Manager, Product Management

Are you a Product Management Leader who is passionate about making a measurable impact through building and coaching high performing Product Management teams? As a Manager of Product Management at Rapid7 you will set the prioritization and direction for your team. You will have a customer first mindset and be a strong collaborator and communicator. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about building high performing and engaged Product teams in a culture that supports trying new approaches and continuous learning.
About the Team
The Exposure Command team at Rapid7 exists to help security teams take command of their risk by understanding exposures, prioritizing threats, and taking effective action across hybrid environments. We are building a platform experience that empowers defenders to go from awareness to resolution, seamlessly. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers to solve their hardest problems and simplify how security teams operate at scale. Every decision - from roadmap prioritization to design polish - is driven by customer conversations, real-world use cases, and deep empathy for their goals, challenges, and outcomes.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced product and people leader with a proven track record in leading their teams to deliver new product formulation, development, and launch. The ideal candidate possesses a strong customer-focused mindset and thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while demonstrating excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Specifically, your focus will be to:

• Directly manage a team of Product Managers, with responsibility for coaching, mentoring, and supporting them in scoping work and prioritizing tasks
• Mentor your PMs and help grow their skills, identify growth areas, set expectations and provide feedback
• Manage projects across multiple teams and socialise progress across engineering teams and leadership
• Lead cross-team collaboration with Product, Engineering, and UX for product planning, prioritization, development, launch and on-going enhancements that balance responsiveness to customer needs with strategic market impact.
• Drive internal alignment around Exposure Command platform experiences across product teams and internal stakeholders, ensuring high-quality launches, consistent user experiences, and clear go-to-market messaging
• Relentlessly advocate for our users, ensuring their voice is represented in every product decision, backlog conversation, and roadmap commitment
• Help your team stay deeply connected to customers through regular interviews, feedback loops, shadowing sessions, and ongoing discovery to surface unmet needs
• Use outcome-driven product thinking to define success, measure customer impact through adoption, time to value, and satisfaction scores
• Work with product and marketing leadership to develop content, messaging and competitive positioning based on customer value and real world use cases.

The skills and qualities you'll bring include:

• 7+ years of experience in a blend of product management, roles and 3+ years experience in product team leadership
• Previous experience in managing engaged and high performing Product Management teams with a track record in developing and mentoring PMs at all levels
• A customer-first mindset with the ability to drive that throughout your teams, solid understanding of customer needs, and integration of this customer impact into your team's everyday decision making
• You hold yourself and your team responsible for driving outcomes and owning both successes and failures.
• You think big but act small, helping your PMs break down massive visions into actionable, high-impact components.
• You have successfully led multiple high impact products with a significant (2k+ customers) install base, demonstrating the balance between customer asks and new features.
• You build networks and work across boundaries to create outcomes that drive impact beyond your immediate team.
• You empower your team to make efficient decisions that resolve challenges and enable momentum.
• Healthy curiosity, thirst for knowledge and willingness to get hands-on
• Passion for telling effective stories that focus on impact for technical and non-technical topics
• Internal drive to drive research and keep up to date with competitive and industry trends
• Core Value Embodiment: Embody our core values to foster a culture of excellence that drives meaningful impact and collective success.

We know that the best ideas and solutions come from multi-dimensional teams. That's because these teams reflect a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences. If you are excited about this role and feel your experience can make an impact, please don't be shy - apply today.
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About Rapid7
At Rapid7, our vision is to create a secure digital world for our customers, our industry, and our communities. We do this by harnessing our collective expertise and passion to challenge what's possible and drive extraordinary impact. We're building a dynamic and collaborative workplace where new ideas are welcome.
Protecting 11,000+ customers against bad actors and threats means we're continuing to push the envelope just like we' ve been doing for the past 20 years. If you 're ready to solve some of the toughest challenges in cybersecurity, we're ready to help you take command of your career. Join us.