Director, Product Management- Data Threat Analytics

Director,  Product Management, Data Threat Analytics

Location: Palo Alto, CA

About the Team

The Product Management team at Rubrik drives Rubrik’s vision forward, ensuring we continue to secure the world’s data by delivering on our market-leading platform to address our customers’ most challenging data management & security needs. Our Product Managers are responsible for guiding multidisciplinary teams towards the goal of shipping high-quality products on time. We wear multiple hats throughout the different stages in the product lifecycle and set the vision for our growing family of products. As advocates for both our users and our business, Product Managers balance varied perspectives and empower their teams to do great work.

About the Role:

This role requires a leader who can set a compelling strategy, align diverse teams, and turn complex recovery problems into clear, actionable outcomes.

For this, we are seeking a Director of Product Management -  Data Threat Analytics with a strong hybrid and cloud security background to lead a product area (and PMs) focused on detecting and understanding threats against sensitive data in hybrid  and cloud environments - with recovery as the end goal. This role owns anomaly detection, threat hunting, monitoring, and sensitive data discovery on backed-up data, and will help reimagine cyber recovery for hybrid and modern cloud architectures. 

What You’ll Own:

Product Strategy:  

• Define and own the long-term product vision for data threat analytics anchored in hybrid, and cloud-native environments, and recovery-first outcomes.
• Reimagine how threat signals, anomaly detection, and sensitive data discovery directly inform - blast radius assessment, clean restore point selection and how this feeds into confident cyber recovery workflows 
• Develop a point of view on the evolving hybrid and cloud threat landscape, including ransomware, and misconfigurations - and translate into differentiated product strategy

Execution Excellence:

• Drive end-to-end execution for recovery across matrix organization and own the process from concept validation to GA and customer adoption while holding the upstream teams accountable
• Break-down ambiguous, multi-year product bets into clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and incremental value
• Establish strong product operating rhythms - with tight roadmap discipline and backlog hygiene

People & Org Leadership

• Build, lead and scale a high-performing team of Product Managers
• Coach PMs to think beyond feature delivery toward - problem framing, systems thinking and recovery outcomes.
• Develop PM talent with strong focus on structured thinking and crisp communication, executive-ready storytelling and customer-centric results.
• Foster a culture of high accountability with stakeholders and build teams that move fast, learn, and course-correct.
• Create clarity in a complex org by defining ownership boundaries, decision-making frameworks, and clear interfaces with engineering, snappable PMs, data science and security research. 

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as a cross-functional leader and unifier, aligning product, engineering, data science, security research and go-to-market teams around shared outcomes.  
• Serve as a credible product voice in executive reviews, roadmap discussions, and key customer conversations.
• Enforce strong boundaries on snappable PM teams for persona, and problem definition and learning to leverage teams for their expertise instead of wanting to do it all
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities by driving alignment 
• Serve as a trusted partner to global stakeholders across US, India and Israel, navigating distributed execution and time-zone collaboration effectively

What We’re Looking For:-

Required Experience

• 10-15 years in product management, with 5+ years managing PMs.
• Strong Enterprise PM background
• Experience in one of the following: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), or Cloud Detection & Response (CDR) or DSPM
• Deep understanding of public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), or identity services or SaaS models.
• Experience building analytics-heavy or detection-driven products at scale.

Strong Signals

• Has a strong track record of shipping enterprise products to Global 2000s
• Understands why alert fatigue kills adoption and how to design trusted signals.
• Comfortable discussing cloud cost models, scale tradeoffs, and multi-tenant architectures.

Bonus (Nice to Have)

• Exposure to backup, recovery, or resilience platforms.
• Experience working with data classification, lineage, or access intelligence.
• Familiarity with ransomware or destructive cloud attacks, database vulnerabilities. identity-based attacks or SaaS vulnerabilities

 

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