perks
  • Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
  • Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
  • Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
  • Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
  • A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
  • Global Gatherings - We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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