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title: 'Product Manager at Reality Defender'
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# Product Manager at Reality Defender

- **Company:** Reality Defender
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender/e76daee9-5a78-4917-b660-4817dc64fb7b

## Job description

Who we are. Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time. Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes. Youtube: Reality Defender Wins RSA Most Innovative Startup The Product Manager Role. Reality Defender is looking for a Product Manager to turn world-class detection research into products that security, fraud, and identity teams can deploy and trust. You'll own the roadmap for our API-first detection platform — the APIs, SDKs, web app, and integrations that put our models into call centers, video meetings, onboarding flows, and content pipelines — working hand-in-hand with AI Research, Engineering, and our go-to-market team. This is a full-time role based at our NYC headquarters, reporting to VP of Product. Responsibilities include:

- Own the product roadmap for one of our deepfake detection products, prioritizing across customer needs, emerging deepfake threats, and technical feasibility — and making the tradeoffs explicit.
- Translate what enterprise and government customers need into clear requirements and shipped features.
- Partner with AI Research and the Red Team to turn model improvements and new threat findings into customer-facing capabilities, with clear success metrics for accuracy, latency, and adoption.
- Define and track the product metrics that matter (usage, activation, retention, detection performance in the field), and use them to decide what to build next.
- Support Sales and Solutions Engineering in strategic deals, security reviews, and customer validations, bringing product insight back to the roadmap.
- Partner with Marketing on positioning, launches, and competitive differentiation in a fast-moving category.
- Work with Engineering and Partnerships on platform integrations with communications, identity, and collaboration platforms.
- Help bring product requirements into compliance and procurement conversations with regulated and public-sector buyers.

Who you are.

- 4+ years of product management experience, ideally on a technical B2B product such as an API, developer platform, or security tool.
- A track record of shipping ML or AI products, with enough technical fluency to work credibly with researchers and engineers on model tradeoffs (accuracy, false positives, latency, cost).
- Experience selling into or building for enterprise buyers, and comfort in customer conversations with technical and executive stakeholders.
- Strong product judgment: you can set priorities with incomplete information, say no clearly, and explain why.
- Excellent written communication — your specs, roadmaps, and updates are clear enough that people across the company act on them without a follow-up meeting.
- Experience in cybersecurity, fraud prevention, identity verification, or trust & safety. (nice to have)
- Familiarity with audio, video, or real-time communications technology (telephony, WebRTC, conferencing platforms). (nice to have)
- Experience selling to government or highly regulated customers, or at a Series A/B startup where scope regularly outpaces headcount. (nice to have)

Within 12 months, you'll…

- Own a roadmap that measurably drives revenue, retention, and expansion.
- Have built a product development rhythm (discovery, prioritization, launch, measurement) that the broader team relies on.
- Be recognized internally and by key customers as the go-to owner for your product area.
- Be identifying the next set of product opportunities as the deepfake threat landscape evolves.

What we offer. Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

- Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

- Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
- Commuter benefits
- Remote Fridays
- Happy Hours and other local events

Base salary range: $150,000-$180,000, based on experience and level. Includes equity.

## About Reality Defender

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Reality Defender is a deepfake detection platform that protects enterprises and governments from real-time AI-generated media fraud across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ben Colman (CEO), Gaurav Bharaj, Ali Shahriyari

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Computer and Network Security / Deepfake Detection
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, financial institutions, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators
- **Mission**: Become the de facto AI detection standard for large organizations, ensuring trust in an AI-enabled world by providing real-time detection of synthetic media.

## Products & Services
- **Reality Defender API & SDKs**: Award-winning AI models for detecting deepfakes and AI-manipulated media across audio, video, and images. Free tier available for developers.
- **Contact Center Security**: Real-time detection of deepfake impersonations during calls to prevent fraud.
- **Secure Video Conferencing**: Protects video meetings from synthetic media injection and impersonation.
- **Access Security & Fraud Prevention**: Identity verification and user authentication with deepfake detection.
- **Brand & Executive Protection**: Monitors and detects impersonation of executives and brands across channels.
- **Government Solutions**: Tailored detection layers for high-risk environments, including defense and intelligence.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (total funding $48.6M)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue $4.5M (estimated); total funding $48.6M across 9 rounds (Series A $33M led by Illuminate Financial, Oct 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Illuminate Financial (lead Series A), Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, SXSW (grant), JPMorgan (Hall of Innovation), World Economic Forum (Technology Pioneer), USA DIU + Japan MOD (Global Innovation Challenge winner)
- **Growth Signals**: 63 employees (+26.9% YoY); recognized as market leader by Gartner (2025); won RSA Conference “Most Innovative Startup” (2024); inducted into JPMorgan Hall of Innovation (2025); operates in 8 countries.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ensemble detection engine**: Uses hundreds of simultaneous, platform-agnostic techniques to detect the widest array of synthetic content.
- **Multi-modal coverage**: Real-time detection across voice, video, image, and text.
- **Enterprise-grade scale**: Deploy-anywhere solutions integrated into existing workflows (calls, meetings, identity systems).
- **Bleeding edge resilience**: Models are continuously blended, tested, and updated to anticipate new generative AI threats.
- **Strong partnerships and trust**: Advisory council includes former CIA, Google Privacy Officer, and military leaders; clients include financial institutions and government agencies.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scaling enterprise adoption, expanding into new verticals (finance, government), deepening real-time detection capabilities, and building the “Enterprise Authenticity Layer” for critical communications.
- **Growth direction**: Becoming the standard for deepfake detection in large organizations, investing in research (publications on audio and video detection), and growing the team (10 open positions as of mid-2026).

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on cutting-edge AI security that directly protects people, institutions, and democratic trust.
- **Culture**: Values of integrity, continuous innovation, cross-functionality, impact, and inclusion. Emphasizes transparency and rigorous testing.
- **Work environment**: Collaborative in-office environment in historic Tribeca, New York City. Team of builders, researchers, and realists.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health and wellness benefits, generous employee perks, and investment in professional growth.
- **Engineering culture**: Bleeding-edge AI research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to publish and contribute to the field.

## Sources
1. [realitydefender.com/company](https://www.realitydefender.com/company)
2. [realitydefender.com/](https://www.realitydefender.com/)
3. [realitydefender.com/careers](https://www.realitydefender.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/reality-defender](https://www.linkedin.com/company/reality-defender)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/realitydefender)

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