Principal / Director, Product Management - Code & Container Security

About the role

Own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and business outcomes for Harness Code & Container Security. Lead product strategy across SAST, SCA, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, and AI-assisted remediation. Define security capabilities for modern software development, including AI-generated code security, prompt scanning, skill and tool scanning, and agent security testing. Drive strategy for open-source risk management, dependency governance, software supply chain security, and automated remediation. Develop a deep understanding of the Code Security market and emerging AI-native security approaches to drive product differentiation and long-term strategy. Evaluate how AI coding assistants, LLMs, agents, and autonomous development workflows are changing the way software is built and secured. Partner with engineering and security research teams to deliver innovative security capabilities at scale. Engage directly with enterprise customers to understand security challenges, validate product strategy, and influence roadmap priorities. Collaborate with sales, marketing, customer success, and analyst relations teams to drive adoption, customer value, and market leadership. Define and track key product metrics including adoption, detection quality, remediation effectiveness, developer experience, and revenue growth. Mentor and develop product managers while helping scale the Code Security product organization About you 7-10 years of product management experience in Application Security, DevSecOps, Developer Platforms, or Security Engineering. Deep understanding of SAST, SCA, vulnerability management, secure software development practices, and CI/CD workflows. Strong knowledge of open-source security, dependency management, and software supply chain risks. Experience defining product strategy, executing roadmaps, and delivering measurable business outcomes. Strong understanding of developer workflows and enterprise software development practices. Excellent communication, customer engagement, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively across engineering, research, design, sales, and executive leadership teams.

Requirements

• Experience building or leading Application Security, DevSecOps, or Developer Security products.
• Familiarity with AI security, AI coding assistants, LLM-powered development workflows, or agentic systems.
• Understanding of program analysis, dependency graphs, reachability analysis, exploitability analysis, or automated remediation.
• Technical background in software engineering, security engineering, or developer tooling.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale s

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Additional Information

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code - testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this "outer loop," helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend - enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 26 offices and 27 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery - and we're looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. Position Summary Harness is looking for a Principal / Director of Product Management to lead our Code & Container Security portfolio. This role owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for securing software throughout development, including Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), AI-generated code security, and emerging agent security capabilities. As software development evolves through AI-assisted coding, autonomous workflows, and agentic systems, you will help define the future of Code Security. You will work closely with customers, engineering, security research, and go-to-market teams to build products that help organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate risks across both human-written and AI-generated software

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