Senior Product Manager

Job Title: Senior Product Manager (IC 6)

Censys knows the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Attack Surface Management provides customers with an attacker-centric view of all externally facing internet and cloud to extend visibility, prioritize, and remediate the most critical risk exposures that will actually lead to a breach. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database enables customers with the most accurate and continuously updated attack surfaces. Enterprise security teams leverage Censys to keep pace with the speed of the business and gain an advantage on the rapidly evolving cyber-attack threats.

We are a rapidly growing cyber security startup based in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a 100% fully remote team. Our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives and diverse backgrounds. We welcome healthy debate, constructive conversations, and outside-the-box thinking to ensure we are moving fast, learning things, and iterating quickly. 

Role Summary:

Senior Product Managers at Censys are self-starters with an entrepreneurial spirit who are comfortable with uncertainty and operate with a growth mindset. You have a small ego and are constantly looking for ways to grow. You are always learning and mentoring, knowing that your role is to force multiply those around you. As such, you are constantly adapting to the ever changing market landscape and company scale to ensure product, company, and customer success. You are inquisitive and seek to deeply understand problems before ideating on solutions. You bring everyone along for the journey and able to influence others without authority, using a combination of great communication and storytelling skills. You recognize the team’s contributions before your own. You are data driven and prefer objective facts over subjective anecdotes. You capitalize on downtime to plan for the future. You are a great promoter who is able to help others see why what we’ve built is the best.

In this role, you will be responsible for executing our risk strategy and play an integral role in prioritizing risk workflows and software, device, and network labeling to enable the detection of risks that attackers will exploit. You will also support the evaluation of different data and intelligence sources to facilitate risk prioritization. The threat landscape is constantly changing. There is a tremendous opportunity to make a massive impact in the way organizations secure their attack surface and defend against threats.

Role Responsibilities:

• Understanding and communicating the problem of our users and customers

• Owning your functional area from end to end from discovery to launch to post-launch

• Defining requirements for a solution that delights our users and customers

• Surfacing key insights and patterns to inform the vision, strategy, and product roadmap.

• Communicating product roadmap to external and internal stakeholders 

• Collaborating with User Experience Researchers to conduct qualitative customer interviews, identify challenging customers problems, and validate use cases 

• Defining, sequencing, and prioritizing the product backlog into discrete milestones that enable R&D to continuously develop and deliver incremental customer value on the path to releasing an MVP

• Identifying risks before they become critical blockers by closely working with teams to build a technical understanding of the solution’s limitations 

• Partnering with Product Marketing Manager counterparts to enable Go-To-Market teams  with positioning, messaging, and differentiation

• Setting success metrics and tracking metrics post-launch to guide investment in iterative improvements

• Understanding general business operations, including how customers interact with Censys, to facilitate improvement of key processes to remove bottlenecks and improve productivity

• Building a deep understanding of competitive and emergent solutions to inform gap analysis and product roadmap decisions

Required Qualifications:

• Six (6) or more years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of experience and education.

• Experience developing SaaS applications for cyber security or cloud solutions

• Experience operating in an Agile development environment

• Drive clarity in an area through strong verbal and written communication  

• Effectively influence others to action without formal authority

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience as a security practitioner

• Passionate about cyber security and gaining the attacker’s perspective

• Familiarity with writing fingerprints to determine vendor, product, and versions in the context of vulnerability management

• Familiarity with cloud misconfigurations and risks

• Prior experience in fast paced startup environment where changes happen quickly

Our target salary range for this role is between $134,000 USD and $181,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

We are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, however we are open to hiring this position fully remote, with travel opportunities to meet customers and connect with colleagues.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they feel they meet every qualification. At Censys we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace - so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every listed requirement in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be exactly who we need to fill this role or others! 

We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Censys is an equal opportunity employer.