VP of Products & Platform - AI/Security

Role Description

The Position: VP of Products & Platform

MetaDefender Core | Enterprise Shared Services | Platform Architecture | AI-First Operations Protecting the World's Critical Infrastructure

Every MetaDefender product runs on a common foundation, this role's domain. The VP of Platform will transform it into the definitive substrate that every product team builds on, every customer deploys with confidence, and every enterprise buyer trusts to meet their most demanding requirements.

This role owns the platform that defines what File Security means as an enterprise discipline, distinct from and irreducible to "antivirus." You will be expected to grow this into a business with its own gravity: a named market category that OPSWAT leads, not a feature that competes inside someone else's.

This is also an AI-first mandate. You will build a platform where agentic capability is native in the product, in operations, and in how the platform team itself works, and you will use AI as the primary lever to drive organizational change and adoption velocity across the company.

This is not a maintenance role. It directly shapes how every product in the MetaDefender portfolio ships, deploys, and operates. You will own the most horizontally impactful technology in the company; few platform roles touch this much surface area. Product leaders at OPSWAT stay close to the technology — you'll work alongside peers who read code, challenge architectures, and ship.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in platform engineering, developer platforms, or infrastructure product management, with 5+ years in senior leadership owning platform strategy.
• AI-first product leadership.
• Demonstrated use of AI/agentic systems as a product surface and as an operating model.
• Customer-deployed software depth (not pure SaaS).
• Architectural fluency across Kubernetes, containerization, IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP), and traditional on-prem.
• File Security depth beyond antivirus.
• Earned-adoption track record.
• Enterprise software acumen.
• Strong communicator and internal seller.
• Metrics-driven leadership.
• Curiosity, ownership, and bias for action.

Requirements

• Audit & Roadmap (Months 1–3): Deep-dive into Shared Services adoption, Core architecture, deployment tooling, and the current AI/agentic surface. Deliver a prioritized platform roadmap with clear adoption milestones and a File Security category thesis.
• Internal Evangelism (Months 3–6): Establish the platform team as an internal product organization. Build relationships with every product PM and engineering lead. Ship quick wins — including AI-driven ones — that demonstrate value and earn trust.
• Accelerate Adoption (Months 6–12): Drive measurable Shared Services adoption across the portfolio. Modernize Core for next-generation scale. Establish deployment patterns and agentic workflows that reduce customer time-to-value.

Benefits

• Direct collaboration with 2 dedicated engineering teams (40+ headcount).
• Influencing platform adoption across 12+ peer engineering teams globally.

Company Description

OPSWAT, a global leader in IT, OT, and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance.

Over the last 20 years, our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.