[Hiring] Manager, Product Management @Rapid7

Role Description

As a Manager of Product Management, your primary responsibility will be to help shape the future of our cutting-edge platform solutions by guiding team execution and aligning cross-functional strategies. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Directly manage a team of Product Managers with responsibility for coaching, mentoring, and supporting them in scoping work and prioritizing tasks.
• Mentor your PMs and help grow their skills, identify growth areas, set expectations and provide feedback.
• Lead cross-team collaboration with Product, Engineering, and UX for product planning, prioritization, development, launch and ongoing enhancements that balance responsiveness to customer needs with strategic market impact.
• Work with executive leadership, product, and engineering teams to develop product plans aligned with market requirements and opportunities for growth.
• Collaborate with customers and cloud ecosystem partners, leveraging market research to develop functional and technical requirements in partnership with engineering.
• Encourage data-driven product decisions by leveraging utilization metrics, user feedback, and customer partnerships.
• Work with product and marketing leadership to develop content, messaging, and competitive positioning based on solid value propositions.
• Integrate AI into day-to-day product management practices to increase efficiency, insight, and customer value.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management roles with a demonstrated track record of shipping meaningful product in complex or ambiguous environments preferably within Cyber Security or an AI driven SDLC.
• 3+ years experience in product team leadership.
• AI Fluency – Demonstrate the ability to select and use AI appropriately to solve problems, make better decisions, and increase productivity and foster these practices across your team.
• Previous experience in managing engaged and high performing Product Management teams with a track record in developing and mentoring PMs at all levels.
• A customer-first mindset with the ability to drive that throughout your teams, solid understanding of customer needs, and integration of this customer impact into your team’s everyday decision making.
• You hold yourself and your team responsible for driving outcomes and owning both successes and failures.
• You think big but act small, helping your PMs break down massive visions into actionable, high-impact components.
• Establish clear credibility and the ability to build trust fast with engineering, design, data, and senior stakeholders.
• Formulate a strong point of view and clear opinions about what good product looks like, using crisp communication skills to land them and foster commitment from others.
• Display professional resilience and immense comfort working through organizational change, turning restructures or pivots into opportunities to come out sharper and focused forward.
• Make efficient, transparent decisions that resolve roadmap challenges and maintain development momentum.
• Build a strong global network and work across boundaries to deliver sustainable improvements that create business value.
• Embrace difficult conversations, actively listening, asking questions, and checking for understanding to find common ground when driving consensus across disparate product cohorts.
• Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and location.
• Variable/incentive compensation, equity, and benefits (where applicable/eligible).

Company Description

At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what’s possible and drive extraordinary impact. We’re building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.

• Protecting 11,500+ customers against bad actors and threats.
• Continuing to push the envelope in cybersecurity for the past 20 years.
• Committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.