VP of Products & Platform

OPSWAT•San Francisco, CA

10d

About The Position

OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life. The Position: VP of Products & Platform Every MetaDefender product runs on a common foundation which is this role’s domain. The VP of Platform will transform it into the definitive substrate that every product team builds on top of it, every customer deploys with confidence, and every enterprise buyer trusts to meet their most demanding requirements. This is a high-impact, build-focused role that directly shapes how every product in the MetaDefender portfolio is designed, deployed, and operated. You’ll own some of the most horizontally influential technology in the company that few platform roles offer this level of visibility and reach. At OPSWAT, product leaders stay deeply connected to technology. You’ll collaborate with peers who engage in code-level discussions, thoughtfully challenge architectural decisions, and take pride in delivering high-quality products.

Requirements

Bring experience beyond pure SaaS, with experience in On-prem or Air-gapped deployment environments and their unique complexities.
Are passionate about building meaningful platform solutions that truly serve both internal product teams and end-user enterprise customers, with strong customer empathy at the core.
Enjoy a hands-on leadership approach, actively contributing to architecture, product specifications, and thoughtful decision-making around trade-offs.
15+ years in platform engineering, developer platforms, or infrastructure product management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role owning platform strategy.
Deep experience building products deployed in customer environments (not purely SaaS). You understand the pain of on-prem upgrades, air-gapped installations, and enterprise change management.
Are passionate about building meaningful platform solutions that truly serve both internal product teams and end-user enterprise customers, with strong customer empathy at the core.
Enjoy a hands-on leadership approach, actively contributing to architecture, product specifications, and thoughtful decision-making around trade-offs.
Architectural fluency across Kubernetes, containerization, IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP), and traditional on-prem server deployments. You don’t need to debug Helm charts, but you must evaluate architectural trade-offs and challenge engineering decisions.
Proven track record of building internal platforms that other teams willingly adopt. You know the difference between mandating adoption and earning it.
Enterprise software acumen: SSO/SAML/OIDC, RBAC, multi-tenancy, audit logging, zero-downtime deployments, observability — you’ve shipped these capabilities and understand what enterprise buyers demand.
Strong communicator and internal seller: Ability to align peer PMs, convince skeptical engineering leads, and present platform strategy to executive leadership.
Metrics-Driven Product Leadership: Define clear KPIs for platform adoption, performance, scalability, and customer impact. Use dashboards and qualitative feedback to prioritize roadmap decisions and hold teams accountable for measurable outcomes.
Curiosity, Ownership, and Bias for Action: Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and proactive ownership, embracing emerging technologies (including AI-driven development) to move quickly while maintaining architectural rigor. Balance speed with resilience to build long-lived platform capabilities trusted by enterprise customers.

Nice To Haves

Background in data pipeline products: ETL, iPaaS, RPA, or file processing systems that handle large-volume, mission-critical workloads.
Cybersecurity or critical infrastructure experience: Understanding compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, Common Criteria), regulated deployments, and security-first architecture.
Experience scaling a platform from partial to full adoption across a multi-product portfolio. You’ve navigated the technical debt, org politics, and prioritization battles this requires.
Open-source or inner-source model experience: Building contribution frameworks that enable distributed teams to extend platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

Own the technical vision for Core’s evolution: modular design for supporting multi-engine orchestration, processing throughput, format coverage, and API extensibility.
Drive the product strategy to serve growing file analysis demands across new modalities — archives, encrypted containers, firmware, ML model files.
Understand Core’s role as the nucleus of the MetaDefender ecosystem and ensure its architecture enables, rather than constraints, adjacent products.
Shape the growth trajectory with a path toward full P&L ownership as the role and platform mature.
Installer & Deployment: Unified installation framework supporting online, offline/airgapped, headless, and automated deployment scenarios.
Configuration & Policy Management: Centralized configuration, policy engines, and tenant-aware settings across the product portfolio.
Identity & Access: SSO, RBAC, SAML/OIDC integration, and enterprise identity federation.
Notifications & Reporting: Shared notification framework, audit logging, scheduled and ad-hoc reporting.
Observability: Telemetry, health monitoring, and operational dashboards.
Scalability & Architecture: Horizontal scaling patterns, zero-downtime upgrades, HA/DR design, and performance benchmarking.
Internal Adoption: Build a developer experience so compelling that peer PMs and their engineering teams actively want to integrate. Evangelize, document, support, and iterate.
UI framework: Build and maintain brand-compatible, language-agnostic UI components so that other teams will not need to reimplement their own
Audit & Roadmap (Months 1–3): Deep-dive into Enterprise Shared Services adoption, Core architecture, and deployment tooling. Deliver a prioritized platform roadmap with clear adoption milestones.
Internal Evangelism (Months 3–6): Establish the platform team as an internal product organization. Build relationships with every product PM and engineering lead. Ship quick wins that demonstrate value and earn trust.
Accelerate Adoption (Months 6–12): Drive measurable Shared Services adoption across the MetaDefender portfolio. Modernize Core’s architecture for next-generation scale. Establish deployment patterns that reduce customer time-to-value.