Senior Director, Product Management – Autonomous Remediation Platform (Autonomous RemOps) at Qualys in Foster City

Job description

• Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
• Senior Director, Product Management – Autonomous Remediation Platform (Autonomous RemOps)
• Location: Foster City, CA, USA 3-days’ work from office
• Organization: Product GTM & SME
• Reports To: SVP of Product Management
• Qualys is redefining cybersecurity operations through the Enterprise TruRisk Platform and the industry's first AI-Native Risk Operations Center (ROC). We are seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management to lead the evolution of TruRisk Eliminate into the market's leading Autonomous Remediation Operations (RemOps) Platform.
• This leader will define and execute the strategy for Agentic AI-powered cyber risk reduction, transforming remediation from a manual, ticket-driven process into an autonomous, intelligent, and measurable business workflow.
• You will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for a Next-Gen Autonomous RemOps platform that orchestrates risk elimination across vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, cloud exposures, application risks, identity risks, and emerging AI risks.
• Working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, AI, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, you will build the category-defining platform that enables enterprises to move from "finding risk" to "proving risk reduction." Qualys' ETM platform already positions itself as an AI-powered Risk Operations Center with Agentic AI capabilities; this role will define the execution system that closes the loop.
• Build the industry's first Autonomous RemOps Platform that enables enterprises to:
• Discover remediation opportunities
• Prioritize based on business risk
• Generate optimal remediation plans
• Execute fixes autonomously
• Coordinate cross-functional teams
• Validate outcomes
• Measure and prove cyber risk reduction
• This is not a traditional PM leadership role.
• This leader will define the future of cyber risk reduction.
• Most security vendors stop at visibility.
• Some stop at prioritization.
• Very few can execute remediation.
• The mission of this role is to build the platform that autonomously eliminates cyber risk at enterprise scale and positions Qualys as the leader in the emerging Autonomous RemOps category—creating a natural evolution from VMDR to ETM to a fully autonomous Risk Operations Center.
• "Autonomous RemOps (Remediation Operations): The system of record and system of action for enterprise cyber risk reduction."
• That category has the potential to be materially larger than traditional vulnerability management because it spans IT Operations, SecOps, CloudOps, DevOps, IAM, and AI Security rather than just vulnerability scanning.

Responsibilities

• Product Vision & Strategy - Define the long-term vision for: Autonomous Remediation Operations
• Exposure remediation
• Cloud remediation
• Application remediation
• Identity remediation
• AI risk remediation
• Third-party risk remediation
• Agentic AI Workforce
• Remediation planning
• Root cause analysis
• Risk-to-fix mapping
• Change orchestration
• Ticket generation
• Approval routing
• Execution monitoring
• Validation and rollback
• Enterprise Risk-to-Action Platform
• Risk Identified → Remediation Planned → Fix Executed → Risk Eliminated → Business Impact Measured without requiring manual coordination across dozens of teams.
• Platform Leadership
• TruRisk Eliminate
• Patch Management
• Mitigation
• Isolation
• Autonomous remediation
• Workflow orchestration
• AI-assisted execution
• Cross-tool automation
• Remediation Orchestration Fabric
• Build integrations with various ITSM, CMDB, EPP, EDR, CI/CD and Identity ecosystems tools
• Risk Reduction Analytics
• Agentic AI Innovation
• Remediation Planning Agent
• Best remediation option
• Patch vs mitigation vs isolation
• Business impact
• Change risk
• Execution Agent
• Configuration changes
• Patch deployment
• Script execution
• Cloud remediation actions
• within approved guardrails.
• Verification Agent
• Vulnerability closed
• Exposure eliminated
• Business services unaffected
• Compliance maintained
• Optimization Agent
• Which fixes succeed
• Which teams delay execution
• Which workflows reduce MTTR
• Recent industry research increasingly points toward autonomous discovery-to-remediation workflows governed by strong oversight, validation, and trust frameworks, which aligns with where enterprise security operations are heading.
• Own multi-year product vision and strategy
• Manage product portfolio generating significant ARR
• Lead and mentor team of Product Managers
• Drive roadmap across multiple engineering teams
• Partner with customers, CISOs, CIOs, and IT Operations leaders
• Establish category leadership in Autonomous RemOps
• Drive analyst engagement with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and GigaOm
• Define platform architecture and ecosystem strategy
• Develop business cases and investment proposals
• Influence executive leadership and board-level strategy

Requirements

• Experience
• 15+ years in Enterprise Software Product Management
• 8+ years leading PM organizations
• Cybersecurity or IT Operations background
• Experience building security platforms at scale
• Domain Expertise
• Patch Management, Endpoint Management
• Vulnerability & Exposure Management
• ASM
• Cloud Security
• Identity Security
• Security Operations
• IT Operations
• AI Experience
• Agentic AI systems
• Workflow automation platforms
• AI copilots
• Autonomous operational systems
• Executive Presence
• CISOs
• CIOs
• CTOs
• Board members
• Industry analysts

Skills

Required

• Product Management
• Cybersecurity
• IT Operations
• Enterprise Software
• Security platforms
• Patch Management
• Endpoint Management
• Vulnerability & Exposure Management
• ASM
• Cloud Security
• Identity Security
• Security Operations

Benefits

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• The salary range for this position is $230,000 - $250,000 per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.