Staff Product Manager, Rapid Response

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 http://Horizon3.ai is in search of a highly motivated and technically skilled Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy and evolution of NodeZero Rapid Response. This role requires a strong blend of product leadership, cybersecurity expertise, threat intelligence experience, technical depth, and customer empathy to help organizations quickly understand whether emerging vulnerabilities create real, exploitable risk in their environments. The Staff Product Manager for Rapid Response will own the product strategy, roadmap, customer experience, and operating model for NodeZero Rapid Response. This leader will partner closely with the Attack Team, Engineering, Data, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Channel, and Support to define how Horizon3 monitors emerging threats, determines which vulnerabilities matter, maps those threats to customer environments, validates real-world exploitability, and helps customers take action before attackers do. RESPONSIBILITIES RAPID RESPONSE PRODUCT STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP - Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for NodeZero Rapid Response, helping customers understand and respond to emerging vulnerabilities based on real exploitability and customer-specific risk. - Establish the end-to-end operating model for Rapid Response, from initial threat signal through research, prioritization, customer relevance analysis, exploit/test development, notification, remediation, retesting, and verification. - Set clear ownership, decision rights, service-level expectations, and operating rhythms across the teams required to deliver Rapid Response at speed. - Drive standardization and scalability across Rapid Response research, customer communications, integrations, and operational workflows. EXPLOIT INTELLIGENCE & COVERAGE STRATEGY - Establish and grow exploit-intelligence relationships with security vendors, researchers, and other relevant intelligence providers to identify emerging Rapid Response opportunities as early as possible. - Define the threat intelligence strategy for Rapid Response across vendor advisories, CVEs, CISA KEV, public research, exploit repositories, attacker activity, and other sources of vulnerability and exploit intelligence. - Develop a prioritization framework for determining which vulnerabilities warrant immediate Rapid Response coverage based on exploitability, attacker utility, prevalence, customer footprint, potential impact, and evidence of exploitation in the wild. - Partner directly with vulnerability researchers and attack engineers to assess exploit prerequisites, affected products and versions, attack techniques, mitigations, and the evidence and production-safety controls needed to validate exploitability in customer environments. CUSTOMER RELEVANCE, EXPLOITABILITY & AUTOMATION - Build capabilities that identify which customers, environments, and assets are potentially affected by an emerging threat using asset intelligence, technology fingerprinting, exposure context, historical NodeZero data, and other relevant signals. - Drive the product, onboarding, and Customer Success motion required to get 100% of customers to run EAD and keep discovery current so Rapid Response notifications can be relevant and actionable. - Drive automation that accelerates exploit and test development, including reusable research and exploit-development workflows, AI-assisted analysis, automated data collection, quality gates, and production-safety checks. - Define and monitor operational metrics such as time from disclosure to threat assessment, time to customer relevance determination, time to test availability, alert precision, validation coverage, remediation rates, and retest rates. CUSTOMER A