The posting
Join the team, turning internet intelligence into real-world security outcomes. Built on the world’s most comprehensive and accurate map of the Internet, the Censys Platform delivers real-time visibility and actionable intelligence needed to accelerate triage, investigate threats, hunt adversaries, and manage Internet exposure. We're trusted by half of the Fortune 500 and government agencies all around the world, and looking for people as passionate about the problems we're solving as we are.
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to scale execution of the Censys Internet Map: the most continuously updated view of every asset, port, service, and certificate we can find across the public internet. Building it means running one of the largest internet-wide scanning operations in the world - 400+ Protocols providing access to 3Trillion+ scans in our APIs, 10PetaBytes+ of historical data, scanning 250Million+ IPs across 65K ports daily, resolving 8Billion+ names every 24 hours and tracking DNS at scale, tracking 18B+ certificates, fingerprinting 100K+ technologies behind what we find, enriching all of it with human readable labels, and third-party context so it becomes actionable intelligence rather than raw data.
This role is anchored in disciplined delivery, translating complex coverage and enrichment priorities into requirements engineering can build against. You'll define business and customer priorities, run the delivery cadence, and keep engineering and cross-functional stakeholders aligned on what's shipping and why it matters.
What You’ll Do
Internet Map Execution: You will define the business and customer priorities behind what goes into the Internet Map and how it stays best-in-class. This is the lever that enables Censys to be successful across every product and every segment we operate in.
- Coverage: How do we grow the map, how often we refresh it, and how comprehensively? This spans expanding IPv4/IPv6 scan scope, adding and prioritizing ports and protocols, increasing scan and DNS resolution frequency, and improving certificate and host discovery. You'll define this data collection work as detailed engineering requirements and acceptance criteria, and track coverage against baselines to identify and close gaps.
- Context: How do we enrich data into actionable intelligence? You'll define enrichment priorities based on customer and product needs: technology fingerprinting, risk scoring, and third-party data integrations. This includes evaluating external/third-party data sources for accuracy, coverage, and cost; defining the metrics used to judge data and enrichment quality; defining the schema that structures how coverage and context data is represented; and writing the documentation that makes both understandable and usable internally and externally.
Cross-Team Alignment and Execution:
- Drive cross-functional data prioritization across the Censys suite and provide business priority input into sequencing for new protocols and enrichments, ensuring data investments align with company goals, resolve multi-product conflicts, and provide roadmap transparency to other product managers and EMs.
- Engineering partnership and data quality: You ensure Engineering teams working on scanning infrastructure, data pipelines, and enrichment systems have well-defined requirements, clear acceptance criteria, and the context they need to make good architectural decisions. Track coverage and context quality against baselines. Identify gaps between current state and target, and translate findings into concrete engineering work to close them.
- Cross-functional enablement: Peer product teams (Exposure Management, Security Operations, Critical Infrastructure, Platform) and GTM (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) build on and sell your data. Keep both audiences current on what's shipping, what's changing, and what's coming next, through regular updates, enablement sessions, and technical documentation.
Skills & Experience
- 5+ years product management experience in full-scale data platforms, cybersecurity, or intelligence products
- 5+ years working in cybersecurity with deep experience working on products focused on the IP, DNS, and routing domain
- Enough technical fluency in data systems, distributed infrastructure, or scanning at scale to write requirements
- Proven experience writing detailed technical requirements and acceptance criteria that engineers can build against
- Experience defining data schemas and quality metrics, and writing documentation that both technical and non-technical audiences can use
- Experience running a delivery cadence (sprint planning, backlog grooming, status reporting) with a fast-moving engineering org
- Proven track record working with cross-functional stakeholders (Sales, Engineering, peer PMs) without formal authority over their priorities
- Demonstrates curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
For high cost of living areas in the US (San Francisco / Seattle / NYC), the expected salary range for this position is $190,000 USD - $220,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
For all other locations in the US, the expected salary range for this position is $168,000 USD - $205,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
For candidates being considered outside of the US, location specific market data will be evaluated and discussed during the interview process.
Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. The listed range is a guideline, and the range for this role may be modified. For roles that are available to be filled remotely, the pay range is localized according to employee work location by a factor of between 83% and 100% of range. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.
For US Employees: Censys offers a competitive benefits package to employees, including equity, health, dental & vision coverage, retirement with company contribution, parental leave, mental health & wellness benefits, flexible PTO, and a professional development stipend. Censys also offers sales incentive pay for most sales roles and an annual bonus plan for eligible non-sales roles. Please see our careers page for more details. For employees located outside of the US, location-specific benefits are available and the information pertaining to those will be provided to you during the interview process.
We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.
To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and in attempt to facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates to keep their cameras on during video interviews. You may also be required to meet a Censys employee at one point during your process. Additionally, if hired, you will be invited to visit Ann Arbor, Michigan for in-person onboarding.
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