Hybrid Founding Product Lead

at Zip Security

• Job title: Founding Product Lead
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Founding Product Lead at Zip Security overseeing product strategy and execution for key areas. Collaborating with teams to address customer needs and streamline security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and execution for core areas of the Zip Security platform as one of the first product leaders at the company.
• Lead product discovery from the ground up — identifying customer problems, validating solutions, and shaping the roadmap in partnership with Engineering and Design.
• Translate customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints into clear product requirements and priorities.
• Define and evolve product processes, rituals, and best practices as the product organization scales.
• Write clear, concise product specs and requirements that align teams and drive execution.
• Drive prioritization and tradeoffs across features, technical investments, and new initiatives.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to incorporate customer feedback and ensure successful launches and adoption.
• Measure success using product metrics and outcomes, iterating quickly based on results.
• Act as a strong product voice internally, advocating for customer impact and long-term thinking.

Requirements

• You have 5–8+ years of product management experience and have owned products or major product areas end to end.
• You’ve worked in early-stage or fast-growing environments and enjoy building structure where little exists.
• You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
• You bring strong product judgment and can balance speed, quality, and long-term impact.
• You communicate clearly and can influence cross-functional partners without formal authority.
• You take full ownership and naturally think beyond execution to how product should operate at scale.
• Bonus: Experience building B2B, enterprise, security, or infrastructure products.

Benefits

• We want our employees learn, grow, and have career satisfaction
• We want to create a successful company – but not at the cost of culture. At Zip, we value each other, and want to create a culture where our people are not only “working in a fast-paced, challenging, environment” but are also (and more importantly) happy, learning, and able to contribute. We value succeeding as a collective.
• We are a high autonomy, high trust organization that prioritizes thoughtful communication
• No one likes being micromanaged. At Zip, we value autonomy and trust our employees to get the job done. We add communication here to emphasize that high autonomy and high trust doesn’t mean no support. At Zip supporting our employees and creating a great culture is a top priority. Thoughtful communication in tandem with high ownership is key to not just building a successful culture, but also external collaboration with customers and internal teams.
• We value transparency, equity, and empathy.
• Honest, empathetic feedback is kind. It gives your co-workers the opportunity to grow and become the best versions of themselves. At Zip, we value frequent, well-structured, fair feedback – feedback that directly relates activities to outcomes, and allows us all to move forward together, better.
• We want to move fast, be flexible, but not break things:
• We’re a start-up: we need to move fast, and be able to pivot at a moment’s notice. But we don’t want to break things, and want to balance being fast with being thoughtful and intentional about how we build our software.
• We value balance
• Whether it’s work/life balance or moving fast/building right balance, understanding the tradeoffs in a start-up and making sure to strike the right balance is necessary. We continuously evaluate our decisions in a data-driven way, and aim to make sure we’re always getting better.
• We assume best intentions
• We're a team working together to make enterprise cybersecurity easy. We'll face hard problems together, and assuming best intentions of coworkers is of utmost importance to building a great culture.