Staff Product Manager AppSec

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs Menlo Ventures IVP Unusual Ventures Citi Ventures and more. As AI accelerates code creation the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code testing deployments application security reliability compliance and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this outer loop helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform.

Over the past year Harness powered over 185M deployments 82M builds 18T flag evaluations 8M security scans 9.1B optimized tests 3T protected API calls and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend enabling customers like United Airlines Morningstar and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75% reduce cloud costs by up to 60% and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency.

With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery and were looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster.

About the Role

We are hiring a Staff Product Manager in India to drive key parts of our Application Security (AppSec) platform with a strong focus on DevSecOps-integrated security ApplicationSecurity Testing (AST) Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) and AI-powered / agentic AppSec workflows.

This is a senior individual contributor role with ownership of platform-level capabilities used by global enterprise customers. You will work closely with engineering teams in India and product security and GTM leaders globally to define how security findings are discovered prioritized and remediatedboth by humans and AI agentsacross the SDLC.

Key Responsibilities

Own the strategy and roadmap for AppSec capabilities including:
- AST (SAST SCA DAST secrets detection)
- ASPM and vulnerability correlation
- CI/CD-native DevSecOps integrations
- AI-powered and agentic AppSec workflows (e.g. automated triagereasoning and remediation)
Define end-to-end AppSec workflows across the SDLC from code and dependencydiscovery to risk prioritization and remediation.
Partner closely with engineering teams in India to deliver scalable secure and high-quality platform capabilities.
Design and evolve AI-assisted AppSec experiences including:
- Context-aware vulnerability prioritization
- AI-generated remediation guidance or PRs.
- Guardrails and governance for AI-driven changes
Collaborate withglobal stakeholders across product sales customer success and security to align roadmap with customer and market needs.
Engage directly withenterprise customers to understand AppSec workflows regulatory requirements and adoption challenges.
Drive competitive analysis across AppSec ASPM and AI-native security vendors to inform differentiation.
Define and trackproduct success metrics including coverage signal quality MTTR developer experience and AI effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

610 years of product management experience with ownership of enterprise security
DevSecOps or developer-focused platforms.
Strong understanding of Application Security and DevSecOps including:
- AST tools (SAST SCA DAST secrets scanning)
- CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows
- ASPM or vulnerability management concepts
Familiarity with AI-powered developer or security tools including LLM-based workflows automation or agentic systems.
Proven ability to translate complex security and technical requirements into clearprioritized product plans.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with experience working across distributed global teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building or scaling AppSec or DevSecOps platforms used by large engineering organizations.
Familiarity with SBOMs dependency graphs vulnerability intelligence and risk prioritization techniques.
Exposure toAI governance policy-as-code or automated remediation systems.
Background in software engineering security engineering or DevOps (strong plus).
Experience with cloud-native and containerized environments.

Why Join Us

Own critical parts of a global AppSec platform from India.
Work on cutting-edge AI-driven AppSec and DevSecOps workflows.
Collaborate with senior product and engineering leaders across geographies.
Build products that meaningfully improve how enterprises secure software at scale.

Harness in the news:

Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code
Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation
How Harness runs 16 startups within a startup at scale Jyoti Bansal
Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare
Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex or national origin.

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