Product Owner Lead

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Job Summary
The Product Owner Lead is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and driving the roadmap for an AI-driven code vulnerability detection and reporting product. This role owns the product vision, strategy, roadmap, backlog, and prioritization while balancing security risk, business value, regulatory requirements, operational stability, cost, and engineering capacity.
The Product Owner Lead partners with Information Security, Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and other stakeholders to translate business and technical needs into actionable product capabilities and measurable outcomes. The role guides an Agile squad responsible for developing, operating, and continuously improving the product.
Key Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, objectives, roadmap, and success measures.

• Own and prioritize the product backlog based on security risk, business value, regulatory requirements, customer needs, operational priorities, and engineering capacity.

• Translate business, security, technical, and regulatory requirements into Features, Stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes.

• Partner with engineering and security teams to deliver the AI-powered vulnerability scanner, evaluation capabilities, CI/CD integrations, reporting, and operational telemetry.

• Establish and monitor product metrics such as detection effectiveness, precision, recall, coverage, reliability, adoption, cost, and delivery performance.

• Partner with technical teams to define evaluation strategies, regression testing, datasets, and release acceptance criteria for AI/LLM capabilities.

• Ensure changes to models, prompts, agents, detection logic, and integrations are appropriately evaluated, documented, and governed.

• Balance new capabilities with technical debt, defects, reliability, security requirements, and operational improvements.

• Coordinate integrations with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, enterprise reporting, security monitoring, and vulnerability management workflows.

• Engage product consumers and development teams to understand requirements, validate usability, and drive product adoption.

• Provide visibility into roadmap priorities, delivery status, risks, dependencies, product performance, and key decisions.

• Lead and participate in Agile/SAFe planning, backlog refinement, prioritization, demonstrations, retrospectives, and other team ceremonies.

• Communicate product capabilities, limitations, performance, and roadmap decisions to technical teams, leadership, and governance stakeholders.

• Maintain product documentation, operating procedures, control evidence, and other materials required for audit, regulatory, and security compliance.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, information security, software development, or technology delivery.

• Experience managing a technical product through development, implementation, deployment, adoption, and ongoing operation.

• Proven ability to define product strategy, manage roadmaps and backlogs, and prioritize competing objectives.

• Experience translating technical, security, business, and regulatory requirements into actionable Features, Stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Working knowledge of software development lifecycles, Git, CI/CD, APIs, cloud platforms, and production support.

• Understanding of application security, common vulnerability classes, and software security testing.

• General understanding of AI/LLM concepts, including model limitations, prompt/agent behavior, evaluation, and human oversight.

• Ability to interpret product and AI evaluation metrics, including precision, recall, false positives/negatives, reproducibility, and coverage.

• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments.

• Strong communication, analytical, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

• Ability to build alignment and make decisions across technical, security, risk, governance, and business stakeholders without direct authority.

• Ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Product ownership experience in application security, vulnerability management, developer security, cloud security, or AI-enabled products.

• Experience with SAST, SCA, software composition analysis, or vulnerability detection technologies.

• Familiarity with AWS AI services or enterprise LLM platforms.

• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Infrastructure as Code, containers, and cloud-native architectures.

• Experience developing evaluation frameworks or quality measures for AI/probabilistic systems.

• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.

• Experience supporting audit, compliance, model governance, risk assessment, or control requirements.

• Relevant certifications in Product Management, Agile/SAFe, Cloud, AI, or Information Security.

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