Senior Product Manager (Scanner)

• Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure
• production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant
• Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake.
• Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital.
• Senior Product Manager, Malware Detection
• The role, in a nutshell:
• Chainguard is building the most trusted source for open source software. Every artifact Chainguard distributes is evaluated by our scanner before it reaches a customer. It determines whether a package, container
• AI agent skill is safe to use—and sits between our customers and compromised software.
• What began as a high-leverage internal system has become a core platform powering Chainguard Libraries, Containers, Agent Skills, and future products. We're hiring the first Product Manager dedicated to this platform.
• You'll own detection quality, platform strategy
• the customer experience around scanning. You'll partner closely with Engineering and Product Security to define how organizations evaluate software trust in an AI-driven world.
• What you'll own:
• Detection Quality
• Own coverage, precision, and delivery of core product metrics.
• Drive the feedback loop between Engineering and Product Security to continuously improve detection quality.
• Build workflows for reviewing, escalating, and correcting detections quickly.
• Scanner Platform
• Define the roadmap for Chainguard's shared scanning platform.
• Scale the scanner beyond Libraries to Containers, Agent Skills, and future artifact types.
• Balance investments in detection quality, performance, and extensibility.
• Threat Detection
• Expand malware and greyware detection capabilities.
• Partner with Product Security to identify emerging threats and publish actionable intelligence.
• Customer Experience
• Define how customers investigate, enforce, and appeal scanner findings.
• Build intuitive workflows for policy management and enterprise-scale operations

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of Product Management experience with a strong track record building developer tools, infrastructure, security, or platform products.
• Experience owning highly technical platforms or backend infrastructure that supports multiple products or internal customers.
• Strong understanding of software supply chain security, malware detection, vulnerability management, or adjacent security domains.
• Demonstrated success making product prioritization decisions in technically complex and ambiguous environments.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence Engineering, Security, Design, and GTM partners.
• Experience taking products or platform capabilities from early concept through customer adoption and iterative improvement.
• Strong technical credibility—you don't need to write production code, but you should be comfortable discussing architecture, distributed systems, APIs, and security concepts with engineering teams.
• Nice to haves
• Experience with malware detection, static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), or vulnerability scanning.
• Familiarity with package ecosystems such as npm, PyPI, Maven, Go modules, or container registries.
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities that support multiple products.
• Background in cloud infrastructure, software supply chain security, or enterprise security platforms.
• Experience working with AI-assisted security analysis or automated threat detection systems.
• Explore Our Work
• Dive into the practical side of what we do at Chainguard. These resources provide a hands-on look at our processes and offer an opportunity for in-depth understanding of our product offerings and the technology behind them.
• Chainguard Academy
• https://www.chainguard.dev
• Base Salary Range
• $205,000 — $231,000 USD
• About Us
• We live and breathe our company values:
• We are customer obsessed — We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
• We have a bias for intentional action — We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
• We don't take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) — We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
• We trust each other and assume good intentions — We're transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
• A few of the benefits we offer:
• Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
• Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
• 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
• ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
• 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
• If your experience is close but doesn't fulfill all requirements, please apply. We're building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring "Chainguardians" with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions
• related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity
• other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
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