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About the Role

This is the company's first product hire, partnering directly with the founders and engineering team to define the roadmap, write specs, and ship features for the autonomous threat modeling system. This role is expected to grow into the company's Head of Product as Latent Defense scales.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for Latent Defense's autonomous threat modeling system, partnering directly with the founders and engineering team
• Translate a complex, adversarial domain (attack path modeling, agent orchestration, automated remediation) into clear specs and prioritized backlogs engineers can execute against
• Run customer discovery with security leaders (CISOs, security engineers) to ground the roadmap in what actually reduces risk in their environments
• Define and track the metrics that show whether the product is working, for customers and for the business
• Represent the customer and market perspective in technical tradeoff conversations with engineering
• Build the product function from scratch: process, specs, discovery cadence, and prioritization frameworks
• Partner with the founders on GTM and enterprise deal cycles, translating customer requirements into roadmap commitments
• Be the connective tissue between customers, engineering, and the founders as the company scales

Requirements

• 12+ years as a Product Manager
• 0-to-1 or early-stage startup experience
• Background in complex, technical, or enterprise software
• Cybersecurity, security, dev tools, or AI/ML experience strongly preferred
• Comfortable writing specs and making tradeoffs directly with engineers on a technical, adversarial product surface
• Track record running customer discovery and translating it into a defensible roadmap
• Strong written and verbal communicator, able to translate between technical and business audiences
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity at a small, fast-moving seed-stage company without a defined product process already in place
• Prior experience as a first or founding PM, or otherwise building a product function from scratch (Nice to Have)
• Prior experience at a cybersecurity or security-adjacent company (Nice to Have)
• Technical background (CS degree, some experience in SWE/AI/ML roles) (Nice to Have)
• Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks, LLM-based systems, or MCP-style protocols (Nice to Have)
• Experience selling into or supporting technical enterprise buyers (CISOs, security engineers) (Nice to Have)

Skills

• Product roadmap ownership
• Specification writing
• Backlog prioritization
• Customer discovery
• Metrics definition and tracking
• Technical tradeoff analysis
• Product function development
• Go-to-market strategy
• Enterprise deal support
• Cross-functional communication

Location

• NYC (Nomad, 26th & 6th)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Minimum 3 days/week in office

Experience Level

• 12+ years as a Product Manager
• Early-stage startup experience
• Founding PM experience (Nice to Have)

Education Level

• CS degree (Nice to Have)

Salary/Compensations

• $220,000-$250,000

Benefits

• Ground-floor product leadership role
• Direct partnership with the founders and the founding engineering team
• Clear path to Head of Product
• Top of market health insurance
• Unlimited PTO

About the Company

• Latent Defense is building the world model for cybersecurity, graphing a company's entire system, identifying attack paths, assigning criticality rankings, and providing remediation.
• The team is building an autonomous system that models attack paths, orchestrates agents to validate paths, and remediates vulnerabilities.
• The company is scaling from an early product to an autonomous system for real-world environments.
• Backed by top early-stage investors and operating in stealth mode with serious traction.
• Values product thinkers and engineers who think adversarially, build mental models quickly, and care about the lifecycle of their builds.