Director/Sr Director, Product Management, Risk-Based Vulnerability Mgmt (RBVM)
QualysFoster City$210k – $240kPosted 6 April 2026
Job Description
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Job Description: Director/Sr Director of Product Management – RBVM, ASM, CTEM – Risk Operation Center (ROC)
Date posted: April 2026
About the job
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Director/Sr Director of Product Management – RBVM, CTEM, ASM – Risk Operation Center (ROC)
Location: Foster City, CA, USA
Organization: Product GTM & SME
Reports To: SVP of Product Management
Role Overview
Qualys is seeking a Director / Sr. Director of Product Management to lead its flagship Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) product powered by Qualys VMDR and drive the evolution toward Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) via Qualys ETM.
This leader will own the end-to-end product strategy, execution, and business performance of VMDR, serving 8,000 global customers, while driving the transition from vulnerability management → risk-based prioritization → autonomous remediation → CTEM platform adoption .
You will lead a team of 5 product managers, partner with engineering, GTM, and field teams, and directly influence revenue growth, customer retention, and platform expansion.
What You Will Be Doing
Product Ownership: VMDR (RBVM)
This role sits at the intersection of VMDR (execution) → ETM (risk platform), part of ROC (Risk Operation Center)
What Makes This Role Unique
Own Qualys’ flagship product (VMDR) used by thousands of enterprises
Drive transition from VM → CTEM platform leadership
Build Agentic AI–powered security workflows
Direct impact on revenue, growth, and company strategy
Lead the next evolution of cybersecurity: autonomous risk reduction
Strategic Mandate (What You’ll Really Be Doing)
This role is fundamentally about:
Turning VMDR into the front door of Qualys platform growth
Using AI workflows to drive customer expansion into ETM
Building the industry’s first autonomous RemOps CTEM platform
Key Responsibilities
Product Leadership - Own VMDR as a Business (P&L Mindset)
Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for VMDR
Lead and mentor a team of 5 Product Managers
Drive innovation across:
vulnerability prioritization (RBVM)
remediation workflows
asset-risk correlation
Deliver features that reduce MTTR and improve risk reduction outcomes
Business Ownership (Revenue Growth)
Own end-to-end business metrics:
ARR / revenue growth for VMDR product line
Customer renewals and retention
Cross-sell and upsell into:
ETM
CSAM
Patch / Remediation solutions
Partner with GTM teams to:
Drive pipeline generation
Enable Sales with product positioning
Define pricing and packaging strategy
Customer-Centric Innovation (Short–Mid Term)
Drive customer deal-breaker capabilities including:
Scalable remediation workflows and automation
Better prioritization beyond CVSS (business context, exploitability)
Improved reporting, dashboards, and executive insights
Seamless ITSM / DevOps integrations
Cross-asset visibility (cloud, endpoint, identity)
Translate customer friction → product wins → revenue growth
Lead RBVM → CTEM Evolution
Define roadmap to evolve VMDR into:
Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM)
Exposure management platform
CTEM-aligned workflows
Build tight integration with:
CSAM (asset context)
ETM (risk aggregation and prioritization)
Drive VMDR “Deal Breaker” Requirements (0–18 months)
Identify and deliver top customer gaps blocking large deals, such as:
Faster prioritization accuracy (TruRisk improvements)
Better remediation workflows (ownership, SLA tracking)
Reporting and executive dashboards
Scalable performance for large enterprises
Partner with field (SEs, TAMs) to capture:
Competitive losses
Renewal risks
Enterprise feature gaps
Design Agentic AI Workflows (Next-Gen Differentiation)
Lead innovation in Agentic AI-driven vulnerability remediation, including:
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