Principal Product Manager, AI

Our Mission & Values: At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build. We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority. Our Culture & Work Style 🚀 At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from: - Be a Driver (Owner‑Operator Mentality): Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results. - Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity): Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact. - Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‑Obsessed): Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry. We pair that high-velocity culture with a thoughtful hybrid model because we believe flexibility and collaboration both matter. That’s why in the Bay we come together in-office Tuesday through Thursday our high‑impact collaboration days where teams align, strategize, and innovate. Mondays and Fridays are flexible, giving you space for focused work, balance, and autonomy. If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people where you’ll feel at home here. Why Join The Drata Team? The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of 600+ people worldwide, united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth. - See the Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years - Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available. - Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists. - Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news. Job Summary: We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager, AI to lead Drata’s Agentic AI strategy and execution. In this role, you will own a multi-year AI vision that spans product lines and influences company-level strategy, building AI-native experiences that help customers get real GRC work done—not just chat with their data. You’ll sit in the AI Pillar, working across Product, Engineering, Design, GRC, and GTM teams to define, build, and scale AI agents that operate safely in customers’ environments and deliver measurable outcomes in areas like TPRM, evidence collection, control mapping, and reporting. This is a principal-level role: you will shape strategy across multiple teams, create operating models for AI delivery at scale, and coach senior PMs while serving as a company-level evangelist for Drata’s AI-enabled product vision. What you'll do: Set and drive the Agentic AI vision - Define a multi-year, company-level Agentic AI strategy that spans Drata product lines and major initiatives, balancing bold bets with pragmatic, stepwise execution. - Translate that vision into clear portfolios, roadmaps, and investment frameworks for AI agents, copilots, and automation across GRC workflows. - Continuously scan the AI landscape (models, tool use, orchestrators, evaluation methods, safety approaches) and selectively bring agentic innovations into Drata in a way that’s durable, compliant, and value-creating for customers. - Build & execute on the AI platform strategy at Drata that will enable other teams to build AI features. Own outcomes for AI agents in production - Lead end-to-end product discovery and delivery for AI agents—from problem framing and agent design to deployment, guardrails, and post-launch optimization. - Define success metrics and evaluation frameworks for agents (e.g., task completion, latency, precision/recall, cost envelopes, human override rates) and drive rigorous experimentation to improve them. - Partner closely with Engineering and AI/ML leads on architecture, model selection, tool/plugin design, retrieval strategies, and constraints that keep agents safe, observable, and debuggable in production. Leverage MCP and the agentic ecosystem - Design and evolve MCP-based and related ecosystems of tools, actions, and data connectors that agents can use to take safe actions on behalf of customers. - Define patterns for agent orchestration (multi-agent vs. single-agent, planner-execu