Staff Product Manager, Rapid Response

Horizon3 is in search of a highly motivated and technically skilled Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy and evolution of NodeZero Rapid Response. This role requires a strong blend of product leadership, cybersecurity expertise, threat intelligence experience, technical depth, and customer empathy to help organizations quickly understand whether emerging vulnerabilities create real, exploitable risk in their environments. The Staff Product Manager for Rapid Response will own the product strategy, roadmap, customer experience, and operating model for NodeZero Rapid Response.

Responsibilities

Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for NodeZero Rapid Response; Establish the end-to-end operating model for Rapid Response, from initial threat signal through research, prioritization, customer relevance analysis, exploit/test development, notification, remediation, retesting, and verification; Set clear ownership, decision rights, service-level expectations, and operating rhythms across teams; Drive standardization and scalability across Rapid Response research, customer communications, integrations, and operational workflows; Establish and grow exploit-intelligence relationships with security vendors, researchers, and intelligence providers; Define the threat intelligence strategy for Rapid Response across vendor advisories, CVEs, CISA KEV, public research, exploit repositories, attacker activity, and other sources; Develop a prioritization framework for determining which vulnerabilities warrant immediate Rapid Response coverage; Partner with vulnerability researchers and attack engineers to assess exploit prerequisites, affected products, mitigations, and production-safety controls; Build capabilities that identify which customers, environments, and assets are potentially affected by an emerging threat; Drive the product, onboarding, and Customer Success motion to get 100% of customers to run EAD and keep discovery current; Drive automation that accelerates exploit and test development; Define and monitor operational metrics such as time from disclosure to threat assessment, alert precision, validation coverage, remediation rates, and retest rates; Track Rapid Response test rates by event, customer, segment, and technology; Own Rapid Response attach-rate analysis and define customer-level triggers for renewals, new ARR, and expansion; Partner with Alliances, Channel, and Marketing to turn Rapid Response intelligence into partner plays, enablement, packaging, and campaigns; Define the measurement funnel from threat event to awareness, notification, test execution, remediation, pipeline influence, retention, and expansion; Own the quality of the Rapid Response user experience and reporting; Define how Rapid Response fits into customer security operations through notifications, APIs, ticketing, SIEM/SOAR, and vulnerability management workflows; Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Channel, and Support to drive launches, enablement, and feedback loops; Engage directly with CISOs, vulnerability management teams, SOC teams, incident responders, security researchers, prospects, and partners

Requirements

7+ years of Product Management experience building deeply technical B2B SaaS products; Significant cybersecurity experience with depth in one or more domains such as vulnerability management, exposure management, offensive security, incident response, SOC operations, attack surface management, endpoint security, or threat detection and response; Threat intelligence experience is required, including hands-on work in or closely with cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, threat research, emerging-threat response, or a closely related discipline; Strong technical understanding of the vulnerability and exploitation lifecycle (CVEs, CISA KEV, vendor advisories, proof-of-concept exploits, exploitation in the wild, affected products and versions, exploit prerequisites, mitigations, and remediation), with enough depth to work directly with vulnerability researchers and attack engineers on safe exploitability validation; Experience translating threat intelligence into actionable customer outcomes rather than simply presenting feeds, scores, or lists of vulnerabilities; Experience building products that combine multiple sources of telemetry, intelligence, and customer context to make high-confidence decisions; Strong product judgment and the ability to make quick decisions when information is incomplete, the threat landscape is changing rapidly, and emerging vulnerabilities require response outside normal business hours; Proven ability to work closely with engineers, designers, researchers, and security practitioners to translate complex technical capabilities into scalable product experiences; Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and data-driven decision-making skills

Benefits

Equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles; Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family; Flexible vacation policy; Generous parental leave; Growth opportunities and career development; Innovative, collaborative culture; Hybrid and remote work models depending on role and location