VP of Product

About Veza

Veza is the authorization platform for data security. Identity and security professionals use Veza to modernize access governance for the new data landscape. By automating the work of finding and fixing excessive permissions on a continuous basis, Veza helps organizations achieve Least Privilege. Veza’s unique approach ingests metadata from any app or data system, organizes it as an authorization graph, and makes it searchable in real-time. Global enterprises like Blackstone, Wynn Resorts, Choice Hotels, and many more trust Veza to protect sensitive data and automate access reviews. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. To learn more, visit veza.com.

About the Opportunity

As the VP of Product, you’ll lead the team to build Veza Authorization Platform and lay the foundation for an iconic company. Today, we have three products: Search and Insights, Access Review Workflows, and Activity Monitoring. Search and Insights allow users to visualize the reality of access permissions to enterprise resources, find risk-prioritized misconfigurations with both pre-built and custom queries, and send alerts to your preferred enterprise collaboration systems. Access Review Workflows allow users to set up certification campaigns, managers or resource owners to review and validate permissions, and auditors to get full visibility and tracking of the access review process and certification results. Activity Monitoring provides an additional powerful layer of event data, adding insight into who performed what specific action, with better intelligence around dormant permissions and overall user risk. The platform connects to a wide range of cloud IAM, on-prem systems, identity providers, cloud platforms, structured data, unstructured data, and apps (both 3rd party and custom), to understand and manage data permissions. The platform also has the Open Authorization API, allowing customers to connect essentially any SaaS app or system to Veza. 

You Will:

• Prioritize customer needs, products, features, and the actions of you and your team
• Own the overall product roadmap for existing and future products in alignment with overall company goals and in partnership with the founding team
• Manage the Product Management team and help them define and evolve a world-class product
• Partner closely with the Engineering team to help them build great products and plan for the future
• Design, execute, and manage our overall product management strategy with collaboration from key stakeholders
• Help define and execute new product management processes to build scale while maintaining agility and speed
• Recruit and develop a world-class team of product managers who will deeply understand customer needs and how to translate those into actionable plans for Engineering
• Engage with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and improve Veza’s overall strategy 
• Collaborate with the Sales team to help demonstrate the value of the product, roadmap, and Veza as a development partner
• Support Product Marketing to position our core capabilities with a deep understanding of Veza’s target personas and their needs
• Serve as a company and product evangelist with thought leadership, blogging, social media posts, and speaking at industry events
• Understand the competitive landscape as an input for product planning, enabling near-term differentiation and building a long-term competitive moat

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience in B2B product management
• 5+ years of managing product management teams. 
• Experienced with Product Management in a high-growth start-up
• Willing and able to travel and meet with key stakeholders monthly 

Nice to Have:

• Professional experience at security and/or identity companies 
• Pre-IPO experience at companies that have since succeeded.
• Technical knowledge of authorization, authentication, identity, and data systems
• Experience hiring and managing product management teams of 5 or more
• Demonstrated track record of ambition, drive, and achievement