Senior Director, Product Management - XDR

Arctic Wolf

• $186K — $302K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in Product Management, with 4+ years leading product teams.
  • Deep experience in cybersecurity products, particularly XDR, MDR, EDR, or SIEM.
  • Proven ability to manage complex product areas involving multiple stakeholders.
  • Strong strategic thinking combined with hands-on execution skills.

Responsibilities

  • Own and define the XDR vision, strategy, and roadmap for product execution.
  • Establish XDR as an integrated platform capability rather than just features.
  • Drive positioning of XDR against competitive offerings such as MDR and SIEM.
  • Partner with technical teams for scalable and high-quality detection capabilities.
  • Translate complex security features into user-friendly experiences for analysts.
  • Collaborate with product marketing to enhance product launches and differentiation.
  • Act as a product leader to align stakeholders and manage cross-functional tradeoffs.

Benefits

  • Remote work options available in the U.S. and Canada, as well as hybrid models.
  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation.
  • Chance to lead and build a high-performing product management team.
  • Engagement in a mission-driven organization focused on ending cyber risk.
Full Job Description

Ifyourelooking for meaningful work, smartteammatesand the chance to make a real impact in a high-growth companythatsredefining security operations,Arctic Wolf is the right place for you!


Our mission is simple: End Cyber Risk.Werelooking fora Senior Director of Product Management, XDR to be part of makingthis happen.


LOCATION: This role is open to Remote-United States, Remote-Canada, Hybrid-Eden Prairie-MN-USA, Hybrid-San Antonio-TX-USA, & Hybrid-Waterloo-ON-CAN


About the Role:

TheSenior Director of Product Management, XDRis accountable for defining, delivering, and scaling Arctic WolfsExtended Detection and Response (XDR)product strategy. This role owns theend-to-end product vision, roadmap, and executionfor XDR capabilities that unify telemetry, detections, investigations, and response across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, SaaS, and third-party ecosystems.This role is driving the plans and execution of transposing Arctic Wolfs leading MDR offering into a productized XDR experience.


This leader operates at the intersection ofplatform, detections, integrations, and managed services, ensuring XDR deliversclear customer outcomes, competitive differentiation, and a durable foundation for both MDRled and productled use cases. The Director partners deeply with Engineering, Security Services, Data Platform, AI, Product Marketing, and GTM teams to translate strategy into shipped capabilities that scale operationally and commercially.


Key Objectives:

  • Define and execute acohesive XDR product strategyaligned to Arctic Wolfs mission to end cyber risk and its evolution from MDR to an open, outcome-driven Security Operations platform.
  • Ensuring all aspects of the current MDR product have a path to productization to create a cohesive product offering.
  • Establish XDR as aplatform capability, not a collection of point featuresenabling extensibility, partner integrations, and hybrid delivery models.
  • Over time, build outahigh-performing team of Product Managers, operating with clarity, accountability, and strong execution discipline.

Responsibilities:

XDR Product Strategy & Roadmap

  • Own theXDR vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, covering telemetry ingestion, detections, investigation workflows, response actions,reporting, ai differentiation,and proof-of-value reporting.
  • Define how XDR capabilities support bothmanaged (MDR)andcustomer-managed / hybridconsumption models.
  • Drive clear positioning of XDR relative to MDR, SIEM, EDR, and competitive alternatives.

Detections, Integrations, and Platform Alignment

  • Partner with platform, data, andIDRteams to ensurescalable, high-quality detectionsacross signals, with clear lifecycle management and cost awareness.
  • Own prioritization and outcomes forXDR integrations, ensuring breadth, depth, reliability, and operational readiness in partnership with Services and third-party vendors.
  • Ensure XDR leverages shared platform capabilities (data pipelines, AI, case management, response frameworks) rather than duplicating functionality.

Customer Outcomes & Value Delivery

  • Translate complex security capabilities intointuitive investigator and analyst experiencesthat reduce cognitive load and improve response effectiveness.
  • Partnering with the MDR product leadership, define and operationalizeconsistentproof-of-value metrics(e.g., MTTD, MTTI, MTTR, detection efficacy, integration health) that clearly demonstrate customer impact.
  • Partner with Product Marketing and GTM teams to support launches, enablement, and competitive differentiation.

Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Work closely with Engineering to deliver roadmaps predictably, balancing innovation with quality, scalability, and technical debt management.
  • Collaborate with Security Services to ensure XDR capabilities areoperationally viable, supportable, and aligned with real SOC workflows.
  • Act as a visible product leader across the organization, aligning stakeholders and resolving tradeoffs decisively.

People Leadership & Product Excellence

  • Establish strong product management practices: discovery rigor, outcome-based roadmapping, success metrics, and stakeholder communication.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

Required

  • 10+ years of experience inProduct Management, with 4+ years leading product managers or product teams.
  • Deep experience incybersecurity products, with direct exposure to XDR, MDR, EDR, SIEM, or adjacent security operations domains.
  • Proven ability to leadcomplex, platform-oriented product areaswith multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
  • Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on execution discipline.

Preferred

  • Experience withintegrations-heavy platformsand third-party ecosystems.
  • Familiarity with managed security services and SOC operations.
  • Experience operating in high-growth, enterprise SaaS environments.

What Success Looks Like:

  • XDR is clearly understoodinternally and externallyas acohesive, differentiated product, not a loose bundle of features.
  • Customers see measurable improvements indetection quality, investigation speed, and response effectiveness.
  • Product teams execute predictably, with clear priorities, strong morale, and high trust across Engineering and Services.
  • Arctic Wolfs XDR capabilities materially strengthen competitive win rates and expansion opportunities.


All wolves receive compelling compensation and benefits packages, including:

  • Equity for all employees
  • Flexible time off and paid volunteer days
  • RRSP and 401k match
  • Training and career development programs
  • Comprehensive private benefits plan including medical, mental health, dental, disability, life and AD&D, and value-added services
  • Robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with mental health services
  • Fertility support and paid parental leave

The base salary range for this job family is 186,000 to 302,000 USD annually. This range reflects the base pay the company reasonably expects to offer for this position, aligned to the broader job family base pay structure. Actual base pay may vary based on skills, experience, and location, including job family level. In addition to base pay, Arctic Wolf offers variable incentive compensation, new hire equity grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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