Principal Product Builder

Axiad•San Jose, CA

2d•$190,000 - $250,000•Remote

About The Position

Axiad is the identity security company building a first-class identity risk and management suite of products. Identity is the rightful center of mass in the cybersecurity space. Axiad Mesh translates identity exposure into prioritized risk across human, machine, and agentic identities, and drives remediation through existing operational systems and the Axiad Conductor. Join us in innovating and building customer value in this challenging and urgent space.

Requirements

Career product manager who outgrew the role with agentic evolution and mastery, shook off its boundaries and took matters into their own hands.
Execute on product direction aggressively.
Speak in artifacts and prototypes, and delivered features.
AI multiplies hands and permeates all aspects of the day.
Domain Identity is the center of gravity: credentials, authentication, human, machine, and trust and risk.
Think constantly about how the world is built on identity and is core to the enterprise function.
Post-quantum literacy: grasp the shape of the problem — crypto agility, algorithm transitions, migration realities — and reason credibly about solution paths.
The agentic evolution of the complete PM discipline, inbound, outbound, UX, from research through interaction design, and beyond.
An active, recent building practice — prototype to pull request — deployed by strategic choice, not by exception or emergency.
AI-native fluency: LLMs, agents, skills, agentic workflows, design and codegen as force multipliers and used more than any other “tool”.
Competitive instinct — read a market, find the wedge, articulate the advantage, and drive it.
Strategic range: equally comfortable in a pull request as a board deck — and equally energized when the best strategic idea in the room isn't yours.
Operate in all three modes, fluidly: free solo, small-pod, or a force multiplier across the teams.
Strategy as a team sport: innovate relentlessly, then drive that innovation into the direction — arguing through the vision, building on others' contributions as readily as your own.
The pull toward building — codebase included — is constant; acting on it is a deliberate, strategic call.
Self-starter to the point of needing restraint.
See beyond every request to the underlying problem — return more value than was asked.
Extreme ownership of outcomes.
Demos over decks.

Nice To Haves

PKI depth is a bonus; reasoning about the space and how it manifests is the bar.

Responsibilities

Own product management as a capability — roadmap, inbound, outbound, and UX.
Drive the flows, the interaction design, the experience.
Innovate constantly through the lens of the vision and drive the integration of that innovation into the strategic direction of the products.
Actively build product — not the rule of the job, but a constant, strategic urgent practice.
Prototypes, UX, working software: pick the moments where making the thing is the highest-leverage move and take them without asking — handing the last mile to the team when that's the right call, carrying it yourself when it isn't.
Challenge legacy processes; Use AI/agents to compress cycle times and automate work that shouldn’t require humans.
Drive outbound: positioning, competitive teardowns, why-we-win narratives.
Drive inbound: discovery, customer interviews, ruthless prioritization.
Push what you learn building and selling back into the shared strategy — a living hypothesis the whole team evolves together.
Prototype what customers can't yet articulate.