Senior Product Manager, Platform

Company Background

At Censys, we know the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Censys stands at the forefront of internet and cloud expertise, empowering customers through our Attack Surface Management solutions. We offer a unique attacker-centric perspective, providing a comprehensive view of external internet and cloud assets to prioritize and mitigate critical risk exposures effectively. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database ensure customers have continuously updated attack surface insights. Enterprises rely on Censys to stay ahead of cyber threats and proactively safeguard against attacks, driving tangible impact in the digital landscape.

Location

This is a hybrid role based in one of our four hubs: Ann Arbor, MI / Los Altos, CA / Kirkland, WA / Tysons Corner, VA

We are looking for a strategic and technically adept Senior Product Manager to drive the evolution of our Censys Platform. The Platform is the foundation upon which our solutions are built. It provides the core services, APIs, and infrastructure that enable scalable internet data collection, enrichment, and delivery to products supporting numerous workflows of a security team.

As Senior Product Manager for Censys Platform, you will own and drive the evolution of the platform’s foundational capabilities—including identity and access management, credits-based consumption models, marketplace extensibility, robust APIs, and developer-centric extensibility. This role requires a deep understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and the intelligence workflows that power modern cybersecurity operations.

You will partner closely with engineering, research, design, and go-to-market teams to shape and deliver a modular, developer-friendly platform that enables both internal and external teams to rapidly build security capabilities on top of our internet-wide scanning and intelligence data.

This is a technical product and a technical role . The ideal candidate will have cybersecurity experience in a product management, or engineering capacity. You will combine technical expertise with product leadership to shape the future of global internet visibility and security intelligence.

• Own the Platform Roadmap: Define and execute the product roadmap for core services, APIs, and extensibility frameworks, enabling rapid development and scaling of security modules.


• Drive AI-Powered Capabilities: Partner with engineering and research teams to integrate AI/ML-driven insights and analytics into the platform, unlocking smarter detection, enrichment, and decision-support for security practitioners.


• Platform Foundations: Lead the development of foundational features such as authentication & authorization, credit-based consumption models, product integrations, platform alerting, product marketplace, and multi-org management.


• API and Developer Experience: Define product requirements for robust, well-documented APIs and developer toolkits, enabling internal and external teams to easily build on the platform.


• Enable Product-Led Growth (PLG): Design and deliver self-service features, usage-based pricing models, and in-platform upsell opportunities that drive customer adoption, engagement, and expansion through PLG principles.


• Drive Execution: Collaborate with engineering, design, and infrastructure teams to prioritize, ship, and iterate on key features with a focus on scalability, security, and usability.


• Cross-Module Enablement: Work closely with other product teams to ensure seamless integration of platform services with modules focused on multiple use cases.


• Customer-Centric Design: Partner with the design team and engage with customers, partners, and developers to understand their challenges and ensure platform capabilities deliver tangible value.


• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Establish clear metrics for success, track platform usage, and drive improvements based on data and feedback.


• Market Awareness: Stay informed on trends in security SaaS platforms, third-party risk, and attack surface management, identifying opportunities for differentiation and innovation.

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in SaaS platform products or developer-focused tools.


• Strong track record of delivering core platform capabilities (e.g., IAM, usage metering, billing systems, APIs, modular architecture).


• Deep understanding of APIs and platform extensibility—able to define technical requirements and work closely with engineering.


• Familiarity with consumption-based pricing models, credit systems, or usage-based billing.


• Understanding and familiarity with security best practices, knowledge of supplier intelligence workflows, or attack surface or incident response.


• Ability to drive clarity in an area through strong verbal and written communication.


• Appropriately influences and persuades others to a course of action without formal authority.

Bonus Points

• Previous experience developing SaaS applications, or experience developing supplier intelligence workflows.


• Knowledge of network protocols and Internet infrastructure including TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, DNS, WHOIS, certificates, TLS, BGP, and common service protocols.


• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where changes happen quickly

Our target salary range for this role is between $151,000 USD and $200,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.

Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan with location hubs in Seattle, the Bay Area, and Tysons, VA. Our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. For this role, we are looking for candidates based in one of our four hub locations: Seattle, WA, Los Altos, CA, Tysons, VA, or Ann Arbor, MI and you will be required to go into the office Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third day of choice.