Lead Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence

at  Rapid7

RAPID7’S AI CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE

The AI CoE partners with cross-functional teams at Rapid7 to enable customers to assess risk, detect threats and automate their security programs. We ensure AI, ML and data science are applied in a meaningful way to add impactful value, best achieve business objectives and deliver ROI to both Rapid7 and our customers. We adopt a creative, fast-fail, highly iterative approach to accelerate ideas from proof-of-concept to go or no-go. Our current capabilities are built on 20+ years of threat analysis and open-source communities with 40 AI patents granted and 20+ pending. Our AI goals are ambitious and we need dynamic people with a desire to be part of something big.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Rapid7 is making significant investments in our AI Centre of Excellence, encompassing the full range of AI, ML and data science. As a leader in cybersecurity, we’re on a mission to incorporate AI throughout our platform portfolio and optimize our customers to Take Command of the Attack Surface.
We’re seeking an experienced AI-focused product manager to lead identifying, defining, and delivering large scale, enterprise grade solutions to both delight our customers and deliver value across multiple products within the Rapid7 portfolio. You’ll be primarily responsible for managing the entire product lifecycle; partnering with data scientists, engineers, UI/UX, customer researchers, technical writers, marketing, and compliance and governance teams to do so. Our teams utilize generative AI, neural networks, and more conventional data science so prior experience is a must to be able to make an impact immediately!

RESPONSIBILITIES OF ROLE:

• Partner with cross-functional leadership teams to own the AI product vision across the Rapid7 product portfolio; including communication with internal and external teams of varying business levels
• Partner with customer research, UX, data science, product and engineering teams to ensure we create the best AI products and experiences that maximize customer and business impact
• Ensure product development alignment with Rapid7’s compliance and governance policies
• Manage multiple AI initiatives and product life cycles that map to Rapid7’s business objectives and product strategy
• Work closely with AI engineers on defining potential use cases for R&D, tailoring AI-based approaches for most suitable solutions that meet customer, company, and market requirements
• Define, design, and lead execution of user requirements into AI-based product deliverables, partnering with multiple teams through the Rapid7 product SDLC processes
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and understanding of initiatives, customer outcomes, and urgency to mitigate risks in dependencies for deliverables
• Create and report upon KPIs and metrics to monitor cost, usage, and customer adoption appropriate through varying stages of development; from POC to full production releases
• Collaborate with AI CoE and Marketing on messaging and artifacts for public visibility of AI-based initiatives, development, and customer engagement
• Lead, coach, and mentor colleagues through influence; positively contributing to our product culture in a highly complex and fast-changing environment