Principal Product Manager, AI Platform and Cyber Validation

SimSpace Corporation

6h•$215,000 - $250,000

About The Position

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days. Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity. Autonomous agents are beginning to investigate alerts, hunt threats, operate security tools, orchestrate response actions, and work alongside human analysts. The next generation of cybersecurity won't simply be powered by AI—it will increasingly depend on autonomous systems operating in complex enterprise environments. The challenge facing the industry isn't just building these systems. It's building confidence that they can be trusted. At SimSpace, we've built one of the industry's leading AI Proving Grounds, enabling cybersecurity vendors, Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies, and military organizations to build, test, validate, and operationalize AI-powered cybersecurity capabilities in realistic cyber environments. As Principal Product Manager for Environmental Realism, you'll help define what those environments look like for the next decade. This role helps shape an industry. You'll work directly with the teams building the world's next generation of AI-powered cybersecurity products. Every quarter, you'll sit down with the engineers, researchers, and product leaders defining the future of autonomous cyber operations to understand the challenges they're trying to solve. At the same time, you'll partner with Fortune 500 security teams, government agencies, and military organizations responsible for defending some of the world's most critical infrastructure to understand what they'll require before trusting those technologies in real-world operations. Your job is to turn those insights into the next generation of SimSpace's Environmental Realism platform. That means defining how realistic cyber environments evolve to support the future of agentic cybersecurity—from attack simulation and enterprise user activity to cloud services, SaaS applications, simulated internet infrastructure, and AI-assisted environment generation. The products you define won't simply improve cyber ranges. They'll influence how autonomous cybersecurity systems are built, evaluated, and trusted across the industry.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a proven track record of delivering successful technical products, or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, simulation, security operations, or enterprise technology.
Demonstrated experience owning cyber products, platform products, infrastructure products, developer platforms, enterprise technical products, AI/ML platforms, cloud platforms, or other complex systems-oriented products.
Strong technical fluency and the ability to work directly with senior engineering leaders on architecture, platform design, APIs, data flows, integrations, scalability, reliability, security, and implementation tradeoffs.
Experience defining clear functional and non-functional requirements that enable engineering teams to understand the intended outcome, constraints, customer value, and success criteria.
Strategic product judgment, including the ability to connect technical platform investments to customer value, market differentiation, business outcomes, and long-term product direction.
Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts related to attacks, adversary behavior, threat actors, threat emulation, detection, response, controls validation, and security operations.
Strong understanding of enterprise customer needs, technical buying dynamics, stakeholder management, and product discovery in complex B2B environments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex platform, AI, and cybersecurity concepts into clear product strategy and customer value.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, agent evaluation, GPU/CPU performance considerations, data pipelines, or AI development workflows.
Experience with platform technologies such as cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, hypervisors, APIs, distributed systems, developer experience, observability, or infrastructure automation.
Experience with cyber ranges, simulation environments, training platforms, security operations, threat emulation, adversary emulation, red team or blue team workflows, incident response, or controls validation.
Familiarity with security tools or concepts such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, or Splunk.
Experience building or scaling products that serve both technical operators and executive decision-makers.
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, GCIH, PMP, PMC, or equivalent experience are helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one of SimSpace's most strategic product portfolios.
Determine how Environmental Realism evolves to support emerging AI-native security products, autonomous cyber agents, and increasingly sophisticated cyber operations.
Balance customer needs, technical innovation, platform scalability, and long-term strategic differentiation.
Serve as the cross-functional leader for Environmental Realism, bringing together engineering, UX, cyber experts, range content teams, customer-facing organizations, and executive leadership around a common strategy. Drive alignment, facilitate difficult prioritization decisions, and ensure multiple teams execute as a coordinated portfolio rather than independent initiatives.
Partner directly with cybersecurity companies building the next generation of AI-native security products.
Partner directly with enterprise security organizations adopting autonomous cyber capabilities.
Partner directly with government agencies and military organizations preparing for the future of AI-enabled cyber operations.
Partner directly with internal cyber experts, researchers, and engineers advancing the state of the art in cyber simulation.
Guide the evolution of capabilities including attack simulation and adversary behavior, user activity and traffic generation, enterprise networks, operating systems, and application ecosystems, simulated cloud, SaaS, and internet services, reusable cyber environments, AI-assisted environment creation, and environmental automation and orchestration.
Translate conversations with customers, partners, researchers, and engineering into product strategy and roadmap investments.
Partner closely with engineering and UX to deliver platform capabilities that scale across every SimSpace solution while creating meaningful competitive advantage.
Represent SimSpace's Environmental Realism strategy with customers, analysts, and industry partners.

Benefits

Base salary range: $215,000 – $250,000
Annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
Savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
Company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
Unlimited vacation
Dedicated health & wellness days.
Paid leave plans for parental leave.
Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants
Employee referral program ($1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire)
Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts
LinkedIn Learning membership
Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
Legal plan coverage
Pet insurance
Wellness reimbursements