Head of Product

OffSec

OffSec

Product
Remote
Posted on Saturday, August 26, 2023

About OffSec

Founded in 2007 by the creators of Kali Linux, OffSec (formerly known as Offensive Security) is the leading provider of continuous professional and workforce development, training, and education for cybersecurity practitioners. OffSec’s distinct pedagogy and practical, hands-on learning help organizations fill the infosec talent gap by training their teams on today’s most critical skills.

Become a part of our global presence and work from anywhere. With team members in over 40 countries, we believe in inspiring people of all backgrounds and communities. The OffSec team is composed of diverse, internationally published authors, conference speakers, and seasoned information technology professionals from both the private sector and governments worldwide.

Excited about our mission and what we do? Apply and join us!

About the Job

Hi Product Leaders! Are you passionate about building and leading a talented product team to deliver the world’s best cybersecurity training, striving to close the talent gap in cybersecurity today? Are you looking to work in a culture where people treat each other like family and love what they do? Are you excited about being scrappy, always innovating to find creative, practical, and efficient solutions? Are you proud of building the product team into a well oiled machine, delivering features timely that simply wow users? This might be for you!

Offensive Security is the world’s leader in providing hands-on cybersecurity training and certifications. We train people to be great problem solvers with the Try Harder mindset. We help people get a job, do the job well, and advance their careers in cybersecurity. Our students are from over 150 countries. All top organizations and governments use our training to reskill and upskill their teams. Our training transforms lives. We give back to the community with open source products like Kali Linux.

Our team is growing and needs individuals with the grit to inspire, craft, and execute amazing new visions for our training product portfolio. Come be a partner with our executive team, help create the future of cybersecurity workforce development, training and education products, automate the mundane, and embrace the creative.

Excited about our mission and what we do? Apply and join us!

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Develop the product vision to achieve the company vision by obtaining a deep understanding of the marketplace, audience, users, competitors, and opportunities
  • Translate product vision into actionable strategies, executable product plans, and a product roadmap.
  • Lead the product team to build the best in class learning platform for cybersecurity training with high level of engagement, ease of content discovery, and a delightful learning experience
  • Identify opportunities that lead to the growth of the product through innovation while still maintaining the fundamental business goals/priorities
  • Works closely with the engineering, content, success, sales and marketing to get their input in developing the product roadmap, inform them of the product vision and roadmap, and launch and deliver products and features into the market.
  • Manage the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to implementation
  • Develop processes needed to run product development efficiently, prioritize product decisions, and launch products.
  • Define the business case and product requirements for new features
  • Use data-driven analytical approach and customer feedback to measure and improve product/feature effectiveness and improvements Make cross-functional, strategic trade-offs with the impact to business as the key context.
  • Be an active participant and contributor for product pricing and packaging decisions
  • Create and empower a professional product management discipline..
  • Set cross-company product management processes.
  • Recruit, hire, grow and mentor the product team, including PM, UX and BA to achieve company goals and their personal development plans.
  • Cultivates an environment where team members are empowered and demonstrates a strong sense of ownership
  • Demonstrates an unwavering commitment to excellence, team culture, and living the OffSec values

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in consumer-facing internet product management
  • 5+ years of experience building and managing teams, including management of multiple people managers
  • Good understanding of the software development life cycle
  • Good cross-disciplinary collaboration experience between engineering, product management, project management, technical operations, and internal stakeholders
  • Experience with e-learning platform highly appreciated
  • Experience with cybersecurity a very nice to have
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Solid emotional intelligence and people skills
  • Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
  • Results-oriented, self-motivated, proactive self-starter with a passion for delivering high quality software in a high-performance team environment

Working Conditions

  • This position is for work from home
  • Team members are located throughout North America and Europe
  • This position requires accessibility to Offensive Security systems and interfaces, and adherence to all security protocols and policies.

Location Preference: North America

OffSec provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.