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Senior Director, Product Management – Autonomous Remediation Platform (Autonomous RemOps)

About the Role

Location: Foster City, CA, USA 3-days’ work from office
Organization: Product GTM & SME
Reports To: SVP of Product Management

Qualys is redefining cybersecurity operations through the Enterprise TruRisk Platform and the industry's first AI-Native Risk Operations Center (ROC). We are seeking a visionary Senior Director of Product Management to lead the evolution of TruRisk Eliminate into the market's leading Autonomous Remediation Operations (RemOps) Platform.

This leader will define and execute the strategy for Agentic AI-powered cyber risk reduction, transforming remediation from a manual, ticket-driven process into an autonomous, intelligent, and measurable business workflow.

You will own the vision, roadmap, and execution for a Next-Gen Autonomous RemOps platform that orchestrates risk elimination across vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, cloud exposures, application risks, identity risks, and emerging AI risks.

Working across Product, Engineering, Data Science, AI, Design, Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, you will build the category-defining platform that enables enterprises to move from "finding risk" to "proving risk reduction." Qualys' ETM platform already positions itself as an AI-powered Risk Operations Center with Agentic AI capabilities; this role will define the execution system that closes the loop.

Mission

Build the industry's first Autonomous RemOps Platform that enables enterprises to:

Discover remediation opportunities
Prioritize based on business risk
Generate optimal remediation plans
Execute fixes autonomously
Coordinate cross-functional teams
Validate outcomes
Measure and prove cyber risk reduction

Why This Role Matters

This is not a traditional PM leadership role.

This leader will define the future of cyber risk reduction.

Most security vendors stop at visibility.

Some stop at prioritization.

Very few can execute remediation.

The mission of this role is to build the platform that autonomously eliminates cyber risk at enterprise scale and positions Qualys as the leader in the emerging Autonomous RemOps category—creating a natural evolution from VMDR to ETM to a fully autonomous Risk Operations Center.

If I were presenting this to Sumedh and the executive team, I would position the category as:

"Autonomous RemOps (Remediation Operations): The system of record and system of action for enterprise cyber risk reduction."

That category has the potential to be materially larger than traditional vulnerability management because it spans IT Operations, SecOps, CloudOps, DevOps, IAM, and AI Security rather than just vulnerability scanning.

What You Will Own

Product Vision & Strategy - Define the long-term vision for: Autonomous Remediation Operations

Move beyond vulnerability remediation into:

Exposure remediation
Cloud remediation
Application remediation
Identity remediation
AI risk remediation
Third-party risk remediation

Agentic AI Workforce

Build AI agents that perform:

Remediation planning
Root cause analysis
Risk-to-fix mapping
Change orchestration
Ticket generation
Approval routing
Execution monitoring
Validation and rollback

Enterprise Risk-to-Action Platform

Create a system where:

Risk Identified → Remediation Planned → Fix Executed → Risk Eliminated → Business Impact Measured without requiring manual coordination across dozens of teams.

Platform Leadership

Lead strategy across:

TruRisk Eliminate

Expand beyond:

Patch Management
Mitigation
Isolation

toward:

Autonomous remediation
Workflow orchestration
AI-assisted execution
Cross-tool automation

Remediation Orchestration Fabric

Build integrations with various ITSM, CMDB, EPP, EDR, CI/CD and Identity ecosystems tools

Risk Reduction Analytics

Create executive dashboards that answer:

How much risk was reduced?
Which actions delivered the highest impact?
Which teams create remediation bottlenecks?
What is the predicted future risk posture?

Agentic AI Innovation

Partner with AI and Engineering teams to create:

Remediation Planning Agent

Determines:

Best remediation option
Patch vs mitigation vs isolation
Business impact
Change risk

Execution Agent

Autonomously performs:

Configuration changes
Patch deployment
Script execution
Cloud remediation actions

within approved guardrails.

Verification Agent

Confirms:

Vulnerability closed
Exposure eliminated
Business services unaffected
Compliance maintained

Optimization Agent

Continuously learns:

Which fixes succeed
Which teams delay execution
Which workflows reduce MTTR

Recent industry research increasingly points toward autonomous discovery-to-remediation workflows governed by strong oversight, validation, and trust frameworks, which aligns with where enterprise security operations are heading.

Responsibilities

Own multi-year product vision and strategy
Manage product portfolio generating significant ARR
Lead and mentor team of Product Managers
Drive roadmap across multiple engineering teams
Partner with customers, CISOs, CIOs, and IT Operations leaders
Establish category leadership in Autonomous RemOps
Drive analyst engagement with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and GigaOm
Define platform architecture and ecosystem strategy
Develop business cases and investment proposals
Influence executive leadership and board-level strategy

Ideal Candidate

Experience

15+ years in Enterprise Software Product Management
8+ years leading PM organizations
Cybersecurity or IT Operations background
Experience building security platforms at scale

Domain Expertise

Deep expertise in one or more:

Patch Management, Endpoint Management
Vulnerability & Exposure Management
ASM
Cloud Security
Identity Security
Security Operations
IT Operations

AI Experience

Experience building:

Agentic AI systems
Workflow automation platforms
AI copilots
Autonomous operational systems

Executive Presence

Ability to influence:

CISOs
CIOs
CTOs
Board members
Industry analysts

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The salary range for this position is $230,000 - $250,XXX per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.

Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.