HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world’s largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

Position Summary

HackerOne is seeking a hands-on, mission-driven Principal Product Manager to lead our security researcher / ethical hacker community-focused product line development, including the efficiency of engagement between our hackers and customers across HackerOne program types. With the leading marketplace of customer programs and hacker skills in scale and breadth, HackerOne delivers unparalleled opportunities for hackers to apply their skills and be rewarded well for it. This is an opportunity to lead the product line build-out and scaling of creative, disruptive offerings designed to streamline customer selection of hackers and hacker engagement in customer programs, ease hacker community collaboration within programs, and offer more value to hackers as they grow their engagement in the HackerOne marketplace of customer programs.

This is a remote position located in the United States and reports into the Senior Vice President of Product.  This is a unique opportunity for a community-minded, technically savvy, and self-motivated product leader who is passionate about successful delivery and product growth.

What You Will Do

• Lead HackerOne product line development for hackers with strategic perspective across all cross-functional facets of the business necessary to drive actionable and implementable strategies and execution to achieve hacker community and marketplace goals for the business.

• Lead cross-functional collaboration with hackers and customers necessary to determine and deliver on hacker product line strategy, vision and roadmap in driving:

  • Healthy hacker engagement across all customer programs

  • Retention of hackers and growth in their engagement in our marketplace

• Develop and apply expertise in hacker-powered security research for vulnerability discovery and penetration testing to create product experiences that customers and hackers love in collaboration with developers, designers and customer/hacker success managers.

• Stay at the forefront of industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive developments to identify opportunities for disruptive innovation and position HackerOne as a market leader.

Minimum Qualifications  

• 6+ years of experience in Product Management in high-growth tech companies.

• Proven track record of successfully developing products in mid-size, high-growth businesses involving in-depth cross-functional collaboration and leadership across R&D and go-to-market.

• Outstanding communication and leadership skills with a collaborative and team-oriented approach to identifying problems, determining potential solutions and building consensus around your vision with internal and external stakeholders.

• Deep understanding of cybersecurity technologies and market trends.

• Must be based remotely in the United States. HackerOne is a digital-first company. This model offers our employees flexibility in time and location. All employees must be able to work and excel in a remote environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain experience with security research / hacking as part of red teaming, penetration testing and/or bug bounty programs, including methods, tools and types of testing.

• Expertise in high growth approaches to product discovery, planning and development processes and tools, particularly in a cloud-based SaaS delivery model involving comprehension of the full scope development challenges and planning, including service availability, COGS and multi-product platformization.

• Demonstrated data-driven, highly analytical problem solving delivering thoughtful solutions that delight users.

• Bachelor’s degree and/or MBA in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Compensation Bands:
Tier Guide

Tier A: $200,800 - $225,000

Tier B: $180,700 - $225,000

Tier C: $ 170,700 - $213,350

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For US based roles only: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, all qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for the position.

HackerOne Values

HackerOne commits to maintaining a strong, inclusive culture built for our employees and our community of hackers. We are driven by our five core values. We recognize that our mission is bigger than us, and therefore act with integrity at all times. As a team, we believe that transparency builds trust so we default to disclosure in our communications. Each individual executes with excellence, creating an environment of greater alignment and greater autonomy. We win as a team and respect all people to empower everyone to learn from each other, innovate, and grow.