Product Manager (For independent contractors)

About our team:

The Product Manager, Geo Data within Marketplace Data & AI will drive customer-centric innovation and continuous improvement across a portfolio of internal Geo products and capabilities, with a particular focus on architecture and capability building. Role

Overview:

The Product Manager Geo Data is deeply committed to solving internal user pain points and identifying opportunities to improve the experience of teams that rely on Geo Data products. They collect and understand qualitative and quantitative data to inform and prioritise product direction, form and test hypotheses, and support the development of scalable technical capabilities that address the long-term needs of security stakeholders.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

The role contributes to the achievement of Enterprise Security’s vision and product strategy through stakeholder alignment, planning and delivery of end-to-end product enhancements. This includes building and maintaining the team backlog, setting objectives and roadmaps, proactively removing blockers through effective stakeholder management, and delivering outcomes on time and to a high standard.

The role involves analysing and distilling customer feedback from a variety of sources into actionable hypotheses, or to uncover unmet needs, validate new solutions or improve existing products. It requires aligning independently with a range of internal and external stakeholders to understand business and cross-domain objectives and translate them into clear product narratives and plans, particularly in vulnerability management and related enterprise security areas.

Responsibilities include requirements gathering, prioritisation and continuous delivery of security across infrastructure platforms and workflows. This may include improving visibility, risk-based prioritisation, remediation automation, reporting and the overall experience of managing security vulnerabilities. The role requires analysing data and designing metrics and KPIs, in order to present findings to stakeholders and make effective product decisions with the results.

Another key focus area will be improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Enterprise Security products and internal processes by identifying opportunities for automation, orchestration and continuous improvement.

Shape product direction

• Develop a clear product vision and roadmap for security products and capabilities.

• Understand customer and user needs, the wider security landscape and business priorities.

• Turn complex problems into focused opportunities, clear priorities and actionable plans.

• Make thoughtful trade-offs between security, usability, technical complexity and delivery effort.

• Define how success will be measured and use evidence to improve the product over time.

Understand users and their needs

• Build strong relationships with the people who use and depend on enterprise security products.

• Understand platform and developer team requirements, and the vital role security plays

  in scaling and stabilising the services they use to build.

• Learn how security work happens in practice, including the challenges teams face when identifying and remediating vulnerabilities.

• Use research, feedback, data and operational insight to identify problems and test assumptions.

• Advocate for experiences that help teams make informed decisions and take effective action.

Deliver valuable products

• Work with Engineering and other partners to turn product opportunities into reliable, scalable solutions.

• Lead prioritisation and maintain a clear, outcome-oriented backlog.

• Coordinate dependencies and communicate progress, risks and decisions clearly.

• Ensure that products are secure, dependable, maintainable and easy to use.

• Support the full product lifecycle, from discovery and delivery through to adoption, improvement and retirement.

Work across Enterprise Security

• Help improve how security risks are identified, prioritised, communicated and addressed.

• Partner with security teams and technology specialists to understand threats, controls and operational needs.

• Stay curious about developments in cybersecurity, cloud technology, automation and artificial intelligence.

• Contribute to a consistent and user-centred approach to security product development.

Build alignment and influence

• Bring together diverse perspectives and create clarity when priorities compete.

• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Influence decisions through sound reasoning, evidence and collaboration.

• Build trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Security and the wider organisation.

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in product management, technical product management.

• Experience working with technical teams and translating user or business needs into product direction and priorities.

• A customer-focused and outcome-oriented approach to product management.

• Strong skills in discovery, prioritisation, roadmap development, delivery and stakeholder management.

• A good understanding of security principles and the challenges involved in managing technology risk.

• Experience in vulnerability management, infrastructure security, application security, security operations or a related area.

• The ability to understand complex technical concepts and make them accessible to different audiences.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and feedback to inform decisions.