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# Director of Product Management, Platform at Cobalt

- **Company:** Cobalt
- **Location:** United States (East or Central)
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio/jobs/8904323002

## Job description

## Who We Are

Cobalt was founded on the belief of a fundamental human aspiration: the desire to live better and safer. It all started in 2013, when our founders realized that pentesting can be better. Today our diverse, fully remote team is committed to helping organizations of all sizes with seamless, effective and collaborative Offensive Security Testing that empower organizations to OPERATE FEARLESSLY and INNOVATE SECURELY.

Our customers can start a pentest in as little as 24 hours and integrate with advanced development cycles thanks to the powerful combination of our SaaS platform coupled with an exclusive community of testers known as the Cobalt Core. Accepting just 5% of applicants, the Cobalt Core boasts over 500 closely vetted and highly skilled testers who jointly conduct thousands of tests each year and are at the forefront of identifying and helping remediate risk across a dynamically changing attack surface.

Cobalt is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we strive to build a diverse and inclusive workforce at our company. At Cobalt we aspire to engage with diverse individuals, communities, and organizations in order to continue to nurture our unique rich diverse culture. Join our team, and be your true self to do your best work.

Description

Cobalt is hiring a Director of Product Management, Platform to own the product surfaces that connect our pentesting offerings to the rest of a customer's security and business stack, and that make those offerings easy to evaluate, configure, and scale. This is a newly created role on the Product leadership team, reporting to the VP of Product Management, with direct accountability for platform architecture decisions, the partner and integration ecosystem, pricing and packaging mechanics, access and permissions models, and the operational backbone (tooling, metrics, content) that the rest of Product relies on.

You will lead a team spanning Customer Experience, Product Operations, and Platform/Integrations PMs, and you will be the primary product partner to Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Security/Compliance stakeholders on anything that touches how customers connect to, configure, and pay for Cobalt. This is a high-visibility, build-and-scale role: you'll inherit a working integrations program (including a recently shipped Wiz integration) and a clear mandate to mature it into a defensible platform and ecosystem strategy.

## What You'll Own

- Platform & Integrations Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for Cobalt's integration ecosystem (e.g., SFDC, Slack/MS Teams, ticketing and automation tools), including build-vs-partner decisions and a prioritization framework tied to revenue and retention impact.
- Ecosystem & Partnerships: Own the product side of technology partnerships — API/webhook strategy, partner onboarding requirements, and joint roadmap alignment with strategic integration partners.
- Pricing & Packaging: Partner with Finance, Sales, and the VP of Product to design and evolve pricing and packaging across the tiered portfolio, including credits, contracts, and tier-based feature and integration entitlements.
- Roles, Permissions & Access (RBAC): Own the roadmap for role-based access control, authentication, and customer administration capabilities that meet enterprise security and compliance expectations.
- Customer Experience Alignment: Absorb and elevate the Customer Focus charter — customer journey, scoping and calculator experience, findings/reports, asset and engagement management, and customer-facing catalogue — ensuring platform decisions are grounded in real customer workflows.
- Product Operations Leadership: Oversee the operating rhythm of the Product org — roadmap cadence, QBRs, Product Hour, in-platform content (Pendo), technical publications, usage/experience metrics, and tooling/vendor contract management.
- Team Leadership: Manage and develop a team of PMs and product operations professionals; set goals, coach for growth, and represent the team's roadmap to the VP of Product and cross-functional leadership.
- Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with Engineering leads and Design to translate platform strategy into epics, acceptance criteria, and shippable releases, and with Customer Success/Sales to ensure GTM readiness for platform and integration launches.

What Success Looks Like in the First Year

- A published platform and integration roadmap, prioritized against a clear framework, with at least one new strategic integration shipped.
- A documented pricing/packaging model for tier-based feature and integration entitlements, adopted by Sales and Finance.
- An RBAC and permissions framework that closes known enterprise/compliance gaps and is referenceable in security reviews.
- A unified Product Operations cadence (roadmaps, QBR, Product Hour, usage metrics) running reliably across the org.
- A team of PMs operating with clear ownership, a healthy backlog discipline, and strong cross-functional trust with Engineering, Design, and GTM.

You Must Have

- 8+ years in product management, including 3+ years in a people-leadership role (Director, Group PM, or equivalent), ideally within B2B SaaS or cybersecurity.
- Demonstrated experience owning platform, integrations, or ecosystem products — defining build-vs-partner tradeoffs and shipping API/webhook-based integrations at scale.
- Direct experience with pricing and packaging design for a multi-tier or multi-product SaaS portfolio.
- Working knowledge of access control, authentication, and enterprise security/compliance requirements (RBAC, SSO, SAML/OIDC) as they apply to product design.
- A track record of leading product operations or platform functions that support an entire product organization (metrics, tooling, roadmap cadence), not just a single product line.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills — proven ability to align Engineering, Design, Sales, and Customer Success around a shared roadmap.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting strategy and tradeoffs to executive leadership.
- Bonus: experience in cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or pentesting/offensive security domains; familiarity with Salesforce, Jira/Confluence, and Pendo.

## Why You Should Join Us

- Grow in a passionate, rapidly expanding industry operating at the forefront of the Pentesting industry
- Work directly with experienced senior leaders with ongoing mentorship opportunities
- Earn competitive compensation and an attractive equity plan
- Save for the future with a 401(k) program (US) or pension (EU)
- Benefit from medical, dental, vision and life insurance (US) or statutory healthcare (EU)
- Leverage stipends for:
- Wellness
- Work-from-home equipment & wifi
- Learning & development
- Make the most of our flexible, generous paid time off and paid parental leave

Pay Range Disclosure (For US openings only)

Cobalt is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is ($183,000 - $230,000) + equity + benefits. A candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.  The salary range may differ in other states and may be impacted by proximity to major metropolitan cities.

Cobalt (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer, and we want the best available persons for every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws and providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

Cobalt is an E-Verify employer. E-Verify is an Internet-based system operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA). It allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees in the United States.

## About Cobalt

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cobalt provides a human-led, AI-powered Pentest as a Service (PtaaS) platform that enables organizations to conduct continuous offensive security testing across their attack surface.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed startup)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first, with Scandinavian roots and presence in US, UK, and Germany)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Martin Rannje and Christian Hansen (co-founders, per leadership page) [cobalt.io/team]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cybersecurity – specifically Penetration Testing as a Service (PtaaS) and offensive security.
- **Target customers**: B2B, ranging from SMB to enterprise, with a focus on development, security, and operations teams.
- **Mission**: To help organizations “operate fearlessly and innovate securely” by making security testing faster, simpler, and more transparent. [cobalt.io/about]

## Products & Services
- **Cobalt Platform (PTaaS)**: SaaS platform that pairs with a vetted community of pentesters to deliver on-demand penetration tests, starting in as little as 24 hours. Includes automated reconnaissance, AI-powered exploit intelligence, and integrations with ITSM, DevOps, and collaboration tools.
- **Offensive Security Services**: Penetration testing (web, mobile, network, cloud), Digital Risk Assessment (identifying publicly exposed information), and Secure Code Review.
- **Cobalt Core**: An exclusive community of over 400 highly vetted pentesters (acceptance rate ~5%) who conduct thousands of tests annually. Creates a talent marketplace for on-demand security expertise.

All offerings emphasize human expertise amplified by AI and a decade of proprietary exploit intelligence. [cobalt.io]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 1,500 customers served; platform delivers 2.6x faster time to report and gets customers to remediation 50% faster than traditional approaches.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in provided sources.
- **Growth Signals**: Fast-growing remote-first cybersecurity start-up; expanding globally with employees from 45+ nationalities; recognized as an award-winning “best workplace”; continuous product innovation in AI and automation. [cobalt.io/life][cobalt.io/about]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-Led, AI-Powered Pentesting**: Combines creative human testing (focusing on business logic abuse) with proprietary exploit intelligence AI to automate recon and isolate high-risk vulnerabilities faster.
- **Speed & Scale**: Start a pentest in 24 hours; 2.6x faster report turnaround; 50% faster remediation cycle.
- **Exclusive Talent Pool**: The Cobalt Core accepts only 5% of applicants, ensuring access to top-tier, vetted security experts.
- **Unified Platform**: Single pane of glass for managing findings, integrations with dev workflows, and continuous testing across the attack surface.

## Strategic Focus
- **Continuous Offensive Security**: Moving away from point-in-time testing to ongoing, proactive risk management.
- **AI Integration**: Leveraging over a decade of exploit data to continuously refine testing logic and improve automation.
- **Scaling the Community**: Expanding the Cobalt Core and platform to address global shortage of skilled security resources.
- **Customer Agility**: Empowering organizations to do more with less by integrating security testing into development cycles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Innovate Relentlessly,” “Lead with Grit,” “Quality at Speed and Scale,” and “One Cobalt.” Fully remote, remote-first with flexible PTO.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation + equity, medical/dental/life insurance (US), 401k matching, paid parental leave, monthly stipends for wellness, WFH office setup, WiFi, and learning & development.
- **Diversity**: 45+ nationalities; equal opportunity employer that values inclusion and diverse perspectives.
- **Team**: Work directly with experienced senior leaders in a rapidly growing PtaaS market; opportunity to “make your mark.” [cobalt.io/life][job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio]

## Sources
1. [Cobalt Homepage](https://www.cobalt.io)
2. [Careers at Cobalt (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/cobaltio)
3. [About Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/about)
4. [Life at Cobalt](https://www.cobalt.io/life)
5. [Leadership Team](https://www.cobalt.io/team)

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