Principal Product Manager

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.

Why join SimSpace? We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere every day which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

How Do We Work? We believe that people are at the center of everything we do. SimSpace fosters a culture of continuous learning, curiosity, and professional growth. That belief shows up in action: in-house training, internal and external learning platforms, cyber conferences, industry events, and dedicated time for skill development. Our people are empowered to shape their careers - and it shows. Year over year, SimSpace consistently outperforms industry benchmarks in internal mobility, promotions, and total rewards growth.

Who Thrives Here? We are a team of innovators, protectors, and problem-solvers. We believe diversity of thought and experience fuels better solutions, and we’re committed to building teams that reflect the communities we serve. Whether you’re remote or office-based, you’ll collaborate with talented colleagues across departments and time zones, united by the mission to create a safer digital world.

We invite you to apply today!

Summary

As a Principal Product Manager at SimSpace, you will help define the future of cybersecurity and AI readiness. SimSpace provides advanced, realistic cyber ranges as an AI Proving Grounds for mission critical organizations worldwide. This role is strategic in leading the development of our platform to enable organizations to train defenders, evaluate security controls, rehearse missions, test operational resilience, and validate emerging AI and agentic systems under realistic conditions.

AI systems and autonomous agents are rapidly becoming part of how organizations defend, operate, automate, and make decisions. As adoption accelerates, enterprises and government organizations need trusted environments to understand how these systems perform, where they fail, how they behave under adversarial pressure, and whether they can be safely deployed in mission-critical workflows. SimSpace is uniquely positioned to provide the realistic cyber environments, instrumentation, emulation, and validation workflows required to support that transformation.

In this role, you will define and drive platform capabilities that support AI training, testing, evaluation, and validation within realistic cyber environments. The role requires a product leader who can operate at the intersection of AI systems, cybersecurity, enterprise platform architecture, simulation, automation, and customer outcomes. You will partner across engineering, design, cyber subject matter experts, go-to-market teams, and customers to ensure SimSpace products are technically sound, commercially relevant, strategically differentiated, and measurable in the value they deliver.

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for platform capabilities that support AI Proving Grounds, agent validation, cyber tool efficacy, security automation, and realistic cyber training and testing.

• Identify customer, market, and technology trends at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, autonomous agents, cyber ranges, simulation, security operations, and controls validation.

• Prioritize features and initiatives based on customer value, strategic differentiation, business impact, technical feasibility, platform leverage, and long-term product direction.

• Translate ambiguous market needs into clear product opportunities, investment rationale, roadmap sequencing, and measurable success criteria.

• Build alignment across product, engineering, leadership, sales, marketing, customer success, support, and cyberscurity subject matter experts.

• Partner closely with engineering and design teams to develop and deliver high-quality core and cross-application platform capabilities.

• Create and manage initiative- and epic-level requirements, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation that enable engineering teams to deliver against defined outcomes.

• Define functional and non-functional requirements for platform capabilities, including performance, reliability, scalability, security, observability, data quality, extensibility, integration, and operational requirements.

• Shape platform capabilities that may include environment orchestration, scenario execution, AI and agent interfaces, evaluation workflows, telemetry, ground truth, reporting, APIs, infrastructure automation, and customer-facing controls.

• Serve as a credible product partner to senior engineering leaders on architectural tradeoffs, system constraints, technical dependencies, implementation approaches, and delivery risks.

• Manage the product lifecycle from concept through launch and ongoing adoption, ensuring timely delivery and measurable customer impact.

• Partner with cybersecurity subject matter experts to ensure platform capabilities reflect realistic attacks, threat actor behavior, adversary emulation, defender workflows, operational constraints, and controls validation needs.

• Establish product capabilities that help customers connect AI and agent validation to readiness, resilience, risk reduction, and mission outcomes.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to align on product goals, roadmap priorities, technical tradeoffs, and launch plans.

• Communicate product strategy, progress, risks, decisions, and outcomes to senior leadership and other key stakeholders.

• Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, executive discussions, roadmap reviews, and cross-functional planning.

• Resolve prioritization conflicts across customer needs, engineering constraints, business requirements, and long-term platform health.

• Gather and analyze customer feedback, market signals, and competitive insights to inform product decisions.

• Work with customer success, sales, solutions, support, and cyber subject matter experts to understand customer needs, pain points, workflows, and emerging buying patterns.

• Develop a deep understanding of how customers train defenders, validate controls, assess cyber readiness, evaluate security investments, and explore AI or agentic use cases.

• Ensure the product delivers a compelling user experience and meets the needs of technical users, security leaders, operators, and executive buyers.

• Define and monitor key product metrics to measure success and drive continuous improvement.

• Establish measures for platform adoption, workflow completion, evaluation quality, reliability, performance, customer value, and business impact.

• Connect platform investments to outcomes that customers and the business can understand and measure.

• Mentor and guide product managers and cross-functional team members.

• Raise the quality of product thinking, requirements definition, technical discovery, roadmap communication, and outcome measurement across the team.

What Are The Qualifications To Apply?

To be successful as a Principal Product Manager, AI Platform and Cyber Validation, you need:

• Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a proven track record of delivering successful technical products, or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, simulation, security operations, or enterprise technology.

• Demonstrated experience owning cyber products, platform products, infrastructure products, developer platforms, enterprise technical products, AI/ML platforms, cloud platforms, or other complex systems-oriented products.

• Strong technical fluency and the ability to work directly with senior engineering leaders on architecture, platform design, APIs, data flows, integrations, scalability, reliability, security, and implementation tradeoffs.

• Experience defining clear functional and non-functional requirements that enable engineering teams to understand the intended outcome, constraints, customer value, and success criteria.

• Strategic product judgment, including the ability to connect technical platform investments to customer value, market differentiation, business outcomes, and long-term product direction.

• Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts related to attacks, adversary behavior, threat actors, threat emulation, detection, response, controls validation, and security operations.

• Strong understanding of enterprise customer needs, technical buying dynamics, stakeholder management, and product discovery in complex B2B environments.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex platform, AI, and cybersecurity concepts into clear product strategy and customer value.

Preferred But Not Required

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, agent evaluation, GPU/CPU performance considerations, data pipelines, or AI development workflows.

• Experience with platform technologies such as cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, hypervisors, APIs, distributed systems, developer experience, observability, or infrastructure automation.

• Experience with cyber ranges, simulation environments, training platforms, security operations, threat emulation, adversary emulation, red team or blue team workflows, incident response, or controls validation.

• Familiarity with security tools or concepts such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, or Splunk.

• Experience building or scaling products that serve both technical operators and executive decision-makers.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, GCIH, PMP, PMC, or equivalent experience are helpful but not required.

We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:

• Compensation. Base salary range: $215,000 – $250,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions.

• Health & Wellness. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!

• Mental Health Support. Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.

• Financial Well-Being. Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.

• Flexible Time Off. Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members.

• Parental Leave. Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.

• Ownership Opportunities: Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.

• Referral Rewards: Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.

• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals.

• Continuous Learning: Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.

• Social Connections: Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.

• Extra Perks: Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].

SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.

Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.