Director of Product Management
Qualys
Director of Product Management
Qualys
Cloud-based vulnerability management and compliance platform
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Job Description: Director, Product Management – Technology Alliances & Marketplace
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Director, Product Management – Technology Alliances & Marketplace
Location: Foster City, California (Min 3 days mandatory in office)
Why This Role Matters
The cybersecurity market is moving from standalone products to platform ecosystems.
Customers increasingly expect security tools to work together, share context, automate workflows, and deliver measurable risk reduction.
This role will build the ecosystem that makes the Qualys Risk Operations Center the central intelligence and orchestration layer across cloud, identity, endpoint, data, AI, network, and infrastructure security.
Vision:
"Make Qualys ROC the operating system for Cyber Risk Operations, powered by the industry's largest ecosystem of risk intelligence, remediation, and automation partners."
This position sits at the center of Product, Ecosystem, and Platform Strategy and will be a critical driver of Qualys' long-term growth and market differentiation.
Qualys is transforming cybersecurity operations through the Enterprise TruRisk Platform and the AI-Native Risk Operations Center (ROC). As organizations struggle to manage cyber risk across fragmented security and IT ecosystems, Qualys is building an open, ecosystem-driven platform that unifies risk intelligence, prioritization, and remediation across cloud, identity, endpoint, data, applications, infrastructure, and AI environments.
To accelerate this vision, we are seeking a Director of Product Management – Technology Alliances & Marketplace to build and scale the partner ecosystem powering the Qualys ROC.
Role Overview
This is a product leadership role responsible for defining and executing Qualys' technology ecosystem strategy.
You will own the vision, roadmap, and growth of the Qualys ROC Marketplace, driving partnerships with leading security, cloud, infrastructure, identity, AI, networking, mobile, OT/IoT, and IT operations vendors.
Your mission is to transform Qualys ROC into the industry's most connected Cyber Risk Operations platform by building integrations, joint solutions, co-selling motions, and ecosystem-driven customer outcomes.
You will work at the intersection of Product Management, Business Development, Engineering, Alliances, Marketing, and Sales to create partner-powered solutions that help customers identify, prioritize, orchestrate, and eliminate cyber risk.
Mission
Build the industry's leading Cyber Risk Operations Marketplace that enables customers to:
What You Will Own
Marketplace Strategy & Ecosystem Vision
Define and execute the strategy for the Qualys ROC Marketplace, including:
Create the industry's most comprehensive ecosystem for:
Technology Partnerships
Own executive-level relationships with key ecosystem partners.
Potential partner categories include Cloud Providers, Identity Security, Endpoint & Device Security, Cloud & Application Security, Data Security, AI Security, OT/IoT security, IT and Workflow systems.
Joint Solution Development
Partner with internal product leaders and alliance partners to define and deliver high-value joint use cases.
Examples joint use cases include Identity Risk Reduction, Cloud Risk Remediation, Endpoint Risk Elimination, AI Risk Management focusing discovering, prioritizing and remediating cyber risk with Agentic AI powered workflow.
Product Leadership
Collaborate with product management teams across all of Qualys products :
Responsibilities include:
Go-To-Market Leadership
Lead ecosystem GTM initiatives including:
Joint Launches
Sales Enablement
Develop:
Solution Demonstrations
Create and maintain:
Co-Sell Programs
Drive:
Key Success Metrics
Marketplace Growth
Business Impact
Product Impact
Impact
Qualifications
Required
Preferred
Experience in one or more of:
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate combines:
Product Strategist
Can identify market opportunities and translate them into ecosystem investments.
Ecosystem Builder
Knows how to create win-win partnerships that deliver customer value.
Technical Product Leader
Can define integrations, APIs, data models, and workflows.
GTM Operator
Can drive launches, enablement, and co-selling motions.
Executive Influencer
Can build trusted relationships with executives and partners.
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The salary range for this position is $200,000 - $230,000 per year. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to skills, relevant experience, and work location. Please note this range reflects base salary and does not include incentive compensation or potential equity grants. We also offer a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package.
Qualys is an Equal Opportunity Employer, please see our EEO policy.
Qualys provides cloud-based cybersecurity and compliance solutions that help organizations secure their IT infrastructure. It offers vulnerability management, policy compliance, web application security, and IT asset management through the Qualys Cloud Platform, enabling continuous monitoring, automated checks, policy enforcement, and real-time compliance reporting. It differentiates itself with real-time analytics, automated workflows, and a scalable cloud architecture that unify multiple security and compliance functions in one ecosystem across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its goal is to help organizations continuously assess risk, automate security processes, and demonstrate compliance across their entire IT footprint.
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