Experience
6 - 11 yrs
Job Location
Bengaluru, India
Vacancy
1
Designation
Principal Product Manager
Job Type
Not specified
Job Description
Harness is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategy and execution for the core Platform, Data Collection, and Integrations that power our API and AI Security portfolio
This role sits at the foundation of our security offerings, owning the systems that enable scalable data ingestion, observability, policy enforcement, and ecosystem connectivity across customer environments
This role sits at the foundation of our security offerings, owning the systems that enable scalable data ingestion, observability, policy enforcement, and ecosystem connectivity across customer environments
You will define and drive the long term platform vision, translating market shifts in API and AI security into durable architectural investments and differentiated capabilities
This includes instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, integration frameworks, data processing, and platform level services that enable protection at scale
This includes instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, integration frameworks, data processing, and platform level services that enable protection at scale
As a senior individual contributor, you will operate across product lines, partnering closely with Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Product Marketing to ensure we'deliver enterprise grade solutions that are scalable, performant, and aligned with real world customer needs
This role requires deep engagement with strategic customers, a strong understanding of security and infrastructure ecosystems, and the ability to turn complex technical challenges into clear product direction
What You Will Do
Own Platform Strategy and Vision
- Define and drive the long term strategy for core platform capabilities including data collection, telemetry, integrations, instrumentation, and shared services across API and AI security
- Align platform investments with the broader DevSecOps platform strategy and company goals
- Identify architectural priorities that unlock scale, performance, and enterprise readiness
Drive Roadmap and Execution
- Build and maintain a multi quarter roadmap that balances innovation, scalability, operational excellence, and customer outcomes
- Partner with Engineering to deliver high quality, reliable, and scalable platform capabilities
- Ensure iterative delivery with tight feedback loops from customers and field teams
- Define and track clear KPIs and success metrics to guide decision making
Customer and Market Leadership
- Engage directly with enterprise customers, including security, platform, and DevOps leaders, to understand deployment models, operational patterns, compliance requirements, and evolving AI driven use cases
- Identify patterns across customer needs and market trends, synthesize insights, and translate them into a clear product strategy
- Represent the platform vision internally and externally, articulating value, differentiation, and best practices
Cross Functional Leadership
- Act as the connective layer between field teams and engineering, ensuring clarity of priorities and strong alignment
- Work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Support to define success criteria for regulated, enterprise environments
- Communicate product direction and value clearly through structured documents and executive ready presentations
Platform Quality and Experience
- Champion scalable architecture, reliability, performance, and usability across platform capabilities
- Ensure integrations and data collection experiences are intuitive, secure, and enterprise ready
- Advocate for strong user experience across platform level workflows
- 8 to 10 plus years of product management experience, with a strong track record owning and shipping infrastructure, platform, or security products at scale
- Deep experience in DevOps, cloud native systems, or security platforms, including telemetry, logging, data pipelines, or instrumentation
- Familiarity with technologies such as OpenTelemetry, observability systems, and large scale data processing architectures
- Direct experience building or managing API security, application security, or adjacent security products
- Demonstrated ability to operate in fast moving, high growth environments and bring structure to ambiguity
- Strong analytical mindset with a data driven approach to decision making
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for executives, customers, and cross functional teams
- Proven ability to influence across functions without formal authority
- Clear history of building products used by developers, platform teams, or security engineering organizations
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