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Senior Director, Product Management - Autonomous Remediation Platform (Autonomous RemOps)
About the Role
Location: Foster City, CA, USA 3-days' work from office
Organization: Product GTM & SME
Reports To: SVP of Product Management
Qualys is redefining cybersecurity operations through the Enterprise TruRisk Platform and the industry's first AI-Native Risk Operations Center (ROC). We are seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management to lead the evolution of TruRisk Eliminate into the market's leading Autonomous Remediation Operations (RemOps) Platform.
This leader will define and execute the strategy for Agentic AI-powered cyber risk reduction, transforming remediation from a manual, ticket-driven process into an autonomous, intelligent, and measurable business workflow.
You will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for a Next-Gen Autonomous RemOps platform that orchestrates risk elimination across vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, cloud exposures, application risks, identity risks, and emerging AI risks.
Working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, AI, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, you will build the category-defining platform that enables enterprises to move from "finding risk" to "proving risk reduction." Qualys' ETM platform already positions itself as an AI-powered Risk Operations Center with Agentic AI capabilities; this role will define the execution system that closes the loop.
Mission
Build the industry's first Autonomous RemOps Platform that enables enterprises to:
Why This Role Matters
This is not a traditional PM leadership role.
This leader will define the future of cyber risk reduction.
Most security vendors stop at visibility.
Some stop at prioritization.
Very few can execute remediation.
The mission of this role is to build the platform that autonomously eliminates cyber risk at enterprise scale and positions Qualys as the leader in the emerging Autonomous RemOps category-creating a natural evolution from VMDR to ETM to a fully autonomous Risk Operations Center.
If I were presenting this to Sumedh and the executive team, I would position the category as:
"Autonomous RemOps (Remediation Operations): The system of record and system of action for enterprise cyber risk reduction."
That category has the potential to be materially larger than traditional vulnerability management because it spans IT Operations, SecOps, CloudOps, DevOps, IAM, and AI Security rather than just vulnerability scanning.
What You Will Own
Product Vision & Strategy - Define the long-term vision for: Autonomous Remediation Operations
Move beyond vulnerability remediation into:
Agentic AI Workforce
Build AI agents that perform:
Enterprise Risk-to-Action Platform
Create a system where:
Risk Identified Remediation Planned Fix Executed Risk Eliminated Business Impact Measured without requiring manual coordination across dozens of teams.
Platform Leadership
Lead strategy across:
TruRisk Eliminate
Expand beyond:
toward:
Remediation Orchestration Fabric
Build integrations with various ITSM, CMDB, EPP, EDR, CI/CD and Identity ecosystems tools
Risk Reduction Analytics
Create executive dashboards that answer:
Agentic AI Innovation
Partner with AI and Engineering teams to create:
Remediation Planning Agent
Determines:
Execution Agent
Autonomously performs:
within approved guardrails.
Verification Agent
Confirms:
Optimization Agent
Continuously learns:
Recent industry research increasingly points toward autonomous discovery-to-remediation workflows governed by strong oversight, validation, and trust frameworks, which aligns with where enterprise security operations are heading.
Responsibilities
Ideal Candidate
Experience
Domain Expertise
Deep expertise in one or more:
AI Experience
Experience building:
Executive Presence
Ability to influence:
The salary range for this position is $230,000 - $250,XXX per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Qualys, Inc., is the pioneer and leading provider of cloud security and compliance solutions with over 8,800 customers in more than 100 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. The Qualys Cloud Platform and integrated suite of solutions helps organizations simplify security operations and lower the cost of compliance by delivering critical security intelligence on demand and automating the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999, Qualys has established strategic partnerships with leading managed service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Dell SecureWorks, Fujitsu, HCL Comnet, Infosys, Optiv, NTT, Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
Qualys is always looking for great talent. For career opportunities, please see http://www.qualys.com/careers