VP of Products & Platform - AI/Security

OPSWAT•San Francisco, CA

20h

About The Position

OPSWAT is seeking a VP of Products & Platform to lead the transformation of its foundational platform, MetaDefender Core, Enterprise Shared Services, and Platform Architecture. This role is crucial for establishing File Security as a distinct market category and driving an AI-first operational model across the company. The VP will own the most horizontally impactful technology, influencing how every product in the MetaDefender portfolio ships, deploys, and operates. This is a hands-on strategy role, requiring close collaboration with engineering teams and a deep understanding of enterprise software deployment in complex, regulated environments.

Requirements

15+ years in platform engineering, developer platforms, or infrastructure product management, with 5+ years in senior leadership owning platform strategy.
AI-first product leadership with demonstrated use of AI/agentic systems as a product surface and operating model.
Working fluency in LLM evaluation, agentic design, human-in-the-loop, and AI failure modes.
Customer-deployed software depth, understanding the complexities of on-prem upgrades, air-gapped installs, and enterprise change management.
Architectural fluency across Kubernetes, containerization, IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP), and traditional on-prem.
File Security depth beyond antivirus, understanding the layered discipline of securing the enterprise file ecosystem.
Earned-adoption track record for internal platforms.
Enterprise software acumen including SSO/SAML/OIDC, RBAC, multi-tenancy, audit logging, zero-downtime deployments, and observability.
Strong communication and internal selling skills to align peer PMs, convince engineering leads, and present strategy to executive leadership.
Metrics-driven leadership, defining KPIs for adoption, performance, scalability, and customer impact.
Curiosity, ownership, and bias for action, balancing speed with architectural rigor and resilience.

Nice To Haves

Category creation experience.
Experience growing a platform or product into a named market with its own P&L.
Data pipeline / high-volume processing experience (ETL, iPaaS, RPA, or file-processing systems).
Cybersecurity or critical infrastructure experience, including compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, Common Criteria), regulated deployments, and security-first architecture.
Experience scaling a platform from partial to full adoption across a portfolio.
Experience with open-source / inner-source model contribution frameworks.

Responsibilities

Own the technical vision for MetaDefender Core's evolution, including modular multi-engine orchestration, processing throughput, format coverage, and API extensibility.
Frame MetaDefender Core as the engine of File Security, articulating the need for layered, defense-in-depth file analysis beyond single-engine antivirus.
Drive strategy to serve new file modalities, archives, encrypted containers, firmware, and ML/AI model files.
Ensure Core's architecture enables adjacent products rather than constraining them.
Shape the growth trajectory of Enterprise Shared Services, making adoption a willing choice for product teams.
Own the strategy, developer experience, and adoption outcome for Enterprise Shared Services, which includes installation & deployment, identity & access, configuration & policy, observability, reporting & audit, HA/DR, and zero-downtime scale.
Make agentic capability a native primitive of the platform, exposed to product teams as a service.
Embed AI across the operational surface: triage, configuration, deployment, observability, and customer time-to-value.
Use AI to drive organizational change, accelerating engineering velocity, internal adoption, documentation, and decision speed.
Define where human-in-the-loop is mandatory, design for AI failure modes, and prevent "AI theater."
Treat the platform as a business, owning the narrative, positioning, and ultimately the P&L.
Define and lead the File Security category, establishing OPSWAT as the default answer.
Translate platform capability into enterprise buyer value and pricing leverage.
Audit and roadmap Shared Services adoption, Core architecture, deployment tooling, and AI/agentic surface within the first 3 months.
Establish the platform team as an internal product organization and build relationships with product and engineering leads within 3-6 months.
Drive measurable Shared Services adoption, modernize Core, and establish deployment patterns and agentic workflows within 6-12 months.