Director of Product Management – Application Security
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 220000 - 250000
Posted on:
Yesterday
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 26 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.
Position Summary
We are hiring a Director of Product Management to lead key parts of our Application Security (AppSec) platform with a focus on DevSecOps-integrated security AST ASPM and AI-driven AppSec workflows.
This is a leadership role with ownership of the Security Testing Orchestration (STO) module including end-to-end business ownership (vision strategy and P&L) and also requires managing SAST and SCA through a team of product managers. You will define how security is orchestrated prioritized and remediated across the SDLC for global enterprise customers.About the role
Own the vision strategy roadmap and P&L for STO and aligned AppSec capabilities.
Own the strategy and roadmap for:
- STO SAST SCA (primary ownership)
- ASPM and vulnerability correlation
- CI/CD-native DevSecOps integrations
- AI-powered / agentic AppSec workflows
Define end-to-end AppSec workflows across the SDLC.
Partner with engineering to deliver scalable platform capabilities.
Design AI-assisted experiences (prioritization remediation guardrails).
Manage and mentor product managers across SAST and SCA.
Work closely with GTM teams (sales marketing customer success) to drive product positioning adoption and revenue growth.
Engage directly with customers to shape a roadmap improve adoption and ensure business impact.
Drive competitive positioning and track product metrics (adoption revenue coverage signal quality MTTR DX).
About you
1015 years of product management experience in security DevSecOps or developer platforms.
Experience owning product business outcomes including strategy positioning and revenue impact.
Experience managing product managers and driving multi-product execution.
Strong understanding of:
- AST (SAST SCA DAST)
- CI/CD and developer workflows
- Vulnerability management / ASPM
Familiarity with AI/LLM-driven workflows.
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across product engineering and GTM teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building AppSec or DevSecOps platforms at scale.
Familiarity with SBOMs dependency graphs and risk prioritization.
Exposure to AI governance or automated remediation.
Background in engineering security or DevOps.
Cloud-native experience.
Work Location
Mountain view CA
What you will have at Harness
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Flexible work schedule
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
- Monthly quarterly and annual social and team building events
- Monthly internet reimbursement
Pay transparency
$220000 - $250000 USD
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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About Company
Enhance DevOps with AI-driven CI/CD, feature flags, chaos engineering, and cloud cost management to secure & streamline software delivery.
