Senior /Staff Product Manager - AI

The role

You will drive the strategy and evolution of the Tigera platform, focusing on Lynx and Calico. You will shape product direction, contribute to go-to-market, and partner with engineering, sales, marketing, and ecosystem partners.

What you will do

• Own key areas of the product vision and roadmap for flagship initiatives
• Develop competitive positioning for AI agent security and Kubernetes networking markets
• Contribute to go-to-market through sales-led and partner-led motions
• Conduct customer discovery and validation with enterprise accounts
• Execute cross-functionally with engineering on scope and delivery
• Partner with marketing on messaging discipline and campaigns
• Build canonical positioning artifacts and drive messaging consistency

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in product management
• Senior/principal-level ownership of technical infrastructure or security products
• Track record of taking products from vision to GA and revenue
• AI Fluency: extensive knowledge of LLM, MCP, tool-calling, and AI infrastructure, such as LLM Gateway, Inference Gateway, A2A protocol
• Kubernetes and cloud-native networking/security expertise: network policy, microsegmentation, kernel-level enforcement (eBPF), zero-trust identity (OIDC, SPIFFE/SPIRE), and L7/service-mesh policy
• Sharp competitive and positioning instincts
• Enterprise GTM range: comfortable enabling sales, engaging senior technical and security buyers at large enterprises, and driving partner co-selling
• Discovery-driven and evidence-based approach
• Collaborative owner and crisp operator

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Full health benefits
• Vision benefits
• Dental benefits

About the company

Tigera secures AI agents on any Kubernetes platform, from the kernel with eBPF. Tigera created Project Calico, which secures more than 8 million Kubernetes nodes every day.