Principal / Director, Product Management – Code & Container Security

Harness•Mountain View, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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 software platforms and security programs.

Responsibilities

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.