Senior Product Manager, Internet Map

Company Background

At Censys, we know the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Censys stands at the forefront of internet and cloud expertise, empowering customers through our Attack Surface Management solutions. We offer a unique attacker-centric perspective, providing a comprehensive view of external internet and cloud assets to prioritize and mitigate critical risk exposures effectively. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database ensure customers have continuously updated attack surface insights. Enterprises rely on Censys to stay ahead of cyber threats and proactively safeguard against attacks, driving tangible impact in the digital landscape.

Location 

This is a hybrid role based in one of our four hubs: Ann Arbor, MI / Los Altos, CA / Kirkland, WA / Tysons Corner, VA

Role Summary

We are looking for a strategic and technically adept Senior Data Product Manager to drive the evolution of our Internet Map. This role requires a deep understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and the intelligence workflows that power threat hunting, incident response, and supplier intelligence. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with product leadership to shape the future of global internet visibility and security intelligence.

This is a technical product and a technical role, which will require someone who has worked in cybersecurity either in a product role or as a security practitioner, researcher, or engineering role.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive the roadmap for Censys’s Internet Map, ensuring it aligns with customer needs, security workflows, and emerging threats by understanding and communicating the problem of our users and customers. 
• Leverage deep technical knowledge of network protocols and internet infrastructure to drive improvements in data collection, enrichment, and accessibility in collaboration with engineering, data science, and the Research team. This includes:
  • Defining what to scan for based on security relevance, customer needs, and emerging threat landscapes, working closely with Research and engineering teams to refine prioritization.
  • Refining detection logic for internet assets in partnership with data science and engineering Research teams to improve the accuracy and classification of scanned data.
  • Prioritizing high-impact infrastructure elements, such as exposed services, misconfigured cloud resources, and critical internet-facing assets, in alignment with data science insights and real-world attack surface risks.
  • Improving scanning by collaborating with engineering to enhance coverage, reduce noise, and ensure high-fidelity insights while maintaining efficiency at scale.
  • Contextualizing identified infrastructure with the Research and data science teams by incorporating security-relevant attributes, such as:
    • Ownership (e.g., mapping assets to organizations or providers).
    • Risk categorization (e.g., identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or risky behaviors).
    • Behavioral insights (e.g., tracking changes over time to detect anomalies or security shifts).
• Surfacing key insights and patterns to inform the strategy, and product roadmap. 
• Building a deep understanding of competitive and emergent solutions to inform gap analysis and product roadmap decisions. 
• Communicating product roadmap to external and internal stakeholders. 
• Defining, sequencing, and prioritizing the product backlog into discrete milestones that enable R&D to continuously develop and deliver incremental customer value on the path to releasing an MVP.
• Identifying risks before they become critical blockers by closely working with teams to build a technical understanding of the solution’s limitations. 
• Developing positioning & messaging with Product Marketing Manager counterparts to enable Go-To-Market teams to emphasize value and differentiate in the selling cycle. 
• Setting success metrics and tracking metrics post-launch to guide investment in iterative improvements.

What You’ll Bring

• 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of experience and education, in a product role and/or on a security team (e.g., SOC, threat analyst, vulnerability testing).
• Strong technical knowledge of network protocols and Internet infrastructure including TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, DNS, WHOIS, certificates, TLS, BGP, protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, RDP, and Cloud Services.
• Understanding and familiarity with security best practices and threat hunting, incident response, and supplier intelligence workflows.
• Recognized as a thought leader internally and externally. 
• Ability to drive clarity in an area through strong verbal and written communication. 
• Able to present at all skill levels of the company. 
• Appropriately influences and persuades others to a course of action without formal authority.

Bonus Points

• Experience developing SaaS applications or cloud solutions, or experience developing API or Data products, ideally for cyber security.
• Experience operating in an Agile development environment.
• Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment where changes happen quickly.
• Contribute to our culture of learning. Take ownership of issues, admit mistakes, and work to improve over time.
• Make informed decisions by combining empirical evidence with domain expertise and good judgment.
• Operate and contribute effectively as part of a team where we work together to solve problems.
• Previous experience in threat-hunting roles or product roles targeted at threat-hunters is a plus.

Our target salary range for this role is between $151,000 USD and $200,000 USD + bonus eligibility and equity.

In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more! Please see our careers page for more details.

Our roots are in Ann Arbor, Michigan with location hubs in Seattle, the Bay Area, and Tysons, VA. Our innovation is fueled by the team’s global perspectives. For this role, we are looking for candidates based in one of our four hub locations: Seattle, WA, Los Altos, CA, Tysons, VA, or Ann Arbor, MI and you will be required to go into the office Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third day of choice.