Principal Product Manager, Security

The role

The Principal Product Manager shapes security strategy by working with Security Engineering and product teams. You will manage an independent security roadmap and define the company approach to AI-era security.

What you will do

• Partner with product teams to identify security requirements and threat-model implications.
• Align Security Engineering with product strategy by translating feature-team needs into prioritized work.
• Own an independent security roadmap for platform-level security investments.
• Lead strategy for the AI era including agentic access and non-human identities.
• Balance risk and usability using adoption, support, and telemetry data.
• Represent 1Password to the security community through research and conferences.
• Coach PMs on security thinking and set standards for security-critical product work.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including significant time on security-critical products or platforms in a SaaS environment.
• Deep, demonstrable knowledge of security fundamentals: cryptography, authentication protocols, identity and access management, zero-knowledge and end-to-end encrypted system design, and threat modelin
• Fluency in the credential and identity landscape, including passkeys, WebAuthn/FIDO, and the standards shaping how people sign in.
• A track record of earning credibility with security engineering teams.
• The ability to read and reason through technical specifications, security audits, and cryptographic design documents.
• Experience making and defending risk-based tradeoffs.
• A history of shipping security features that users actually adopt.
• Experience setting strategy at the platform or infrastructure level.
• Communication that scales from a security research paper to an executive briefing.
• A strong point of view on how the security landscape is shifting.

Nice to have

• Standing in the security community through conference talks, publications, research, open-source work, or standards participation.
• Hands-on experience with AI security: agent identity and authorization, prompt injection, secrets management for automated systems.
• Experience with compliance and certification regimes such as SOC 2, FedRAMP, or FIPS.
• Prior work in vulnerability disclosure, incident response, or threat intelligence.
• Experience running or working closely with a bug bounty program or researcher community.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Dental
• 401k (USA) or RRSP (Canada)
• Generous paid time off
• Equity grant
• Maternity and parental leave top-up programs
• RSU program for most employees
• Retirement matching program
• Free 1Password account
• Paid volunteer days
• Peer-to-peer recognition through Bonusly

Before you apply

• Join live interviews without using AI tools.
• Successful applicants will be required to complete a background check.

About the company

1Password is a cybersecurity company that builds the foundation for a safe, productive digital future. They provide enterprise password management and Unified Access Management to over 180,000 businesses.