Director of Product Management, Security

Overview

Director of Product Management for ClickHouse's security offerings owning the end-to-end strategy and roadmap. You will partner with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to ship secure products and translate security needs into actionable specifications. You’ll drive multi-year investment plans, deep-dive on database security, networking, and IAM, and mentor other PMs on security-adjacent work. Externally, you’ll represent the security posture to customers, analysts, and prospects, using data to guide prioritization and GTM efforts.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Healthcare employer contributions
• Equity in the company
• Flexible time off
• USD$500 home office setup
• Global company gatherings

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for security offerings and advocate for it with engineering, leadership, customers, and the market.
• Deep-dive into database security, networking, and IAM to argument requirements and feasible solutions with engineering.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to deliver genuinely secure products.
• Translate complex security requirements into clear specs and user stories for engineering.
• Manage backlog prioritization considering business value, customer risk, and engineering cost.
• Drive go-to-market for security launches, including positioning, sales enablement, and documentation.
• Monitor security feature performance in production and base decisions on data rather than intuition.
• Act as the security SME for other PMs and provide guidance on security-adjacent problems.
• Represent security roadmap externally to top customers, prospects, and analysts.

Key requirements

• 10+ years in product management for B2B SaaS with focus on security products or features and organizational security strategy experience.
• Hands-on experience with database security principles and best practices.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and their security implications.
• In-depth knowledge of IAM.
• Security certifications preferred (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+).
• Solid program management skills across multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Experience representing product externally and translating technical security topics for non-technical audiences.
• Experience mentoring other PMs, even informally.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with good judgment on escalation vs. decision-making.
• Comfort in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with shifting priorities.

• strong communication
• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• database security
• networking security
• identity and access management (IAM)