Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Roadmap & Data-Driven Prioritization
Utilize your hands-on fluency in data analytics (Salesforce, Jira, SQL) to analyze feature impact and prioritize the roadmap based on empirical evidence rather than opinion.
Manage the delicate balance of adding/removing roadmap items through collaboration with Engineering, Marketing, and Product leadership. Transform high-level vision into precise technical requirements and prioritized backlogs.
Collaborate with PMM and Sales to ensure features provide a competitive advantage and are positioned correctly in the market.
Customer Discovery & Solution Design
Lead discovery sessions to identify root pain points. Move beyond solving single-customer issues to designing scalable solutions that benefit the entire user base.
Manage incoming requests and new cases with a systematic approach to review, validation, and communication with stakeholders.
Serve as a technical resource by writing impactful blog posts, leading webinars, and defining best practices that help organizations reduce risk, independent of specific product features.
Empower the Sales team and Strategic Accounts with compelling product pitches, demos, and deep-dive explanations of complex security capabilities.
Required Skills
Minimum 5 years in Product Management
Minimum 3 years specifically in Cybersecurity (VM, EDR, or Threat Intel).
Min 8 yrs years in technical leadership/security engineering with a pivot to Product.
Deep understanding of the threat landscape (Zero-days, CVEs, Exploits). You are familiar with the distinction between a CVE and an exploit and understand how SOC/IT teams function.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (MBA is a plus).
Proficiency in Python and SQL (or similar scripting languages) is required.
Working fluency with AI/LLM tools (e.g., Claude Code, ChatGPT, Copilot) for daily workflows — using them to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and documentation.
Exceptional ability to communicate across multiple time zones and effectively engage stakeholders from field sales to executive leadership.
Preferred Skills :
Researcher-to-Product Transition: We highly prefer candidates with a background in Threat Research who are looking to pivot into Product Management while leveraging their deep security expertise.
Domain Expertise: Strong background in Vulnerability Management (VM), Exposure Management, or Risk Management.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of Product Management experience
- Minimum 3 years of cybersecurity experience in vulnerability management, endpoint detection and response, or threat intelligence
- At least 8 years of technical leadership or security engineering experience with a transition to Product Management
- Deep understanding of the threat landscape, including zero-days, CVEs, exploits, and SOC/IT team functions
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Proficiency in Python and SQL or similar scripting languages
- Working fluency with AI/LLM tools such as Claude Code, ChatGPT, or Copilot
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills across time zones and organizational levels
- MBA
- Background in threat research with interest in transitioning to Product Management
- Strong background in vulnerability, exposure, or risk management
Qualys Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qualys and has not been reviewed or approved by Qualys.
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Affordable Benefits — Benefits costs are widely viewed as low for employees and dependents, with healthcare often described as almost fully paid for. Feedback suggests this affordability helps offset perceptions of lower base pay in some roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are broad, including multiple medical plan options, dental and vision coverage, mental health support, and disability insurance. Benefits are described as “pretty amazing” or “great,” reinforcing perceived quality and coverage depth.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is accessible through company stock plans and an employee stock purchase plan. Compensation packages commonly include equity alongside salary and bonus, which some consider a meaningful part of total rewards.
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What We Do
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com
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