Principal Product Manager

Job Title:

Principal Product Manager

About Trellix  
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s comprehensive, open, and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Network Security Product Manager who will play a key role in shaping the future of our network security portfolio, working closely with UX, Engineering, and Hardware teams to drive innovative solutions into a unified platform that covers inline and passive detections, forensic analysis, and security analytics.

About the Role

Trellix is redefining cybersecurity with AI-driven threat intelligence and advanced network security solutions (NDR/IPS/IDS/Forensics/NGFW/ZTNA/UEBA/SSE). We empower enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats by integrating Network security solutions and AI-driven automation into a cohesive security ecosystem.

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to drive strategy, roadmap and execution of our next generation security business. You will focus on accelerating IPS/IDS, Threat Detection and Forensics capabilities by embedding AI-native technologies and unifying them into a single cohesive platform.

As a strategic leader, you will own the ”why” and “what” of our network security future, moving from reactive threat mitigation to autonomous, agent-based prevention and cross product integrations. You will work closely with customers, data engineers, software and hardware engineering teams to deliver cutting edge security product features that define the market.

• Unified platform Integration: Drive integration across forensics, IPS/IDS, threat detection and intelligence, creating a seamless user experience that breaks down silos between network and security operations.

• Customer Centric Innovation: Act as a primary interface for key customers and field teams to understand SOC workflows, alert fatigues and threat hunting pain points.

• AI-First Strategy & Roadmap: Own the long term vision for AI powered IPS/IDS and threat detection capabilities within a unified security platform. Prioritize features that leverage automation and AI to address the SOC pain points and reduce the MTTR

• AI-Driven Forensics & Detection: Lead development of advanced detection signals and autonomous investigation agents to identify attack patterns at scale

• Execution Leadership: Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, including ideation, requirements gathering, prototyping, development and go-to-market strategy

• Cross-Functional collaboration: Partner with engineering, research, UX design, and Sales to build best-in-class security products.

• Metrics-Driven Outcomes: Define and monitor KPIs for AI model performance and overall business impact.

About You

• 10+ years of Product Management experience in cybersecurity, with at least 3+ years focused on network security, threat detections, and/or AI/ML products.

• Deep technical understanding of IDS/IPS, forensics, malware analysis and network protocols.

• Familiarity with network security, packet analysis, threat detection, hardware and virtual security.

• Experience in developing integrated security platforms (XDR, SIEM, SASE) is a plus.

• Stay current on hardware networking trends and how they apply to network security architecture.  

• Knowledge of network protocols, security operations (SOC), and incident response workflows. 

• Understanding of how AI/ML can be used to automate most of the redundant workflows and machine learning applications, anomaly detection, LLMs, data pipelines is a plus.

• Technical background with engineering collaboration (software, hardware, or cloud infrastructure). 

• Proven ability to define multi-year roadmap and turn ambiguous market trends into concrete, actionable product requirements. 

• Exception leadership skills, able to influence without authority and communicate complex technical concepts to executive audiences.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Computer, Electronic, Electrical or similar); a MBA is plus.

• 10+ years of product experience in cybersecurity / network security product lines.

• Experience in network software solutions or security automation using Agentic AI or autonomous security systems.

• Familiarity with cloud security architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) are a plus. 

• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP are a plus. 

•  Understanding of compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, GDPR).

Base Pay Range: $190,000 - $250,000. Actual base pay within this range will depend on varying circumstances, including the work location, individual qualifications, company budget and other operational business needs. Compensation may also include annual bonuses and long-term incentives, subject to various metrics and company policy.

Company Benefits and Perks:

We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Retirement Plans

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

• Paid Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

Our Commitment to You:

At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications.

Trellix conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information—such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number—during the interview process.

Trellix also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.