VP, Product Management — API and AI Security

VP, Product Management — API and AI Security

Harness is a high‑growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs.

The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded App Dynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top‑tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, Service Now, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Harness is looking for an exceptional, strategic, and technically deep VP of Product Management to lead our API and AI Security product portfolio. In this role, you will define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for how Harness secures modern, distributed applications—from code to production—through intelligent, developer‑centric API security solutions.

You will partner closely with Engineering, Security, GTM, and Executive leadership to build category‑defining capabilities that help engineering teams discover, protect, and remediate API risks s is a high‑impact leadership role that requires equal parts product vision, technical fluency, and the ability to ship fast in a competitive, fast‑evolving domain.

• Own and articulate the long‑term vision and strategy for Harness’ API and AI Security products, aligning with the company’s broader Dev Sec Ops  platform strategy.
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Managers across multiple product work streams.
• Evaluate market shifts, emerging threats, regulatory changes, and customer needs to influence product direction.
• Drive prioritization and product investments across API discovery, runtime protection, risk scoring, posture management, and remediation workflows.

• Build and execute a product roadmap that balances innovation with operational excellence and customer outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering to deliver high‑quality, scalable, and performant API security features.
• Define clear KPIs, success metrics, and data‑driven signals that guide product decisions.
• Ensure timely, iterative delivery with tight feedback loops with customers and field teams.

• Stay deeply connected to customers—security leaders, platform teams, and developers—to understand evolving API challenges in cloud‑native environments.
• Assess competitive landscapes (WAF, RASP, API gateways, API posture management, runtime security tools) and identify areas of differentiation for Harness.
• Work with Design and User Research to ensure a frictionless, developer‑first experience.

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Field Security to define packaging, pricing, and GTM motions.
• Equip field teams with product enablement, competitive positioning, and use‑case‑based storytelling.
• Support key customer conversations, executive briefings, and industry events as a thought leader in API security.

• Work across all Harness product lines to ensure consistent security workflows across CI/CD, Feature Flags, SRE/Observability, and IDP products.
• Build connective tissue between engineering, security engineering, platform teams, and GTM organizations.
• Foster a culture of high ownership, customer…