About CyberNut
CyberNut is the #1 security awareness training platform built for K-12 schools. We protect over 1.4 million students and 400,000+ faculty and staff across 400+ school districts with phishing simulations, gamified microtraining, a browser extension, and real-time threat detection. We are growing fast, and we are building a product organization to match.
About the role
This role owns CyberNut's security product end to end: active threat triage and remediation, compromised-account detection and containment, email security gateway capabilities, and the integrations that connect them to the back-office tools districts already run. We are investing in moving from awareness training into real detection and response, and you are the senior PM who builds that.
This is a product management role rebuilt for the AI era. Advances in AI prototyping have collapsed the distance between an idea and a working product, and we expect our PMs to live in that space. You will not just write requirements and wait, you will build. Using Claude and other AI prototyping and code-generation tools, you will produce working, interactive prototypes that are 70 to 80% of the way to the final experience, close enough that our UI/UX design team can take them the rest of the way into a polished, production-ready product.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role with no direct reports. You operate as a genuine peer to the VP of Product and the other senior PM, and part of your job is to challenge how problems are framed before they reach engineering, including your own framing. You will talk to IT directors and security staff directly, decide what gets built and why, prototype it yourself, and ship it with a lean engineering team and design. You do not need a K-12 background, but you do need the curiosity to learn fast how districts actually buy, staff, and operate, because a technically clean feature that ignores that context will miss. If you see AI prototyping as someone else's job, this is the wrong job. If you want to own a security product with room to define where it goes, keep reading.
What you will do
Own the product direction for the security product, from validated problem statement through design, execution, and launch.
Run customer discovery with district IT and security staff on a regular cadence, and turn what you hear into an evidence-backed roadmap for threat remediation, account-takeover protection, and email security.
Build interactive prototypes, fast, with Claude and other AI prototyping tools, and hand them off 70 to 80% complete with the research, call recordings, and reasoning behind them, so design refines rather than reverse-engineers.
Drive the expansion of CyberNut's detection and response capability: reported-threat workflows, auto-remediation, compromised-account containment, and email security gateway functionality.
Drive prioritization with discipline, and defend those calls with evidence when sales, customers, or leadership push, especially on competitive deals.
Write the problem statements and PRDs that carry work through our gated product process (intake, development readiness, prioritization, go/no-go, launch).
Partner with engineering to stress-test feasibility, scope, and trade-offs, and dig into detection logic, data-model, integration, and reporting questions, knowing when an answer does not add up.
Support enterprise and large-district deals: respond to security and compliance questionnaires, scope what is realistic, and feed real prospect needs back into the roadmap without letting a single deal hijack it.
Define and track the metrics that tell you whether what you shipped actually reduced risk for customers.
What we are looking for
Required
5+ years in product management, with senior or lead-level ownership of a product or major area in CyberSecurity/Email Security B2B SaaS.
Cybersecurity/Email Security SaaS experience: phishing, email security, threat remediation, account takeover, or detection and response. This is the core of the role.
Demonstrated fluency with AI prototyping. You can show us working prototypes you have personally built with Claude or comparable AI tools. A portfolio of what you have made matters more than résumé bullet points.
A track record of doing your own customer discovery, not outsourcing it.
Enough technical fluency to reason about detection logic, data models, integrations, and reporting with engineers.
Strong product judgment and the backbone to push back on stakeholders, including sales and executives, with evidence rather than opinion.
The curiosity and speed to absorb the K-12 customer context: how districts buy, how thin their IT teams are, and what FERPA and state security reviews demand.
Clear, fast writing, and the temperament to thrive in a remote, fast-moving startup with little hand-holding.
K-12 experience is not required for this role and will not be a deciding factor. We bring the K-12 context; you bring the security depth and the curiosity to learn the environment fast.
Strongly preferred
Experience with email security gateway, secure email, or anti-phishing products at the detection-and-response layer.
Experience shipping products with AI features embedded in them, including evaluating model output, handling hallucination and data-privacy risk, and knowing when AI is the wrong solution.
Experience with integrations into mail platforms (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365) or back-office and identity tooling.
Experience supporting enterprise sales motions and security review processes.
B2B SaaS experience selling into education or public sector.
Why CyberNut
Own a real product domain at a fast-growing company protecting students, teachers, and schools from real threats.
A small, senior, high-trust product team. We hire for depth, not headcount.
A genuinely AI-forward way of working: you build, you do not just spec.
Remote-first and flexible.
Travel
Limited travel, with likely attendance at one company offsite and one to two conferences annually.
Benefits
Includes access to the company's group health, dental, and vision insurance plans, basic life insurance, 18 days PTO, and 8 paid holidays.
Compensation Range: $100K - $150K
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