Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Acquia is a company that empowers ambitious brands to create impactful digital customer experiences. They are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategic direction of their edge and security platform, ensuring it remains a competitive advantage while managing partnerships and product strategy effectively.
Responsibilities
- Own the edge platform strategy. Define and drive product strategy for our full edge and security portfolio, including WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, bot management, and the technology integrations that power them
- Lead strategic partnership management. Own relationships with our CDN, WAF, and security technology partners at a strategic level, including roadmap alignment, commercial negotiation, and the partnership decisions that shape our edge capabilities for years to come
- Architect for an AI driven traffic landscape. Define how the platform distinguishes legitimate automated traffic from malicious activity, how non human identity and authentication are handled at the edge, and how rate limiting and usage policies account for a growing volume of AI agent and automated traffic
- Define commercial edge strategy. Partner with commercial and growth teams to build the pricing, packaging, and bundling strategy that makes best in class edge protection a native platform capability
- Set team strategy and influence without authority. Define the strategic agenda for the broader edge and security team, align peers including senior colleagues around a shared direction, and keep the work moving through clarity of argument rather than positional authority
- Maintain strategic visibility. Keep leadership consistently informed on edge and security priorities, progress, and risk. Proactive, structured communication upward is a core part of this role
- Build shared context for AI enabled workflows. Maintain the documentation and knowledge structures, covering edge architecture, partner roadmaps, and security standards, that let modern AI assisted workflows scale analysis and documentation without manual overhead
Skills
- 7+ years of Product Management experience, with a focus on security, edge services, CDN, or platform infrastructure
- Strategic Partnership Management: demonstrated experience owning strategic relationships with major technology vendors or partners, including roadmap negotiation, commercial terms, and long term partnership governance
- Strong commercial instincts: pricing, packaging, and the product mechanics that turn technical capabilities into market winning propositions
- A track record of setting strategic direction and bringing experienced peers along without relying on formal authority
- Technical fluency in WAF, DDoS protection, CDN, and edge security architecture, sufficient to hold your own with senior security engineers and enterprise architects
- An understanding of how AI and automated traffic patterns are changing security, bot management, and API protection requirements
- A genuine conviction that security done well is a growth driver, not a cost center
- Location: Must be based in US or Canada with availability aligned to Eastern Standard Time business hours
- We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool, but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow
- The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindset—the ability to skillfully prompt, manage, and direct AI to navigate complexity—and maintains a high degree of AI fluency
- You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a 'builder' mentality, showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows
- Beyond technical proficiency, we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient, AI-augmented processes
- You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve
Benefits
- Competitive healthcare coverage
- Wellness programs
- Take it when you need it time off
- Parental leave
- Recognition programs
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