Akeyless-Technical Product Manager

About The Position

Akeyless, the Secrets Management company, operates in the DevOps & DevSecOps worldwide transformation, backed by top investors and led by a seasoned & success-oriented team. Akeyless Vault Platform provides a set of breakthrough products in the realm of Secrets Management, Secure Remote Access & Data Protection.

Headquartered in Tel Aviv, a business office in the US. We are looking for a talented Technical Product Manager to take a significant role in our product research and development sprints of the Akeyless Vault platform.

The ideal Technical Product Manager would have a unique combination of:

(1) The mindset of a System Architect / DevOps Engineer (Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud)

(2) Familiarity with Security infrastructure (IDM, Zero Trust, Identity Providers, PAM, PKI)

(3) Passion about innovation and her/his contribution to making inspiring products

If you answer the above – your place is with us!

Responsibilities

1. Own The Competition

• Perform hands-on installation & research to produce constant competitive analysis
• Answer inquiries from Sales engineers and Marketing content writers
• Inspire Engineering teams by regularly communicating competitors’ features, functions, and benefits

2. Own Product Quality

• Maintain outstanding product documentation, either on your own or later in cooperation with technical writers. Compare docs with competitors.
• Improve product engagement by suggesting self-explanatory features as well as producing coherent docs and tutorials where needed Proprietary and Confidential –
• Ensure that customers’ requests and product enhancements fully meet their expectations by communicating them to engineering teams (mockups, specs) and performing hands-on user-level tests post-development.

3. Maintain & Execute Product Pipeline

• Collect product requirements by understanding market trends, opportunities, and competitors developments as well as customer needs
• Plan & well communicate product enhancements via mockups and specs.

4. Support the Product Marketing Efforts

• Educate content writers about new features and functions
• Suggest new content, blogs & webinars

Requirements:

• Technologist in heart, hands on-tech savvy: loves learning and getting to know technologies, products, and new tools, new infrastructure, and even open-source projects
• Software development background for at least three years – Must
• Experience as a System Architect / DevOps engineer / Professional Services Architect, with hands-on experience with Linux for at least two years – Must
• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud services, IAM – Huge advantage
• Background in Information Security / Cloud Security space, at least with one of the followings: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged access management (PAM), Certificates Management & PKI infrastructure, KMS, HSM, SSH Management, Single Sign-On (SSO), Credentials Management – Huge advantage
• Excellent communication skills – team player
• Startup mentality: high pace, dynamically changing tasks and priorities, passionate about innovation AND her/his contribution to making inspire products