Director, Product Management, Data Threat AnalyticsLocation: Palo Alto, CAAbout the Role:This role requires a leader who can set a compelling strategy, align diverse teams, and turn complex recovery problems into clear, actionable outcomes.
For this, we are seeking a Director of Product Management - Data Threat Analytics with a strong hybrid and cloud security background to lead a product area (and PMs) focused on detecting and understanding threats against sensitive data in hybrid and cloud environments - with recovery as the end goal. This role owns anomaly detection, threat hunting, monitoring, and sensitive data discovery on backed-up data, and will help reimagine cyber recovery for hybrid and modern cloud architectures.
What You'll Own:Product Strategy: - Define and own the long-term product vision for data threat analytics anchored in hybrid, and cloud-native environments, and recovery-first outcomes.
- Reimagine how threat signals, anomaly detection, and sensitive data discovery directly inform - blast radius assessment, clean restore point selection and how this feeds into confident cyber recovery workflows
- Develop a point of view on the evolving hybrid and cloud threat landscape, including ransomware, and misconfigurations - and translate into differentiated product strategy
Execution Excellence:- Drive end-to-end execution for recovery across matrix organization and own the process from concept validation to GA and customer adoption while holding the upstream teams accountable
- Break-down ambiguous, multi-year product bets into clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and incremental value
- Establish strong product operating rhythms - with tight roadmap discipline and backlog hygiene
People & Org Leadership- Build, lead and scale a high-performing team of Product Managers
- Coach PMs to think beyond feature delivery toward - problem framing, systems thinking and recovery outcomes.
- Develop PM talent with strong focus on structured thinking and crisp communication, executive-ready storytelling and customer-centric results.
- Foster a culture of high accountability with stakeholders and build teams that move fast, learn, and course-correct.
- Create clarity in a complex org by defining ownership boundaries, decision-making frameworks, and clear interfaces with engineering, snappable PMs, data science and security research.
Cross-Functional Leadership- Act as a cross-functional leader and unifier, aligning product, engineering, data science, security research and go-to-market teams around shared outcomes.
- Serve as a credible product voice in executive reviews, roadmap discussions, and key customer conversations.
- Enforce strong boundaries on snappable PM teams for persona, and problem definition and learning to leverage teams for their expertise instead of wanting to do it all
- Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities by driving alignment
- Serve as a trusted partner to global stakeholders across US, India and Israel, navigating distributed execution and time-zone collaboration effectively
What We're Looking For:-Required Experience- 10-15 years in product management, with 5+ years managing PMs.
- Strong Enterprise PM background
- Experience in one of the following: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), or Cloud Detection & Response (CDR) or DSPM
- Deep understanding of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), or identity services or SaaS models.
- Experience building analytics-heavy or detection-driven products at scale.
Strong Signals- Has a strong track record of shipping enterprise products to Global 2000s
- Understands why alert fatigue kills adoption and how to design trusted signals.
- Comfortable discussing cloud cost models, scale tradeoffs, and multi-tenant architectures.
Bonus (Nice to Have)- Exposure to backup, recovery, or resilience platforms.
- Experience working with data classification, lineage, or access intelligence.
- Familiarity with ransomware or destructive cloud attacks, database vulnerabilities. identity-based attacks or SaaS vulnerabilities
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