Principal Product Manager, Automation & Threat Intelligence

Closing Date

Sunday 4th January 2026

Birmingham, Bristol, London or Manchester

The BT group operates a 3 together, 2 wherever working model. This means you are required to be at your contractual location 3 days a week with 2 flexible days per week.

This role is responsible for ensuring that automation and AI capabilities within Managed Security Services meet market expectations and deliver fast, scalable, intelligent threat detection and response. It involves benchmarking against industry best practices, identifying gaps, and owning a roadmap to enhance internal capabilities.

Additionally, the role leads the development of a robust Cyber Threat Intelligence offering, providing customers with tactical, operational, and strategic insights to proactively defend against evolving threats.

• Automating Security Operations using SOAR and other tools across the portfolio.
• Measuring Threat Intelligence (TI) feed quality with feedback loops and usage metrics.
• Enhancing TI through automation, consolidating feeds into a single view and prioritising alerts using risk scoring and exploitability data.
• Streamlining Incident Response and Compliance Reporting by automating containment actions (e.g., isolating endpoints, blocking IPs/domains, disabling accounts).
• Integrating AI into SOC operations to prioritise alerts, assist analysts with GenAI, and scale adaptive automation.

• Strong background in managed security services and cybersecurity, with deep understanding of the UK market.
• Proven experience across the full product lifecycle: ideation, development, securing funding, business case creation, implementation, and launch.
• Familiarity with security technologies such as SIEM, SOAR, and XDR.

• Demonstrated ability to build and execute portfolio growth strategies across diverse customer segments (e.g., SMB, CSP).
• High commercial awareness, including product selection, justification, and price negotiation.
• Skilled in translating business goals into actionable roadmaps that drive market growth.

• Strong understanding of automation and AI concepts and their practical application in managed security services.
• Ability to identify service opportunities and address implementation challenges related to emerging technologies.
• Experience applying automation to improve efficiency, scalability, and threat response.

• Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• Comfortable navigating differing viewpoints and aligning stakeholders around strategic decisions.

• Annual on target bonus 15% (personal and company performance multipliers)
• £5,500 car allowance (can be taken as cash)
• Family health cover
• BT Pension scheme; minimum 5% employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays with the option to buy up to one week’s work of your contracted hours. This will also increase with service.
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• From January 2025, all parents welcoming a…