Hybrid Technical Product Owner – Mid-Senior, Threat Intelligence

at Nord Security

• Job title: Technical Product Owner – Mid-Senior, Threat Intelligence
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: €4,700 - €6,700 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Vilnius, Lithuania

About the role

• Technical Product Owner managing internal detection products for NordVPN's Threat Protection. Collaborating with teams to ensure product performance and quality in cybersecurity initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the roadmap for internal detection products (phishing, scam, malware, etc.).
• Ensure detection systems meet high standards for precision and recall, minimizing false positives/negatives.
• Support integration of detection capabilities into broader NordVPN infrastructure.
• Partner with data scientists to define requirements for training, validating, and deploying ML models.
• Ensure high-quality labeled data pipelines for model accuracy and robustness.
• Collaborate on model evaluation frameworks to track real-world performance and drift.
• Facilitate experimentation and rapid iteration on detection algorithms and heuristics.
• Oversee ingestion, validation, and prioritization of data from paid, open-source, and internal threat feeds.
• Build systems to correlate signals across feeds and flag anomalies or inconsistencies.
• Maintain tools and processes that streamline curation workflows and reduce manual overhead.
• Ensure transparency and traceability in decisions affecting detection confidence.
• Translate business and operational needs into clear technical requirements.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders on trade-offs, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Ensure clarity around ownership, goals, and impact of each threat intel product stream.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives with technical teams.
• Prioritize work based on business value, tech feasibility, and detection effectiveness.
• Track product KPIs (e.g., detection accuracy, false positive rate, latency) and adapt roadmap accordingly.

Requirements

• Proven Experience as Technical Product Ownership: Demonstrated success as a Technical Product Owner in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or data-heavy environments.
• Technical and Analytical Thinking: Solid understanding of threat intelligence, detection systems, and ML-driven security products. Able to evaluate technical trade-offs and make informed, data-based decisions.
• Data Fluency: Experienced in tracking performance metrics such as detection accuracy or false positive rates. Comfortable using data to identify issues and guide improvements.
• Strong Communication: Able to align technical and non-technical teams around shared goals. Skilled at translating complex topics into clear, actionable plans.
• Agile Product Delivery: Proven experience leading Agile teams and managing product backlogs. Able to prioritize initiatives based on impact, complexity, and strategic alignment.
• Technical Education (a plus): Background in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field is a strong advantage.
• Fluency in English: Able to communicate clearly and effectively in both written and spoken English.