Principal Platform Product Manager

Role Overview

• Define and drive the long-term roadmap for the Data Security Cloud platform in partnership with peer Product Managers and the Platform Product Lead.
• Improve customer onboarding, time to value, and deliver high quality, consistent experience across Forcepoint services.
• Translate business strategy, customer feedback, and regulatory requirements into prioritized platform initiatives.
• Establish and measure key platform success metrics, including SLAs, availability, UX heuristics, and compliance readiness.
• Apply a Lean Product mindset to deliver common platform services that accelerate time-to-market for Forcepoint products.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering teams using Agile and scaled Agile development processes to ensure the platform supports resilience, uptime, performance, and global scale.
• Work with Engineering leadership to align on architecture, sequencing, capacity planning, and sprint level commitments.
• Champion adoption of platform capabilities across the product portfolio to increase consistency and reduce duplication.
• Define platform level capabilities that enable safe, compliant, privacy preserving AI assisted workflows across Forcepoint products.
• Own platform requirements for identity, data sovereignty, privacy, and regulatory alignment.
• Anticipate evolving product needs and AI regulatory landscapes, translating them into scalable, reusable platform components rather than one off solutions.
• Partner with Legal and PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) to ensure platform design aligns with contractual, regulatory, security, and ethical AI standards.
• Act as a senior product leader and trusted advisor to Engineering, Operations, Sales, and executive stakeholders.
• Drive cross functional alignment and influence architectural, roadmap, and investment decisions without relying on direct authority.
• Represent the platform strategy in executive forums, customer conversations, roadmap reviews, and internal planning sessions.
• Communicate platform strategy, roadmap, trade offs, and dependencies clearly to executives, engineering teams, and customer facing organizations.
• Lead platform roadmap reviews, executive briefings, risk assessments, and cross product dependency discussions.
• Support field, partner, and customer conversations related to identity, scalability, reporting, and platform AI capabilities.

Requirements

• Proven experience in product management, including senior responsibility for platform, cloud or infrastructure products.
• Demonstrated experience working closely with engineering teams in Agile and scaled Agile (SAFe style) environments, including backlog refinement, PI planning, and iterative delivery.
• Strong understanding of product management fundamentals: PRDs, competitive analysis, prioritization frameworks, market fit, and go-to-market planning.
• Business savvy with strong technical acumen and analytical skills.
• Proven experience owning highly available, globally distributed cloud services.
• Familiarity with cloud architectures, reliability and resilience patterns, observability, and operational excellence (SLAs/SLOs, scale, performance).
• Familiarity with AI frameworks, ML concepts, and responsible AI principles.
• Exceptional communication skills, including executive level presentations.
• Proven ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations and drive alignment across diverse teams.

Tech Stack

• Cloud

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Professional development opportunities