About the Role
Lightbeam is looking for a Product Manager focused on Data Security and Governance to help build and scale a category-defining platform. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys building from first principles, and wants real ownership over product outcomes.
You will work at the intersection of data security, access governance, risk remediation, and compliance automation, partnering closely with engineering, design, sales, and customers. This is a hands-on role where strategy and execution go together. If you like shipping, debating trade-offs, and seeing customers use what you build, you’ll fit right in.
About Lightbeam
Lightbeam converges data security, privacy, and governance so organizations can confidently scale across cloud, SaaS, and on-prem environments.
Powered by generative AI, Lightbeam pioneered an identity-centric, automation-first approach to data security. Unlike siloed tools, Lightbeam provides unified visibility and control across structured and unstructured data, enabling organizations to:
- Discover and classify sensitive data at scale
- Identify and remediate risky and excessive access
- Enforce security controls directly at the data layer
- Continuously monitor exposure and misconfigurations
- Strengthen resilience against ransomware and accidental data exposure
- Comply with global data privacy regulations.
Why Join Lightbeam
- Build real product, not slideware: You’ll work on core platform capabilities used by security teams every day.
- High ownership, high impact: Your decisions will directly influence roadmap, customer outcomes, and company direction.
- Freedom to experiment: Early-stage environment with room to test ideas, validate fast, and iterate.
- Learn the business end-to-end: Exposure to customers, GTM, integrations, and strategic partnerships.
Why This Role Is Not for Everyone
This is not a role for someone looking for a narrowly scoped PM seat or a “wait-for-instructions” environment. You will be expected to drive clarity, make hard prioritization calls, and operate comfortably in an extremely fast-paced environment where context shifts quickly.
If you want structure handed to you, this will feel uncomfortable. If you like building structure while moving fast, you’ll love it.
Responsibilities
- Product Strategy and Roadmap
- Define and articulate a clear product strategy aligned with LightBeam’s vision and business goals.
- Own and maintain a forward-looking roadmap across data security and governance capabilities.
- Translate high-level vision into concrete, executable plans.
- Market and Customer Insight
- Conduct competitive and market research across data security, DSPM, and access governance.
- Work directly with customers to understand real-world security risks and workflows.
- Use insights to inform product positioning and prioritization.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with engineering and design to deliver high-quality features.
- Work with sales, customer success, and marketing to ensure strong product-market fit.
- Influence stakeholders without relying on authority.
- Product Development and Execution
- Own the full product lifecycle from discovery through launch and iteration.
- Write clear PRDs, define scope, and make pragmatic trade-offs.
- Prioritize features based on customer impact, risk reduction, and business value.
- UX and Product Quality
- Collaborate with design to deliver intuitive, security-first user experiences.
- Ensure usability does not compromise security or scalability.
- Define acceptance criteria and success metrics for features.
- Metrics and Outcomes
- Define and track KPIs related to adoption, risk reduction, and customer value.
- Use data to evaluate impact and guide future investments.
- Testing and Quality
- Define product-level testing strategies.
- Partner with QA and engineering to ensure reliable, enterprise-grade releases.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field. MBA is a plus.
- 7+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS.
- Strong exposure to data security, access governance, identity, or enterprise security platforms.
- Ability to think strategically while executing with speed and discipline.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments.
- Proven experience working cross-functionally and influencing without authority.
How to Apply
Send your resume and a brief cover letter to [email protected]
Ready to bet on yourself? Let’s build something extraordinary, together.