Head of Product

The role

The Head of Product will establish multi-year product strategy and a prioritized roadmap tied to measurable outcomes. This person will own product strategy, packaging, pricing, and the product organization to drive retention, expansion, and win rates.

What you will do

• Establish multi-year product strategy and a prioritized roadmap
• Partner with Finance and Sales on packaging and pricing
• Present product strategy and roadmap progress to the board and investors
• Own detection and finding quality as a product metric
• Partner with security research and threat intelligence to turn threats into capabilities
• Own product requirements for secure-by-design development and certifications
• Own decisions across SaaS, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment
• Define AI product direction and governance
• Own the integration strategy across SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, CI/CD, and cloud platforms
• Run a continuous customer discovery practice

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in product management
• 4+ years leading product teams at a B2B SaaS company selling to enterprise buyers
• Direct experience owning cybersecurity products, or products in a comparably technical domain where the buyer is an engineer or security practitioner
• A track record of shipping platform capabilities and new packages that moved retention, expansion, or deal size
• Comfort going deep with engineering and research on technical trade-offs
• Comfort defending a roadmap to a board or a Fortune 500 CISO
• Hands-on experience shipping AI or ML capabilities into production
• Experience managing products where accuracy and trust are core to the value proposition
• Evidence of building and retaining strong product teams through a growth-stage transition

Nice to have

• Experience selling into regulated industries (healthcare, critical infrastructure, financial services, manufacturing, or government)
• Working knowledge of major security and compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, FedRAMP, or industry-specific regulations)
• Experience with on-premises or air-gapped deployment models
• Experience building integration ecosystems or partner and channel programs
• Experience with analyst relations or category positioning in security
• Exposure to M&A evaluation or post-acquisition product integration
• Experience with usage-based or hybrid pricing models
• Prior experience scaling a company from Series B/C through the next stage of growth

Benefits

• Meaningful equity

About the company

Finite State is a fast-growing series C company with a fully distributed workforce. The company partners with product security teams to create transparency for connected devices and supply chains.