Director, Strategic Product Management

We’re seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Product Management who will lead our software supply chain security strategy. This role requires someone who can understand emerging market and customer needs for securing the software supply chain for open source and other suppliers, and own the product business planning, product life-cycle management, and product plan execution for multiple products in Veracode’s portfolio.

You’ll champion the user journey for developers and security teams who are addressing software supply chain challenges. You'll partner closely with our Product Design team to ensure user-centric thinking drives every decision, while working with our research teams to ensure that customers can navigate the emerging threat landscape with products that truly resonate with security teams, developers, and other stakeholders.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll be in the trenches. If you’re looking for a role where you delegate all the ‘real work,’ this isn’t it. We need someone who leads by doing. 

Your responsibilities 

You will effectively communicate said product vision across functions to drive alignment and ensure delivery of business outcomes. You will serve as the stakeholder proxy to the Engineering team, helping our Agile delivery teams deliver features and functionalities aligned to a product road map. You will work together with other stakeholders to address internal and external workflows of the Veracode solutions, creating a strong user experience. You have excellent customer facing, Go to Market strategy experience, aligning with the Product vision. 

Key Aspects of Role

• Assess the market and competitive landscape to develop an innovative, market differentiating product vision and strategy and that will solve software supply chain security problems for our customers
• Analyze relevant market, competitive, and buying trends to define attainable testing market share, growth, and profitability.
• Develop and own lean canvas, financial model and other key planning artifacts for your product area.
• Personally conduct user interviews, usability sessions, and customer feedback calls  
• Get into our products daily—test features, file bugs, and experience our tools as both a developer and product leader 
• Roll up your sleeves to unblock teams, whether that's clarifying requirements, making quick decisions, or jumping into technical discussions 
• Explore innovative approaches to product management, including leveraging AI where it adds value 
• Partner closely with Product Design to champion user-centric approaches (you're not the designer, but you deeply value and advocate for great product design) 
• Work closely with GTM team to articulate the distinctive value of Veracode’s software supply chain security approach in our go-to-market strategy 
• Partner closely with Eng, Arch to build roadmap and set priorities for team and estimate and size work and structure cross functional teams to align to capacity.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and UX Design to ensure technical feasibility while maintaining experience quality 
• Establish and monitor KPIs for user experience, adoption, satisfaction, and revenue metrics to predict trends and identify early warning signals 
• Use cutting edge tools to analyze qualitative user feedback from senior executives and customers, and quantitative user feedback at scale, to identify patterns, and generate actionable insights faster than traditional methods 
• Oversee the resolution of customer issues.
• Mentor and coach Technical Product Managers on user-centric product development 

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience with minimum 10+ years experience working in high tech, software, or a SaaS provider
• Software Product Management experience
• Strong knowledge of application security
• Understanding of open-source software development practices (bonus points for contributing to projects yourself)
• Working familiarity with common malicious software attack vectors.
• Track record of hands-on product leadership, not just strategic oversight 
• Experience in creating, delivering, and launching a product portfolio offering.
• Able to bring together and influence key partners in engineering, architecture, UX design on product roadmap features and timelines.
• Able to drive (through influence) product line execution to business outcomes (revenue/bookings).
• Able to create financial model for product line, with understanding of business financials and P&L.
• Able to launch new product capabilities, including collateral development, pricing, and packaging. Able to understand competitive threats within a product line and create mitigation plans.
• Excellent customer-facing skills with ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong strategic thinking with ability to balance user needs with business outcomes
• Exceptional communication skills to align diverse stakeholders around experience vision
• Experience in Agile development environments, with modern software delivery concepts (IDE, CI/CD, DevOps, DevSecOps)
• Extensive experience with Cloud Native Technologies and developer tooling ecosystems 

What we offer you:

• Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs. 
• Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
• “Take What You Need” time off policy.
•  Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
• Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
• Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

Compensation Transparency

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Job Grade: Director

Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status