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Staff Product Manager, Threat Hunting Experience

Horizon3.ai

San Francisco, CA · $225k–$265k a year · Posted October 28, 2026

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Get to Know Us

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

About the Role

Horizon3 is in search for a technical, hands-on Staff Product Manager to own NodeZero Threat Hunting as a business, from category definition and roadmap through ARR, pricing, and go-to-market.

NodeZero proves where attackers can get in and what they can reach. Threat Hunting answers the question customers ask next: did someone use that path before we fixed it? This role sits at the seam between offense and defense. It turns what NodeZero proves about a customer’s exposure into a hunting experience that confirms whether that exposure was already exploited, extending find, fix, verify into knowing whether a customer was compromised.

You will deeply understand the operational realities of SOC, threat hunting, and IR teams, and translate their needs into differentiated product capabilities. You will partner hands-on with the Attack team and Engineering to take this offering from prototype through GA.

As the CEO of this product within Precision Defense Product Management, you will set its vision and strategy, own its commercial performance, and align Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success around shared business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Be the CEO of Threat Hunting: Own the product’s vision, strategy, and priorities, and be accountable for customer outcomes, execution, and commercial success.

Define the category: Define what exposure-driven threat hunting means at Horizon3 and how it extends find, fix, verify. Build the framework for how and what we hunt in a customer’s environment, why it matters, and what customers get, and make it the foundation for roadmap, packaging, positioning, and enablement.

Own ARR and growth: Own new ARR, attach rates to NodeZero, expansion, upgrades, and retention. Set growth targets and partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Finance to hit them.

Define the business plan and roadmap: Define target segments and buyers, growth opportunities, and required investment. Own the short, medium, and long term roadmap, and make tradeoffs based on customer value, revenue potential, and return on investment.

Drive pricing, packaging, and monetization: Shape how Threat Hunting is sold, with clear upgrade paths from core NodeZero and the broader Precision Defense portfolio. Continuously improve adoption, conversion, and revenue.

Stay ahead of the competition: Track competitors’ products, pricing, packaging, positioning, and go-to-market across threat hunting capabilities. Turn competitive intel and win/loss insight into changes to strategy, differentiation, and sales execution.

Lead cross-functional execution: Align every function around shared business goals, establish clear ownership, and drive launches and growth initiatives through to measurable results.

Build and ship: Partner with the Attack team and Engineering to turn what NodeZero proves into hunting capabilities, working hands-on from prototype through GA.

Own the end-to-end experience: Own the UI, API, and integrations as part of one unified NodeZero journey. Work with Design on a UX built around target personas and their outcomes.

Go deep technically: Go deep on telemetry, detection logic, attack techniques, and data integrations to make sound tradeoffs and be a strong partner to Engineering.

Own delivery: Write clear requirements, own sequencing and delivery, and unblock the team when priorities collide.

Shape positioning and placement: Partner with PMM on target buyers, differentiated value, channels, and campaigns that drive awareness, demand, and adoption.

Drive sales and partner enablement: Equip sellers and partners with training, messaging, demos, battlecards, and ROI narratives. Bring field signals back into the team and roadmap.

Own adoption and value realization: Partner with Customer Success to accelerate activation, deepen usage, and prove measurable value. Use usage patterns and churn analysis to improve retention and find expansion.

Define and track success metrics: Set targets for and track product performance, including new ARR, attach rate, retention, adoption, and engagement.

Qualifications

7+ years of PM experience with technical B2B security products, including shipping 0-to-1 capabilities

Business ownership: track record owning a product’s commercial outcomes, including revenue targets, pricing and packaging, launches, and retention

Deep understanding of SOC, threat hunting, and IR teams, their needs, pain points, and the market solutions that address them

Technical aptitude: comfortable with MITRE ATT&CK, attack techniques, lateral movement, and security telemetry, and translating them into product requirements

Systems thinking: proven ability to build frameworks that bring structure to complex domains

Communication: excellent written and verbal skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to any audience

Bias towards action: default to action to drive impact quickly

Executive presence: experience working directly with executives to drive strategy and execute against success criteria

Curiosity: a learn-it-all mentality and drive to master new domains quickly

Preferred Experience:

Hands-on threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, or offensive security experience

Experience building or using AI agents for security operations

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technology-related field

Perks of Horizon3

Inclusive Team: We value diversity and promote an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive.

Growth Opportunities: Be part of a dynamic and growing team with numerous career development opportunities.

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