Technical Product Manager

Company Overview

Product Manager

About the Role FortifyData is seeking a Director of Product & Engineering to lead product direction and manage our engineering team for our unified GRC / cyber risk platform. This role spends significant daily time with the development team—supervising, deciding, guiding, and correcting course—while driving R&D and light hands-on contribution. The ideal candidate has a strong cybersecurity background and can effectively manage the existing team to deliver meaningful product progress.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as Product Manager for the engineering organization: prioritize work, make daily and sprint-level decisions, guide the team, and keep development aligned with business needs.
• Directly manage a team of approximately seven engineers (4 full-stack Java developers, 1 front-end developer, 1 senior DevOps engineer focused on AWS, and 1 QA).
• Drive R&D initiatives and contribute light development or architecture work to assist the team.
• Participate in executive management meetings and translate business priorities into technical execution.
• Ensure technical quality, velocity, and alignment with FortifyData’s cyber risk, attack surface, third-party risk, and compliance capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with the Technical Services function to incorporate customer and field insights into the roadmap.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a small-to-midsize software engineering team in a SaaS or cybersecurity environment.
• Strong cybersecurity domain knowledge (attack surface management, GRC, vulnerability management, risk scoring, or related areas preferred).
• Hands-on technical background (Java/full-stack, cloud/AWS, or modern web technologies a plus).
• Ability to make clear product and technical decisions, guide developers, and drive R&D.
• Experience in Agile environments and working closely with executive leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior product management responsibility for a development team.
• Experience with Java/Spring, Angular or modern front-end frameworks, AWS, and relational databases.
• Background in building or scaling cyber risk, GRC, or security platforms.
• Track record of balancing hands-on contribution with people management.

Pay: $40,000.00 - $65,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Work Location: Remote