Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism

WHAT YOU'LL DO DEFINE THE FUTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL REALISM Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for one of SimSpace's most strategic product portfolios. Determine how Environmental Realism evolves to support emerging AI-native security products, autonomous cyber agents, and increasingly sophisticated cyber operations. Balance customer needs, technical innovation, platform scalability, and long-term strategic differentiation.

Serve as the cross-functional leader for Environmental Realism, bringing together engineering, UX, cyber experts, range content teams, customer-facing organizations, and executive leadership around a common strategy. Drive alignment, facilitate difficult prioritization decisions, and ensure multiple teams execute as a coordinated portfolio rather than independent initiatives.

WORK ALONGSIDE INDUSTRY LEADERS Partner directly with: - Cybersecurity companies building the next generation of AI-native security products. - Enterprise security organizations adopting autonomous cyber capabilities. - Government agencies and military organizations preparing for the future of AI-enabled cyber operations. - Internal cyber experts, researchers, and engineers advancing the state of the art in cyber simulation.

Rather than reacting to market trends, you'll help define them. BUILD THE PLATFORM THAT BUILDS TRUST Guide the evolution of capabilities including: - Attack simulation and adversary behavior - User activity and traffic generation - Enterprise networks, operating systems, and application ecosystems - Simulated cloud, SaaS, and internet services - Reusable cyber environments - AI-assisted environment creation - Environmental automation and orchestration Every investment should answer one question: How do we create cyber environments realistic enough that customers trust the results produced inside them?

TURN EMERGING IDEAS INTO PRODUCTS Translate conversations with customers, partners, researchers, and engineering into product strategy and roadmap investments. Partner closely with engineering and UX to deliver platform capabilities that scale across every SimSpace solution while creating meaningful competitive advantage.

Represent SimSpace's Environmental Realism strategy with customers, analysts, and industry partners. WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE You'll be successful when: - Leading cybersecurity companies use SimSpace to build and improve agentic security solutions. - Government and military customers rely on SimSpace to evaluate operational readiness for AI-enabled cyber capabilities. - Customers choose SimSpace because our environments most closely reflect the complexity of real enterprise operations. - Environmental Realism becomes an even stronger competitive differentiator for SimSpace. - Your roadmap directly influences how the cybersecurity industry builds confidence in autonomous cyber systems.

What Are The Qualifications To Apply? To be successful as a Principal Product Manager, Environmental Realism, you need: - Minimum of 8 years of product management experience with a proven track record of delivering successful technical products, or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, platform engineering, simulation, security operations, or enterprise technology. - Demonstrated experience owning cyber products, platform products, infrastructure products, developer platforms, enterprise technical products, AI/ML platforms, cloud platforms, or other complex systems-oriented products. - Strong technical fluency and the ability to work directly with senior engineering leaders on architecture, platform design, APIs, data flows, integrations, scalability, reliability, security, and implementation tradeoffs. - Experience defining clear functional and non-functional requirements that enable engineering teams to understand the intended outcome, constraints, customer value, and success criteria. - Strategic product judgment, including the ability to connect technical platform investments to customer value, market differentiation, business outcomes, and long-term product direction. - Working knowledge of cybersecurity concepts related to attacks, adversary behavior, threat actors, threat emulation, detection, response, controls validation, and security operations. - Strong understanding of enterprise customer needs, technical buying dynamics, stakeholder management, and product discovery in complex B2B environments. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex platform, AI, and cybersecurity concepts into clear product strategy and customer value.

Preferred But Not Required - Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, autonomous agents, LLM applications, model evaluation, agent evaluation, GPU/CPU performance considerations, data pipelines, or AI development workflows. - Experience with platform technologies such as cloud infrastructure, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, hypervisors, APIs, distributed systems, developer experience, observability, or infrastructure automation. - Experience with cyber ranges, simulation environments, training platforms, security operations, threat emulation, adversary emulation, red team or blue team workflows, incident response, or controls validation. - Familiarity with security tools or concepts such as SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Nmap, Wireshark, or Splunk. - Experience building or scaling products that serve both technical operators and executive decision-makers. - Relevant certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, CEH, GCIH, PMP, PMC, or equivalent experience are helpful but not required.

We're proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success: - Compensation. Base salary range: $215,000 - $250,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions. - Health & Wellness.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans-coverage starts on day one! - Mental Health Support. Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health. - Financial Well-Being. Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match. - Flexible Time Off.

Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members. - Parental Leave. Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life's most important moments. - Ownership Opportunities: Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants-become an invested stakeholder in our shared success. - Referral Rewards: Earn $1,500-$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program. - Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals. - Continuous Learning: Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development. - Social Connections: Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community. - Extra Perks: Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life's details.

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire. SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients. Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications.

SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application! We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law.

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Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.