Senior Product Manager

**About Qevlar AI**: We are an innovative early-stage B2B SaaS startup in the Cybersecurity space, developing autonomous AI agents that help security teams defend against threats. Since our creation a year ago, we have: - Raised €4.5 million in seed funding led by EQT Ventures - Been selected to be part of the AI startup program, led by Meta and Hugging Face - Been selected to be part of the Microsoft GenAI studio - Won the cybersecurity challenge organised by Orange Cyberdefense - Named a Future 40 by Station F for 2024 We are looking for an IC Senior Product Manager to join our product and design team, reporting to the head of product. The role is hands-on, focusing on end-to-end ownership of product initiatives, where you'll be great at blending quantitative and qualitative insights and industry trends into problems to solve. This role suits a strong generalist with at least 4-6 years of experience delivering complex solutions, who is resourceful, comfortable with ambiguity, and can work and learn at a start-up pace. We're looking for someone who is energized by the opportunities and challenges we face, and has a bias for action with informed points of view. This is an opportunity to join a team where you’ll have significant influence, work on 0-1 product challenges, and contribute to building something exceptional from the ground up. **What will you do?**: - Collaborate with engineering and technical experts to understand the unique challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity and AI, translating these into user-focused solutions. - Building and managing the roadmap and making prioritization decisions for long-term projects and short-term experiments, particularly those that drive the biggest business impact. - Conduct user interviews, research, and feedback sessions to uncover pain points and ensure alignment with user needs. - Speak directly with clients and pilot teams to explain ideas, gather feedback, and refine prototypes and solutions, adopting a "good enough to learn" mindset rather than striving for pixel-perfect designs upfront. - Translating customer needs and business requirements into clear and actionable user stories, product specifications, and wireframes. - Analyze product performance and usage metrics using tools like SQL and MixPanel to identify issues and opportunities. - Define, track, and iterate on success metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of product features and help guide strategic pivots. - Stay informed about market trends, competitors, and contribute to our go-to-market strategies. - Foster transparent communication across teams, sharing updates, decisions, and challenges proactively to avoid bottlenecks and promote openness. - Learn hands-on about the cybersecurity space and building with AI (LLM's). **Required Skills & Experience**: - Proven experience in SaaS product management, particularly with platform-based solutions, where you have taken ownership of an entire feature and delivered it, and evaluated after release if the outcomes were achieved. - Strong strategic thinking with the ability to create product goals, prioritize competing demands and opportunities, and align efforts with user needs and business objectives. - Familiarity with product frameworks such as JTBD, agile methodologies, and prioritization strategies, blending them into practical solutions when appropriate. - Hands-on execution experience in product discovery, design, development, and delivery; working directly with engineers, design, marketing, and sales. **Technical Skills**: - Proficiency with productivity tools like Notion, Linear, AirTable, Google Workspace - Working knowledge of analytics tools like MixPanel, and able to write SQL for extracting insights and driving decisions. - Proficiency with Figma for wireframing and design collaboration. - Highly capable in writing and structuring tickets, PRDs, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams. - Understanding of API's, 3rd party integrations, and software development lifecycles. - Be able to learn and discuss technical concepts around cybersecurity, and AI. **Soft Skills**: - Autonomous and proactive, with a problem-solving mindset and ability to work with mínimal guidance. - Adaptable and resilient, thriving in a dynamic startup environment - Strong communicator with empathy, who shares updates, aligns stakeholders, and fosters transparency. - You're pragmatic, humble, and understand the value of speed and execution. **Must haves**: - 4-6+ years of demonstrable product experience on SaaS platforms, with end to end ownership of features and outcomes. - Fluent in English, French proficiency is a plus (working language is English **Nice-to-Haves**: - Experience in cybersecurity. - Experience developing products based on LLM AI’s, understanding the constantly evolving nature of the space and the challenges of working with AI. - Have worked in an early-stage start-up environment before. **What We Value**: - Initiativ