Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Product Manager role sits in a core SaaS segment where platform breadth and technical depth intersect: cloud security delivered through a mix of customer-deployed components and SaaS services. Vulnerability Management in particular is a high-stakes product area in modern SaaS, because it must translate noisy, rapidly changing signals from cloud and Kubernetes environments into decisions enterprises can act on.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position builds durable product leadership skills around operating at scale, shaping roadmaps that balance security efficacy with usability, and making prioritization frameworks defensible to both technical and executive stakeholders. Work that spans scanning, detection, and exposure management also tends to sharpen product judgment on data quality, false positives, and outcome-oriented metrics, experience that transfers across many enterprise SaaS categories.
The role is best suited to product leaders who enjoy being close to technical architecture while still owning narrative and alignment across functions. It fits professionals who prefer complex domains where customer empathy must be paired with strong systems thinking, and where influencing without direct authority is a consistent part of day-to-day execution.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Senior Product Manager
- Engineering
- Hyderabad, India
- Full Time
- ID: 57-P-IND-26
Description
About Aqua Security
Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container‑based and cloud‑native applications from development to production—accelerating adoption of cloud‑native technologies and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT Security.
Our product ecosystem includes multiple components deployed in customers’ cloud environments, complemented by SaaS services, CI/CD plugins, and cloud‑native integrations. Most components run in containers, are written in Go, and rely heavily on open‑source technologies. Our UI is built with Vue.js. We are primarily a Linux‑focused company, with additional support for Windows and macOS.
We operate in a fast‑paced R&D culture that values experimentation, modern technologies, and a blend of experienced and early‑career engineers who are passionate about building world‑class security products.
About the Position
We are building a next‑generation cloud security platform used at scale across our customer environments. As part of this mission, we are expanding our Vulnerability Management (VM) team responsible for securing cloud, Kubernetes, and containerized infrastructure.
As a Senior Product Manager for Vulnerability Management, you will lead the evolution of Aqua’s scanning, detection, and exposure‑management capabilities. You will shape product vision, define strategy, and guide execution for the systems that detect, analyze, prioritize, and reduce risk in modern cloud‑native environments.
You will influence the future of the VM industry by blending technical depth, strong product instincts, and customer empathy to deliver innovative solutions that help enterprises understand and reduce real risk—not just vulnerability noise.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision
- Define, articulate, and own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Vulnerability Management, aligned with business and customer outcomes.
- Develop a forward‑looking product for how VM evolves across cloud, Kubernetes, serverless, and container ecosystems.
- Analyze and define attack paths and exposure chains that connect vulnerabilities to critical assets (“crown jewels”), enabling intelligent risk‑based prioritization.
Execution & Cross‑Functional Leadership
- Collaborate proactively with engineering, design, architecture, and security research teams to deliver high‑impact capabilities at scale.
- Translate complex technical challenges into clear product requirements and prioritization trade‑offs.
- Partner closely with engineering leadership to solve deep technical problems and ensure high‑quality, on‑time releases.
Business Ownership
- Own the product roadmap narrative and communicate prioritization, rationale, and outcomes across stakeholders.
- Partner with Product Marketing to craft differentiated messaging, positioning, and sales enablement content.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field. with minimum 12+ years experience and 6+ years of product management experience.
- Demonstrated experience building enterprise SaaS, security, cloud, or vulnerability management products.
- Strong cloud‑security knowledge—expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP, including networking, IAM, Kubernetes, and/or serverless.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with engineering teams, executives, and customers.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills; ability to use data to guide decisions.
- Highly self‑driven with a track record of executing in fast‑moving environments.
- Ability to influence, align, and collaborate across functions without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant field.
- Experience with cloud‑native security platforms (CNAPP, CSPM, CIEM, CWPP).
- Prior experience building or launching enterprise vulnerability management solutions.
- Experience working with large‑scale security data, signal quality, false positives, and prioritization frameworks.
