Senior/Staff Product Manager

About the role

This Senior/Staff Product Manager role owns the strategic vision and end-to-end success of a specific product area within Semgrep's Application Security platform. The hire will be responsible for defining and delivering world-class developer-focused product experiences that delight existing customers and unlock new market segments. You will deeply engage with customer problems, shaping the roadmap and influencing decisions that drive long-term business impact. Working cross-functionally, you will partner with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, and Marketing to translate complex user needs into pragmatic, high-quality solutions. Your contributions will directly affect every aspect of what we build and how we operate as a high-growth security company. You will leverage data and customer feedback to iterate quickly, ensuring the product reduces friction for developers while securing their code at every stage. This is an opportunity to build enduring products in an environment that values speed, security, and invention without friction.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Entirely own a product area and its vision and strategy, and be responsible for its success in generating value to users and to the business.
• Be accountable for the commercial success of your product area through defined metrics and business outcomes.
• Engage deeply with customers and prospects to understand users' problems and help shape and prioritize the roadmap accordingly.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing to establish clear positioning and messaging for your product area in the market.
• Partner with Customer Success and Product Marketing to manage product releases and prioritize feedback from go-to-market activities.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Product Design to help ensure product excellence through feasible and user-centric solutions.
• Manage projects across the full life-cycle, from ideation and discovery through execution, launch, and iterative improvement.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to track the success of your product area and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Help shape the culture of the fast-growing product team by mentoring peers and contributing to process improvements.
• Prioritize features and initiatives that reduce false positives and streamline security workflows for AppSec teams.
• Enable security teams to triage significantly fewer false positives by building intelligent, context-aware product capabilities.
• Ensure the product delivers fixes that integrate seamlessly into developer workflows without causing disruption.
• Work with security reviewers to validate product decisions based on real-world findings and emerging threat landscapes.
• Define and communicate a product vision that advances zero false positives as a practical reality for development and security teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of PM experience managing software products from inception through launch and iteration.
• Experience owning a product line end-to-end and being accountable for the product's commercial success.
• Experience building products for engineering personas and understanding their unique workflows and constraints.
• Experience transforming complex user needs into pragmatic product solutions that balance depth with usability.
• Experience at a growth-stage company or the demonstrated ability to iterate quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English for influencing stakeholders and articulating vision.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to drive product outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, validate hypotheses, and measure product impact over time.
• Preferred: prior experience as an engineer or the ability to code, even if rusty, to better collaborate with technical teams.
• Comfortable working with security and development tools to assess workflow impact and integration requirements.
• Willingness to engage directly with customers through interviews, discovery sessions, and feedback loops.
• Commitment to building secure-by-design products that align with Semgrep's mission of securing code as it's written.
• Understanding of application security concepts, including code analysis, supply chain risks, and false positive reduction.
• Openness to feedback and adaptability in a rapidly evolving product and market environment.

Nice to have

• Prior experience contributing to open source security tools or developer platforms.
• Familiarity with industry standards and frameworks for application security testing.
• Background in AI or machine learning applied to code analysis and prioritization of findings.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and how security tools fit into developer workflows.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to enterprise customers such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar.
• Track record of mentoring junior product managers or contributing to product playbooks.

Practical notes

• This role is based in San Francisco and is hybrid; we require a minimum of 2 days a week in our SF office.
• Compensation details are included as a defined salary range for this location.
• Employment is full-time and eligible for equity and benefits as described in the company offering.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the country where the position is located at the time of hire.
• No current sponsorship is indicated for roles in locations where authorization is required.
• Interested candidates should apply only if they intend to commit to the hybrid schedule and location expectations.
• The company reserves the right to update role requirements and compensation bands as market conditions evolve.