Principal Product Builder

Axiad•San Jose, CA

11h•$190,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Axiad is the identity security company building a first-class identity risk and management suite of products. 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.
Execute on product direction aggressively.
Speak in artifacts and prototypes, and delivered features.
AI multiplies hands and permeates all aspects of your day.
More than just an AI-native PM.
Identity is your center of gravity: credentials, authentication, human, machine, and trust and risk.
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.
You're a self-starter to the point of needing restraint.

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 integration of innovation into the strategic direction of the products.
Actively build product — prototypes, UX, working software.
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.
Prototype what customers can't yet articulate.
Operate fluidly: free solo, small-pod, or a force multiplier across the teams.
Innovate relentlessly, then drive that innovation into the direction — arguing through the vision, building on others' contributions as readily as your own.
Act on the pull toward building — codebase included — as a deliberate, strategic call.
See beyond every request to the underlying problem — return more value than was asked.
Take extreme ownership of outcomes.
Demos over decks.