Senior Product Manager- Security

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At Cloudera, we empower people to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights. With as much data under management as the hyperscalers, we're the preferred data partner for the top companies in almost every industry.  Powered by the relentless innovation of the open source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for the world’s largest enterprises.

As a Security Product Manager at Cloudera, you will drive critical security initiatives across Cloudera, with a primary focus on compliance, vulnerability management, and public sector security requirements. This role is responsible for defining and delivering security capabilities that enable customers - particularly government and regulated industries—to deploy the Cloudera platform securely and confidently at scale across hybrid and private cloud environments. You will work closely with engineering, security, legal, compliance, and field teams to ensure the Cloudera platform meets evolving security standards, responds effectively to vulnerabilities, and maintains leadership in enterprise and public sector security.

As an ideal candidate, you will have a keen eye for the pain points of platform engineers and data engineers who are tasked with building and operating large scale data pipelines. Along with an innovative mindset to address them. There are millions of things we can build, be the one to ruthlessly prioritize. Then back it up with data, back it up with customer stories, back it up with empathy and back it up with conviction. 

As a Senior Product Manager, you would drive the following but not be limited to  - 

Product Vision & Strategy: 

• Product Direction: Define and evangelize the long-term vision and product strategy for Cloudera Data Services Platform, aligning it with the company's broader strategic goals.

• Feature Specification: Translate high-level visions into product requirements documents (PRDs), user stories, and epics in Jira for Platform feature development. Define the "what" and "why" for the engineering team, emphasizing desired outcomes such as performance, scalability, security, reliability and usability.

• Roadmap Management: Develop and maintain a prioritized product roadmap. Make data-driven decisions on feature priorities, balancing customer needs, market trends, and technical debt.

• Market & Customer Insight: Conduct continuous market research to understand the competitive landscape and identify new opportunities. Serve as the primary conduit for customer feedback through direct engagements with field, customers and partners.
   

Security Strategy & Roadmap 

• Own and execute the security product roadmap for platform-level security initiatives, including FIPS 140-2/140-3 compliance, cryptographic standards, and secure configuration baselines.

• Translate regulatory, customer, and internal security requirements into clear product requirements aligned with Cloudera’s hybrid and private cloud strategy.
   

FIPS & Compliance Ownership

• Lead product efforts related to FIPS certification, including scope definition, dependency alignment, validation planning, and ongoing compliance maintenance.

• Partner with engineering, security architects, and compliance teams to ensure cryptographic modules and platform components meet required standards.

• Serve as the product point of contact for audits, certifications, and customer security assessments related to FIPS and compliance.
   

Vulnerability & CVE Management

• Own the product response and prioritization for security vulnerabilities and CVEs across the platform.

• Work cross-functionally with security engineering, release management, and support to ensure timely mitigation, remediation, and customer communication.

• Define and improve processes for vulnerability tracking, impact assessment, and security advisories.
   

Go-to-Market & Enablement

• Drive successful product launches by collaborating with Marketing, Sales, and Documentation teams. Create compelling messaging and enable both internal teams and customers.

• Define and track KPIs for the Data Service Platform’s success, including adoption and revenue

We are excited if you have…

• Education (Required): Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field.    

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in product management, with significant hands-on experience in distributed data platform, data analytics and/or cloud-native data services.  

• Technical Domain: 

  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes ecosystem

  • Experience with regulated industries and data compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA,  FedRAMP)

  • Hands-on experience with AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher Kubernetes Engine, Upstream Kubernetes

  • Experience managing containerized products delivered via Kubernetes

• Product Skills: Proven ability to write precise technical specifications (PRDs), build use cases/user stories, analyze customer patterns, and simplify complex technical solutions and manage product backlogs effectively. Leverage AI to automate workflows.

• Hybrid Cloud: Experience managing products deployed across both Public Cloud and on-premises Private Cloud.
   

You may also have:

• Familiarity with open-source security, compute & data technologies such as Kubernetes, SSL/TLS, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, OWASP Top 10, FIPS 140-3

What you can expect from us:

• Generous PTO Policy 

• Support work life balance with Unplugged Days

• Flexible WFH Policy 

• Mental & Physical Wellness programs 

• Phone and Internet Reimbursement program 

• Access to Continued Career Development 

• Comprehensive Benefits and Competitive Packages 

• Paid Volunteer Time

• Employee Resource Groups

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