Senior/Staff Product Manager

About Semgrep
Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Vanta, Lyft, and Dropbox. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the role
We’re looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Senior/Staff Product Manager to join our small, but mighty Product team. Together, we’ll collaborate and build world-class developer-focused product experiences in a creative and iterative environment.

As an early member of our team, you’ll help up-level our Application Security platform, delighting our existing customers and helping us expand into new market segments. Through Semgrep's culture of impact and customer obsession, you’ll see and influence the decisions that lead to the enduring success of a high-growth startup. Your contributions and decisions will affect every aspect of what we build and do.

Prior experience leading a product area in a fast-paced environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your problem solving skills and desire to iterate quickly than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

Location expectations:

This role is based in San Francisco and is hybrid; we require a minimum of 2 days a week in our SF office.

What you’ll do

Entirely own a product area and its vision and strategy, and be responsible for its success in generating value to users and to the business

Be responsible for the commercial success of your product area

Engage deeply with customers and prospects to understand users’ problems and help shape and prioritize roadmap

Collaborate with Product Marketing to establish the positioning and messaging of your product area

Partner with Customer Success and Product Marketing to manage product releases and prioritize resulting feedback

Partner with Engineering and Product Design to help ensure product excellence

Manage projects through the life-cycle of ideation, discovery, execution, launch and iteration

Use quantitative and qualitative data to track the success of your product area and identify opportunities for improvement

Help shape the culture of our fast-growing product team

You are ideal for this role if you have

5+ years of PM experience, managing software products from inception through launch and iteration

Experience owning a product line end-to-end and being accountable for the product’s success

Experience building products for engineering personas

Experience transforming complex user needs into pragmatic product solutions

Experience at a growth-stage company, or the demonstrated ability to iterate quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Experience working cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales and Customer Success

Preferred: prior experience as an engineer or the ability to code, however rusty

Compensation
Salary Range: $160,000 - $237,000

Our compensation package includes equity and benefi…