Senior Product Manager - m/f/d

About

We are an innovative early-stage B2B SaaS startup in the Cybersecurity space, developing autonomous AI agents that help security teams defend against threats.

Since our creation a year ago, we have:

  • Raised €4.5 million in seed funding led by EQT Ventures

  • Been selected to be part of the AI startup program, led by Meta and Hugging Face

  • Been selected to be part of the Microsoft GenAI studio

  • Won the cybersecurity challenge organised by Orange Cyberdefense

  • Named a Future 40 by Station F for 2024

We are looking for an IC Senior Product Manager to join our product and design team, reporting to the head of product. The role is hands-on, focusing on end-to-end ownership of product initiatives, where you'll be great at blending quantitative and qualitative insights and industry trends into problems to solve. This role suits a strong generalist with at least 4-6 years of experience delivering complex solutions, who is resourceful, comfortable with ambiguity, and can work and learn at a start-up pace. We're looking for someone who is energised by the opportunities and challenges we face, and has a bias for action with informed points of view. 

This is an opportunity to join a team where you’ll have significant influence, work on 0-1 product challenges, and contribute to building something exceptional from the ground up.

Job Description

  • Collaborate with engineering and technical experts to understand the unique challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity and AI, translating these into user-focused solutions.

  • Building and managing the roadmap and making prioritization decisions for long-term projects and short-term experiments, particularly those that drive the biggest business impact.

  • Conduct user interviews, research, and feedback sessions to uncover pain points and ensure alignment with user needs.

  • Speak directly with clients and pilot teams to explain ideas, gather feedback, and refine prototypes and solutions, adopting a "good enough to learn" mindset rather than striving for pixel-perfect designs upfront. 

  • Translating customer needs and business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, product specifications, and wireframes.

  • Analyze product performance and usage metrics using tools like SQL and MixPanel to identify issues and opportunities.

  • Define, track, and iterate on success metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of product features and help guide strategic pivots.

  • Stay informed about market trends, competitors, and contribute to our go-to-market strategies.

  • Foster transparent communication across teams, sharing updates, decisions, and challenges proactively to avoid bottlenecks and promote openness.

  • Learn hands-on about the cybersecurity space and building with AI (LLM's).

Preferred Experience

Required skills and experience

  • Proven experience in SaaS product management, particularly with platform-based solutions, where you have taken ownership of an entire feature and delivered it, and evaluated after release if the outcomes were achieved.

  • Strong strategic thinking with the ability to create product goals, prioritize competing demands and opportunities, and align efforts with user needs and business objectives.

  • Familiarity with product frameworks such as JTBD, agile methodologies, and prioritization strategies, blending them into practical solutions when appropriate.

  • Hands-on execution experience in product discovery, design, development, and delivery; working directly with engineers, design, marketing, and sales.

Technical skills

  • Autonomous and proactive, with a problem-solving mindset and ability to work with minimal guidance.

  • Adaptable and resilient, thriving in a dynamic startup environment

  • Strong communicator with empathy, who shares updates, aligns stakeholders, and fosters transparency.

  • You're pragmatic, humble, and understand the value of speed and execution. 

Soft skills

  • Proficiency with productivity tools like Notion, Linear, AirTable, Google Workspace

  • Working knowledge of analytics tools like MixPanel, and able to write SQL for extracting insights and driving decisions.

  • Proficiency with Figma for wireframing and design collaboration.

  • Highly capable in writing and structuring tickets, PRDs, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.

  • Understanding of API's, 3rd party integrations, and software development lifecycles.

  • Be able to learn and discuss technical concepts around cybersecurity, and AI.

Must-haves & nice-to-haves

Must-haves

  • 4-6+ years of demonstrable product experience on SaaS platforms, with end to end ownership of features and outcomes.

  • Fluent in English, French proficiency is a plus (working language is English)

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in cybersecurity.

  • Experience developing products based on LLM AI’s, understanding the constantly evolving nature of the space and the challenges of working with AI.

  • Have worked in an early-stage start-up environment before.

What we value

  • Initiative-takers who explore opportunities and deliver impactful solutions.

  • Being curious, we’re trying to solve a difficult problem in a new space, so asking questions is key.

  • Transparency, we share updates, wins, fails, learnings, and knowledge across the company.

  • Strategic, and systems thinkers who connect the dots and see the bigger picture.

  • Customer-first mindsets that prioritise user value and ROI.

  • Team players who thrive in collaborative, transparent environments.

  • An experimentation mindset, we're making informed bets, learning, and pivoting as needed; trying and failing is part of the journey.

Recruitment Process

  • Introduction call - 30min

  • Hiring manager interview - 1hr

  • Case study and debrief - prep time + 1hr

  • Meet the team - 1hr

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Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: Paris
  • Experience: > 4 years
  • Possible partial remote
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