Principal Product Manager - AppSec at Harnessinc

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal (founder of AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.7B). Harness has raised approximately $570M in funding and is valued at $5.5B, backed by leading investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, Citi Ventures, and more. As AI accelerates code creation, the real bottleneck has shifted to everything after the code – testing, deployments, application security, reliability, compliance, and cost optimization. Harness brings AI and automation to this “outer loop,” helping teams ship software faster while maintaining security and governance throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle. Powered by Harness AI and the Software Delivery Knowledge Graph, the Harness Platform applies deep context and intelligent automation across the software delivery lifecycle with governance and policy-driven controls embedded throughout the platform. Over the past year, Harness powered over 185M deployments, 82M builds, 18T flag evaluations, 8M security scans, 9.1B optimized tests, 3T protected API calls, and helped manage $2.8B in cloud spend — enabling customers like United Airlines, Morningstar, and Choice Hotels to accelerate releases by up to 75%, reduce cloud costs by up to 60%, and achieve 10x DevOps efficiency. With a global team across 14 offices and 25 countries, Harness is shaping the future of AI software delivery — and we’re looking for exceptional talent to help us move even faster. About the role Harness is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategy and execution for the core Platform, Data Collection, and Integrations that power our API and AI Security portfolio. This role sits at the foundation of our security offerings, owning the systems that enable scalable data ingestion, observability, policy enforcement, and ecosystem connectivity across customer environments. You will define and drive the long term platform vision, translating market shifts in API and AI security into durable architectural investments and differentiated capabilities. This includes instrumentation, telemetry pipelines, integration frameworks, data processing, and platform level services that enable protection at scale. As a senior individual contributor, you will operate across product lines, partnering closely with Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Product Marketing to ensure we deliver enterprise grade solutions that are scalable, performant, and aligned with real world customer needs. This role requires deep engagement with strategic customers, a strong understanding of security and infrastructure ecosystems, and the ability to turn complex technical challenges into clear product direction. What You Will Do Own Platform Strategy and Vision • Define and drive the long term strategy for core platform capabilities including data collection, telemetry, integrations, instrumentation, and shared services across API and AI security. • Align platform investments with the broader DevSecOps platform strategy and company goals. • Identify architectural priorities that unlock scale, performance, and enterprise readiness. Drive Roadmap and Execution • Build and maintain a multi quarter roadmap that balances innovation, scalability, operational excellence, and customer outcomes. • Partner with Engineering to deliver high quality, reliable, and scalable platform capabilities. • Ensure iterative delivery with tight feedback loops from customers and field teams. • Define and track clear KPIs and success metrics to guide decision making. Customer and Market Leadership • Engage directly with enterprise customers, including security, platform, and DevOps leaders, to understand deployment models, operational patterns, compliance requirements, and evolving AI driven use cases. • Identify patterns across customer needs and market trends, synthesize insights, and translate them into a clear product strategy. • Represent the platform vision internally and externally, articulating value, differentiation, and best practices. Cross Functional Leadership • Act as the connective layer between field teams and engineering, ensuring clarity of priorities and strong alignment. • Work closely with Sales, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Support to define success criteria for regulated, enterprise environments. • Communicate product direction and value clearly through structured documents and executive ready presentations. Platform Quality and Experience • Champion scalable architecture, reliability, performance, and usability across platform capabilities. • Ensure integrations and data collection experiences are intuitive, secure, and enterprise ready. • Advocate for strong user experience across platform level workflows. About You • 8 to 10 plus years of product management experience, with a strong track record owning and shipping infrastructure, platform, or security products at scale. • Deep experience in DevOps, cloud native systems, or security platforms, including telemetry, logging, data pipelines, or instrumentation. • Familiarity with technologies such as OpenTelemetry, observability systems, and large scale data processing architectures. • Direct experience building or managing API security, application security, or adjacent security products. • Demonstrated ability to operate in fast moving, high growth environments and bring structure to ambiguity. • Strong analytical mindset with a data driven approach to decision making. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for executives, customers, and cross functional teams. • Proven ability to influence across functions without formal authority. • Clear history of building products used by developers, platform teams, or security engineering organizations. Harness in the news: • Accelerating Our Mission to Bring AI to Everything After Code • Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation • How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal • Harness Research Shows AI Visibility Crisis Fueling Security Nightmare • Harness has been named to the Inc. Power Partner list for software delivery success All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Note on Fraudulent Recruiting/Offers We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers. 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