Senior / Staff Product Manager

Tigera•San Jose, CA

6d•$200,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Tigera is hiring a Senior / Staff Product Manager to help drive the strategy and evolution of its platform. This senior role spans product strategy through execution, including shaping product direction, contributing to go-to-market efforts, and partnering with engineering, sales, marketing, and ecosystem partners. The role owns high-impact workstreams within flagship initiatives, with Lynx as the primary focus, and contributes to Calico’s evolution as the L3/L4 networking and security layer for AI workloads and agents. The role focuses on Lynx’s kernel and L7-layer control, which discovers, authenticates, authorizes, and governs Kubernetes-native AI agents, as well as Calico’s networking and security capabilities for AI workloads. The product manager will work alongside other product managers and company leadership, taking on additional areas as the business grows. The position is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and is hybrid at Tigera’s San Francisco or San Jose office. The stated salary range is USD $200,000–$240,000, including bonus.

Requirements

At least 8 years of product management experience, including senior- or principal-level ownership of technical infrastructure or security products.
A track record of taking products from vision to general availability and revenue.
Extensive knowledge of LLMs, MCP, tool-calling, and AI infrastructure, such as LLM Gateway, Inference Gateway, and the A2A protocol.
Expertise in Kubernetes and cloud-native networking and security, including network policy, microsegmentation, kernel-level enforcement with eBPF, zero-trust identity with OIDC or SPIFFE/SPIRE, and L7 or service-mesh policy.
Ability to develop competitive positioning artifacts and maintain messaging consistency across an organization.
Enterprise go-to-market experience, including sales enablement, engagement with senior technical and security buyers, and partner co-selling.
A discovery-driven, evidence-based approach, including pressure-testing assumptions through customer interviews and prioritizing by revenue impact.
Collaborative ownership and operational skills, including structured communication, clear ownership, cross-functional partnership, and the ability to turn insights into decision-ready artifacts.

Responsibilities

Own key areas of the product vision and roadmap for Tigera’s flagship initiatives, including high-impact Lynx workstreams such as agent discovery, identity, authorization, runtime enforcement, or observability.
Contribute to the evolution of Calico as the L3/L4 network and security layer for connecting and securing AI workloads and agents.
Develop competitive positioning for Lynx in the emerging AI agent security category and for Calico in the Kubernetes networking and security market.
Contribute to go-to-market efforts across sales-led motions, including sales enablement, platform pitches, and partnership with sales on qualified opportunities.
Support partner-led go-to-market motions with identity, service mesh, platform, and infrastructure partners.
Conduct structured customer interviews with enterprise accounts to validate assumptions before committing engineering resources.
Partner with engineering on scope and delivery, and with marketing on messaging and campaigns.
Create canonical positioning artifacts for owned product areas and promote consistent product descriptions across the organization and in the market.