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Product Manager

Adaptive · NYC · On-site

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About Adaptive

Human security for the AI era. Adaptive unifies security awareness training, phishing simulations, agentic email security, and AI governance. Backed by a16z.

About the role

Own the roadmap for your product area. Prioritize ruthlessly based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility. Then defend your bets to leadership and GTM. Be the voice of the customer. Run discovery calls, mine support tickets, and synthesize what you hear into clear problem statements.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of product management experience, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS startup
  • Strong sense of initiative, thoughtful synthesis of feedback, and swift adaptability when faced with ambiguity
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the humility to learn from mistakes and collaborate with a team
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver exceptional products
  • Expertise with AI tools. You actively use LLMs, AI coding agents, and similar tools in your daily work, and find new, novel ways to take advantage of these tools to move faster
More about this role

Adaptive is a cybersecurity startup on a mission to stop AI-powered cyberattacks, founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones—proven entrepreneurs behind Attentive (Forbes Cloud 100, $10B+ valuation) and TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter). Adaptive has raised $146.5M to date, including an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from NVIDIA, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, a16z, and the OpenAI Fund — OpenAI's first-ever cybersecurity investment.

As generative AI drives new cyber threats, Adaptive is building the defense layer every organization needs. Our platform combines personalized security training, AI-driven attack simulations, and automated threat triage, all powered by the Adaptive Risk Intelligence Engine to quantify human risk at the individual level. We're an AI-native team — we build AI products, and we use AI to build them. Trusted by top banks, tech companies, and healthcare organizations, we protect teams from emerging threats like deepfakes, smishing, and voice scams. With a solid product foundation and a $200B+ market to transform, we're just getting started.

Adaptive Security is building the next-generation security platform for the AI age....

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