Product Manager - SecOps

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks. The company acquired Secureworks in February 2025, bringing together two pioneers that have redefined the cybersecurity industry with their innovative, native AI-optimized services, technologies and products. Sophos is now the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, supporting more than 28,000 organizations. In addition to MDR and other services, Sophos’ complete portfolio includes industry-leading endpoint, network, email, and cloud security that interoperate and adapt to defend through the Sophos Central platform.

Secureworks provides the innovative, market-leading Taegis XDR/MDR, identity threat detection and response (ITDR), next-gen SIEM capabilities, managed risk, and a comprehensive set of advisory services. Sophos sells all these solutions through reseller partners, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) worldwide, defending more than 600,000 organizations worldwide from phishing, ransomware, data theft, and other everyday and state-sponsored cybercrimes.

The solutions are powered by historical and real-time threat intelligence from Sophos X-Ops and the newly added Counter Threat Unit (CTU). Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at

Role Summary

Join us as part of our fast-paced and innovative Security Operations team where you will work on our flagship XDR products. You’ll be a highly visible member of the team, working closely with the dev team, other stakeholders, and owning roadmap items.

Ideal candidates will be highly technical and have a proven background in building market-leading products and services. You must possess a good blend of technical acumen with the ability to work closely with Engineering, with a big-picture vision that you can communicate to customers, partners, and industry analysts. You will work with the latest in technology stacks and participate in product strategy, planning sessions, product design, and requirements gathering.

You’re ready and willing to step up, make hard decisions about prioritization, and trade-offs. You will partner with brilliant engineering teams and architects across the globe to build innovative solutions for real-world problems.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with other Product Managers and teams within Sophos, identifying synergies, flagging dependencies/risks, aimed at delivering cross product and cross business unit deliverables while ensuring that the best company-level decisions are taken.
• Maintain knowledge of competitors’ product offerings and assist in identifying market opportunities and gaps in the Sophos offerings to ensure that Sophos products remain competitive and differentiated in the marketplace.
• Take the lead in developing requirements and user stories for assigned products with the development teams, working in an agile process.
• Develop and foster relationships directly with internal key influencers/leaders (e.g. key engineering leaders and sales engineering staff) to inform and execute product priorities.
• Manage expectations with senior product leadership providing status, action plans and recommendations related to the managed product lines.
• Work with the Engineering team(s) to ensure that all projects that form part of the strategic product plans are tracking to plan and any issues are addressed promptly or escalated to senior management for resolution.
• Act as a point of contact for the Product Management team during the product delivery lifecycle providing leadership and decisions to ensure all activities meet plan.

What You Will Bring

• A good knowledge of cybersecurity products and the market, including the competitive landscape.
• Understanding of working in collaboration with a diverse range of business functions and customers to drive change and achieve delivery.
• Experience of working with agile development teams and requirement definition/story breakdown for these teams.
• Involvement working with UX/UI teams designing a compelling customer experience in software.
• Track record of preparing and presenting a technical roadmap,…