Based in Sunnyvale, California at the corporate headquarters, this Director of Product Management position requires five on-site days a week and suits experienced product leaders specializing in enterprise cybersecurity. The role involves shaping breach containment and Zero Trust technologies for large enterprise environments.
Role Overview
Illumio is hiring a Director of Product Management for its headquarters located in Sunnyvale, California. The position requires working on-site five days a week. The role centers on defining and executing product strategy for advanced threat detection, analytics, and workflow capabilities within enterprise security.
Key Responsibilities
Create and manage the strategic vision and multi-year roadmap for advanced security workflows within the Insights platform.
Direct product strategy regarding advanced threat detection and behavioral analysis designed for modern security operations center environments.
Partner with engineering leadership across multiple teams to define requirements, prioritize features, and deliver capabilities through agile development cycles.
Work alongside field teams, customers, and strategic partners to gather operational workflow requirements and confirm product-market fit.
Build the innovation roadmap for analytical models and artificial intelligence or machine learning-assisted features to streamline security investigation and triage.
Lead product planning for platform integrations with ecosystem tools so security operations teams can utilize platform capabilities within current workflows.
Manage competitive positioning against market alternatives and collaborate with Product Marketing on the unified value proposition.
Build and mentor a team of product managers while establishing product management practices as the organization scales.
Requirements
Ten or more years of experience in product management, engineering, sales engineering, or technical pre-sales within enterprise security or networking.
Five or more years of product management experience shipping analytics, detection, or workflow products in the network security or cybersecurity domain.
Three or more years of experience managing and developing product managers.
Domain expertise in network traffic analysis, security analytics, or detection and response, including understanding how security operations center teams investigate and respond to network-based threats.
Experience delivering enterprise software-as-a-service products utilized daily by security practitioners, with demonstrable user adoption and customer retention outcomes.
Experience working with data-intensive security products such as flow analytics, behavioral detection, security information and event management, security orchestration, automation, and response integrations, or threat intelligence platforms.
Utilization of data and analytics, including product usage telemetry, customer engagement metrics, and market research, to inform product decisions.
Capability to operate at strategic and tactical levels, establishing multi-year vision alongside sprint-level prioritization with engineering teams.
Nice to Have
Product management background at a vendor concentrating on network security analytics, security operations, or detection and response capabilities.
Experience building products using network flow data including NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs for security use cases.
Understanding of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies applied to security detection, such as anomaly detection algorithms, graph neural networks, or large language model-based security reasoning.
Background in network forensics, incident response, or security operations.
Experience with Zero Trust architectures, microsegmentation, or network security policy management.
Familiarity with cloud-native data platforms designed for security analytics at scale.
Skills and Tools
NetFlow
sFlow
IPFIX
Virtual Private Cloud Flow Logs
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Graph neural networks
Large language models (LLMs)
Agile development methodologies
Salary and Benefits
The salary range for this position is $267,000 to $320,000.
About the Company
Illumio focuses on ransomware and breach containment, providing platforms that identify and contain threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Recognized as a leader in microsegmentation by Forrester, the company enables Zero Trust for infrastructure, systems, and organizations.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply directly on the official company careers page.
