Founding Product Manager

About ProjectDiscovery

ProjectDiscovery is an open-source powered security company with a mission to democratize security. We specialize in detecting new, exploitable vulnerabilities and misconfigurations so they can be remediated  before hackers exploit them. Leveraging one of the largest open-source security communities in the world, we host contributions from some of the sharpest ethical hackers and bug bounty hunters to our 20+ open-source projects. Our projects have earned us over 80k GitHub stars, with tools like Nuclei and httpx standing out as some of the fastest-growing in the world.

We recently expanded our offerings with the launch of ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform, combining our most popular tools into a single, hosted service designed for enterprise use cases. This platform seamlessly integrates asset management, vulnerability detection, cloud security tooling, and unique remediation capabilities to continuously safeguard your external perimeter.

Our tightly-knit, passionate team of ~35 is globally distributed, encouraging members to work from anywhere in the world. With total funding of over $25M, we're poised to revolutionize the application security market and are on the lookout for driven and talented individuals to join our mission.

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We're looking for our first Founding Product Manager and Lead—someone who's an engineer at heart and truly passionate about cybersecurity. You're passionate about turning ideas into reality and deeply understand where the cybersecurity industry needs better product functionality and user experiences.

About the role

• You'll work closely with our co-founder and CEO to shape the product vision.
• Refine and streamline our product roadmap, prioritizing impactful new features.
• Manage multiple product lines and initiatives simultaneously.
• Collaborate closely with marketing and sales teams to align product direction.
• Contribute across all areas, including pricing, design, engineering, QA, and customer support—everything that impacts our users experience.

What you will do:

• Quickly prototype ideas through scripting, wireframing, and coding.
• Maintain a strong focus on UX and design to build intuitive products.
• Engage directly with existing customers, gathering their insights and ideas, and incorporating them into our vision and roadmap.
• You will be the key quality leader; you will own each shipment cycle to meet the standards and experience of the features.
• Dive deep into technical details, creating detailed bug reports and clearly defining new issues.

What you'll bring:

• Deep expertise in cybersecurity.
• Hands-on experience with tools like Nuclei, Metasploit, Nessus, Qualys, and Semgrep.
• You're a builder first—excited by crafting great products rather than managing from a distance.
• Highly technical mindset, with comfort diving into complex cybersecurity problems.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in engineering or product management roles.

Why this role is exciting:

• Your work will directly impact thousands of active users in our cybersecurity community. We have over 100K active users in the world. Our open-source projects are trusted and used by major cybersecurity government agencies worldwide including CISA, NSM.
• Our customers include the most talented security teams at top-tier companies like Elastic, PepsiCo, Playtika, Vercel, AXA, GitLab.

If you're technical, curious, and ready to build something amazing from the ground up, we'd love to talk!

ProjectDiscovery Compensation:

The on-target earnings for this role range from ₹40 Lakhs to ₹60 Lakhs for employees based in India. The band level and salary range are determined based on the interview process, an evaluation of the candidate's education, experience, knowledge, and skills, as well as internal equity and market data alignment.

Working with a Global Team:

Work at ProjectDiscovery is not about working from nine to five; rather, it is about embracing the remote lifestyle that allows for a healthy balance of work and living. We are about getting the work done, not clocking-in and clocking-out, allowing you to incorporate the work into your day instead of squeezing your life around your work. We partner very well across more than 15 time zones on 5 continents, and we are just getting warmed-up in our growth. Overall, there is freedom in being remote, and we embrace that with an equal focus on work and life. 

EEO Disclaimer:

ProjectDiscovery provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.


ADA Disclaimer:

The employee must be able to perform the essential functions of the position satisfactorily and, if requested, reasonable accommodations will be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship.