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# Staff Product Manager at Twenty

- **Company:** Twenty
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $184k–$389k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/twenty/eb81a345-73ea-4f91-9918-8579b0e535df

## Job description

## ABOUT THE COMPANY

America is under sustained cyber attack. Our adversaries infiltrate our networks, steal our IP, and degrade the digital infrastructure that modern life runs on. They’ve learned—correctly—that those attacks rarely produce consequences.

Twenty was founded to change that, by making our adversaries think twice before they attack us. Our vision is American and allied primacy in cyberspace—a future where they cannot contest us, deterrence is assured, and the free world remains secure.

Founded in 2024, Twenty Technologies (www.twenty.io http://www.twenty.io) industrializes offensive cyber operations for the U.S. and its allies. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Twenty has raised $168M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Caffeinated Capital, Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, General Catalyst, and In-Q-Tel.

Mission | On Site | Full Time | U.S. Citizenship Required / No Active Clearance Required

## ROLE SUMMARY

This is a 0→1 product role for someone who can move from early user discovery through MVP launch and iteration. You will work closely with a small team of engineers, users, and executive leadership to define the marketplace experience, establish its foundational workflows, and determine how matching, trust, and participation should work at scale.

The problems are complex, the requirements will evolve, and there is no established playbook. Success will require strong product judgment, deep user empathy, and the ability to move fluidly between long-term strategy and hands-on execution.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own the product vision, strategy, and execution.
- Lead the product from initial discovery through MVP definition, launch, iteration, and scale.
- Conduct user interviews and ongoing discovery across a diverse set of marketplace participants.
- Develop a deep understanding of user workflows, incentives, constraints, and trust requirements.
- Design experiences that support both human users and automated participants.
- Define how marketplace participants discover opportunities, evaluate fit, establish trust, and engage with one another.
- Translate complex operational needs into clear product requirements, priorities, and roadmaps.
- Partner closely with a team of approximately three to five engineers to define scope, sequence delivery, and make sound technical and product tradeoffs.
- Lead or actively support sprint planning, backlog prioritization, acceptance criteria, and product reviews.
- Use real operational signals, user feedback, and product data to improve matching quality and marketplace performance.
- Balance near-term experimentation and delivery with the longer-term development of a scalable platform.
- Brief executive leadership on product strategy, progress, risks, tradeoffs, and key decisions.
- Create alignment across engineering, users, and leadership on what to build, why it matters, and what comes next.

## WHO YOU ARE

- You are energized by building products from the ground up, particularly when the problem and solution are not yet fully defined.
- You are motivated by understanding how users actually operate and translating those insights into intuitive, effective product experiences.
- You are comfortable conducting user interviews, identifying patterns, and making decisions when the available signal is incomplete.
- You know how to define a focused MVP, launch it quickly, and use real-world feedback to determine what comes next.
- You bring a pragmatic, outcomes-first approach and know when to prioritize speed, learning, trust, or long-term durability.
- You are comfortable working closely with a small engineering team and taking an active role in shaping requirements, sequencing work, and driving execution.
- You communicate clearly and directly, whether you are working with users, engineers, cross-functional partners, or executive leadership.
- You are at your best in small, high-trust teams with high standards and meaningful ownership.
- You are comfortable in high-speed, high-stakes environments and take the initiative to solve problems even when they fall outside your direct job responsibilities.

## MUST HAVE

- You have demonstrated experience taking a product or major capability from 0→1.
- You have experience as a Product Manager with meaningful ownership across both product strategy and execution.
- You have strong user interview, discovery, and synthesis skills.
- You have defined and launched MVPs, using early feedback and product signals to guide iteration.
- You have a deep understanding of user experience, user workflows, and how product decisions shape behavior.
- You have worked closely with technical leads and engineers to scope, prioritize, and sequence product development.
- You can operate effectively with a small engineering team and provide the clarity needed to keep execution moving.
- You have strong product judgment and can make decisions in ambiguous or low-signal environments.
- You can communicate complex product decisions clearly to both technical teams and executive leadership.

## NICE TO HAVE

- You have experience leading product development sprints and maintaining strong acceptance criteria.
- You have built marketplace, platform, matching, or multi-sided network products.
- You have experience designing products that require trust, transparency, identity, reputation, or access controls.
- You have built products serving multiple participant types with different workflows and incentives.
- You have built or managed AI-driven or agentic products.
- You have experience designing products used by both humans and automated systems.
- You have worked in government, defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, or similarly mission-driven environments.

## TECH ENVIRONMENT (YOU MIGHT WORK WITH)

- You might work with products that use operational data and behavioral signals to improve matching and decision-making.
- You might work alongside teams building AI-driven or agentic participants and workflows.
- You might work with identity, permissions, reputation, and trust systems designed for sensitive environments.
- You might work with backend-heavy platforms supporting complex transactions and participant workflows.
- You might work in environments where security, reliability, transparency, and operational usability matter as much as feature velocity.

## Benefits

What's on the table:

- Health. Medical, dental, and vision plan options. Life / AD&D, disability coverage options.
- Family. Paid parental leave for eligible full-time employees. 12 weeks for birthing parents, 4 for non-birthing parents, 6 weeks for adoptive, foster, or intended parents through surrogacy.
- Vacation. Paid holidays and flexible PTO. Take what you need.
- Retirement. 401(k) with pre-tax and Roth options. HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA.

Benefits vary by location, role, and eligibility. Full plan details provided during the interview and offer process.

If this role sounds like you, apply and share with us your interest

Due to U.S. government contract and security requirements, this role is limited to U.S. citizens. Some positions may also require eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance. Any active clearance requirement will be listed in the role description.

Twenty is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected status, consistent with applicable law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process, let us know and we will work with you.

## About Twenty

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Twenty builds and scales the software and capabilities of modern cyber conflict, industrializing the American arsenal for the war of now.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; $138M total funding as of June 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Arlington, Virginia, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Joe Lin (CEO), Peter S., Skyler O.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cyber warfare and national security (Computer and Network Security)
- **Target customers**: U.S. military and Intelligence Community (B2G)
- **Mission**: Deliver industrial-scale cyber capabilities, ensuring the U.S. and its allies are able to deter and defeat their adversaries [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/).

## Products & Services
- **Cyber Warfare Platform**: Intelligent, autonomous end-to-end systems that accelerate the entire offensive cyber operations lifecycle. Encodes elite tradecraft directly into software, transforming workflows that once took weeks of manual effort into automated, continuous operations across hundreds of targets simultaneously. [twenty.io](https://twenty.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $138M (as of June 2026), including a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital in November 2025 and a subsequent $100M round in June 2026 [aventure.vc](https://aventure.vc/companies/twenty-arlington-va-us) [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twenty-raises-38m-to-transform-cyber-warfare-at-industrial-scale-302622230.html)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Caffeinated Capital, General Catalyst, In-Q-Tel, Accel, Point72 Ventures, Friends & Family Capital [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 245% YoY, reaching ~50 employees; 34+ active job postings as of July 2026; emerged from stealth in November 2025 with over $100M in government contracts [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/twentytechnologies) [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twenty-raises-38m-to-transform-cyber-warfare-at-industrial-scale-302622230.html)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Elite team**: Composed of the top 0.1% of cyber operators (from USCYBERCOM, NSA, DHS, U.S. Marine Corps, Navy, Army) and proven builders (from Palantir, Palo Alto Networks, Expanse) [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Proven track record**: The founding team built the most successful SaaS cyber product in U.S. military history and defended tens of thousands of networks [twenty.io](https://twenty.io/)
- **100X improvement**: Industrial-scale automation replaces manual, bespoke methods, fundamentally reshaping how the U.S. and allies engage in cyber conflict [twenty.io](https://twenty.io/)
- **Strategic backing**: Supported by top defense-tech VCs and In-Q-Tel (the CIA’s venture arm)

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating the delivery of intelligent, autonomous cyber warfare systems to close critical gaps in U.S. offensive capabilities
- Countering adversaries such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the cyber domain
- Expanding partnerships across the U.S. military and Intelligence Community, with deployments already in active combat operations [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twenty-raises-38m-to-transform-cyber-warfare-at-industrial-scale-302622230.html)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Your code directly affects mission success or failure — “the difference between mission success and mission failure” [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Elite peer group**: Work alongside top 0.1% cyber operators and world-class technologists
- **Rapid growth**: 245% headcount increase YoY; 39 open roles across engineering, product, finance, growth, and talent [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Culture**: “Serious work, savage wit, zero excuses.” Emphasis on solving “crazy-hard problems” that nation-state adversaries face. “No one is coming to save us, so we’d better do it ourselves.” [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Primarily on-site at secure locations (Arlington, VA HQ; Fort Meade, MD; San Antonio, TX; Augusta, GA). Most roles require relocation to the Washington, DC area or other government facilities. [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the focus is on building revolutionary capabilities for national security rather than typical engagement metrics.

## Sources
1. [twenty.io](https://twenty.io/)
2. [twenty.io/careers](https://twenty.io/careers/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/twentytechnologies)
4. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twenty-raises-38m-to-transform-cyber-warfare-at-industrial-scale-302622230.html)
5. [aventure.vc](https://aventure.vc/companies/twenty-arlington-va-us)

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