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title: 'Group Product Manager at C1'
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# Group Product Manager at C1

- **Company:** C1
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/c1/6e2aecbd-04fe-4f10-9002-dc89ec9f4f8b

## Job description

C1.ai http://C1.ai is the universal control plane that powers the agentic enterprise.

Every organization runs on hundreds of systems that need to answer the same basic question: who can do what, when, and why?

We're building something foundational: a horizontal control plane that lets both humans and AI agents plug in to navigate the AI-enabled enterprise, to understand who and what has access, and manage it safely as agents take on more of the work. SaaS apps, infrastructure, internal tools, AI agents…if it has a concept of 'who,' it should connect to us.

While we are still small in number, we move fast. If you want to help build this from the ground up, you'll have real ownership here.

## THE ROLE

We're looking for a Group Product Manager to help define the future of identity security. You'll own significant areas of the product, working closely with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and our customers to identify problems worth solving and deliver solutions that create measurable customer value.

This is a high-ownership role. You'll drive products from discovery through launch and iteration, balancing customer needs, technical complexity, and business priorities. You'll spend as much time talking to customers as you do working with engineers, ensuring we're building the right things and shipping them quickly.

AI is fundamentally changing how software is built and how identity is managed. We're looking for a product manager who natively uses AI to improve product discovery, customer research, roadmap planning, and execution, while also helping define how AI becomes a core part of our platform.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Own product strategy: Define vision, strategy, and roadmaps for key areas of the platform, ensuring investments align with customer needs and company priorities.
- Drive product execution: Partner closely with Engineering and Design to take products from concept to launch, making thoughtful tradeoffs while maintaining a high quality bar.
- Talk to customers constantly: Build deep customer empathy through interviews, support conversations, design partnerships, and product usage analysis to identify opportunities with meaningful business impact.
- Define success: Establish clear product goals and success metrics, measure outcomes, and continuously iterate based on customer feedback and data.
- Lead cross-functional alignment: Bring together Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and executive leadership around product direction and execution.
- Build with AI: Leverage AI throughout the product development lifecycle—from customer research and competitive analysis to specification writing and roadmap planning—and help shape AI-powered capabilities within our product.
- Raise the bar: Continuously improve how Product works by refining planning processes, product quality, customer feedback loops, and execution speed.

## WHAT WE LOOK FOR

## YOU LIKELY HAVE

- Experience taking a product from 0 to GA in a category without an established playbook where you've had to define the problem space yourself, not just execute against one someone else scoped.
- 7+ years of Product Management experience shipping successful B2B SaaS products.
- Experience using AI tools as part of your daily product workflow, with enthusiasm for applying AI to both product development and customer experiences.
- Exceptional customer empathy and a passion for understanding workflows, pain points, and opportunities.
- Excellent analytical skills and comfort using quantitative and qualitative data to guide decisions.
- A highly collaborative working style—you enjoy partnering with Engineering and Design to solve difficult problems together.
- High agency and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments.

## YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE

- Experience in identity, security, infrastructure, developer tools, or IT admin products.
- Experience working closely with enterprise customers and translating complex requirements into elegant product experiences.
- Experience leading products through periods of rapid company growth.

## Compensation & benefits

Salary range: $200k – $250k

- Meaningful equity
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- In-office in Portland, San Francisco, or New York
- Solid benefits across the board

Hiring philosophy

We care about both excellence and grit. You don’t need to check every single box to apply—if this feels like the kind of place you want to build, we’d like to hear from you.

c1.ai http://c1.ai is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

## About C1

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: C1 provides a unified identity and access governance platform designed to secure and manage access for humans, workloads, and AI agents in the modern enterprise.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Cybersecurity, AI Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and Mid-Market organizations undergoing AI transformation
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower organizations to adopt AI securely and at speed by delivering the right access and context to every human, workload, and agent.

## Products & Services
- **C1 Platform**: A unified identity and access governance platform that manages access for humans, services, and AI agents. It provides a universal identity graph, real-time activity monitoring, policy-as-code guardrails, and just-in-time access. The platform is designed to be "headless" and exposes all capabilities via API, MCP, CLI, and Terraform, allowing it to be integrated into any tech stack.
- **AI Access Management**: A specific module for governing access for AI agents and tools across data, cloud apps, and infrastructure. It includes self-service MCP access, identity-aware gateways, and support for custom and on-prem MCPs.
- **Intelligent Access Reviews**: AI-driven, risk-based access reviews to automate and streamline compliance.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $111M (as of Series B in November 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Greycroft (lead, Series B), Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike, Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital, Active Capital.
- **Growth Signals**: Raised a $79M Series B in November 2025, signaling strong investor confidence and a focus on scaling the platform for the "agentic era." The company is actively hiring across engineering, sales, and operations roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover in AI Identity**: C1 is specifically built for the "agentic era," managing access for AI agents and tools alongside human users, which is a nascent but rapidly growing market.
- **Headless & API-First Architecture**: Unlike traditional IAM tools, C1 is built as a "headless identity infrastructure," exposing all capabilities via API, MCP, CLI, and Terraform. This makes it highly flexible and embeddable for engineering teams.
- **AI-Native Platform**: The platform itself uses AI to drive governance workflows, access reviews, and policy creation, making it faster and more scalable than legacy IAM solutions.
- **Strong Investor Backing**: Backed by top-tier VCs (Accel, Greycroft, Felicis) and a strategic investor in CrowdStrike, providing both capital and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic Identity**: C1 is doubling down on the "agentic era," building the infrastructure to govern access for non-human identities (AI agents, services, API keys) which is a key growth area.
- **Platform Expansion**: Moving beyond traditional IAM to become the "access and context delivery layer" for the entire enterprise, integrating deeply with AI tools and workflows.
- **Go-to-Market**: Scaling sales and channel partnerships (hiring Channel Account Managers) to capture enterprise customers undergoing AI transformation.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: As a well-funded Series B startup ($111M total), C1 offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge problems at the intersection of AI and security.
- **Mission-Driven Work**: Employees contribute to building the infrastructure for the "agentic era," a highly relevant and impactful space.
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes empathy, authenticity, and collaboration. It has been recognized by Newsweek as one of "America's Greatest Workplaces 2024" and received a Platinum Bell Seal for workplace mental health.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive benefits include health coverage, a 401(k) plan with a 35% match up to 10%, 17 days PTO in the first year, paid parental leave, fertility coverage, and flexible work hours.
- **Work Model**: Offers virtual office opportunities and flexible work hours.
- **Engineering Culture**: The platform is built for engineers, with a strong emphasis on API-first, headless architecture, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CLI). This suggests a deep technical culture.

## Sources
1. [c1.ai](https://www.c1.ai)
2. [c1.ai/platform-overview](https://www.c1.ai/platform-overview)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/c1-ai)
4. [onec1.com/careers](https://www.onec1.com/careers)
5. [careers-c1.icims.com](https://careers-c1.icims.com/)

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