Principal Product Manager, Sandboxes

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Principal Product Manager, Sandboxes based in the United States. This is a strategic product leadership role focused on shaping secure, isolated environments for modern software development and AI-powered workflows. You will own the vision, roadmap, adoption, revenue, and long-term success of a critical sandboxing product area. The role combines deep technical product management with hands-on engagement with developers, customers, and ecosystem partners. You’ll translate complex tradeoffs across security, performance, networking, storage, scalability, and cost into intuitive product experiences. Working across engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market teams, you’ll guide products from concept through delivery and scale. You’ll help define how developers and AI agents safely execute untrusted or agent-generated code across local and cloud environments. This opportunity is ideal for a technically fluent product leader who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly, and is passionate about developer infrastructure. Accountabilities - Own the long-term vision, product strategy, roadmap, adoption, revenue, and business results for the sandboxing product area. - Develop a deep understanding of developers, customers, their workflows, and the security, performance, compatibility, and cost constraints they face. - Engage directly with developers building AI agents, coding environments, CI and testing systems, and other workloads requiring secure, isolated execution. - Translate complex infrastructure tradeoffs involving isolation, startup time, performance, density, networking, storage, and cost into simple, accessible product experiences.

- Define product priorities, features, scope, and delivery plans in collaboration with engineering, design, security, operations, and go-to-market stakeholders. - Lead iterative product development by working with customers and cross-functional teams to test hypotheses, measure adoption and impact, learn from releases, and refine the roadmap. - Drive product initiatives that improve adoption, ecosystem integration, reliability, scalability, unit economics, and recurring revenue. - Establish clear product goals, OKRs, success metrics, and progress reporting to maintain alignment across teams. - Build strong relationships with customers, developers, partners, and internal stakeholders to strengthen product-market fit and ecosystem adoption. - Help foster a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, accountability, and rapid execution across distributed teams. - Guide the product from greenfield development through broader adoption and scale, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution. - Over time, lead cross-functional initiatives that make secure, isolated code execution easier and more valuable for both developers and AI agents. Requirements - Demonstrated experience as a product leader, combined with prior professional experience as a software engineer, ideally in systems, infrastructure, platform engineering, developer tools, or cloud environments. - Deep empathy for developers and a strong track record of conducting user research, engaging directly with technical users, and translating their needs into product decisions. - Strong technical understanding of sandboxes, microVMs, containers, virtualization technologies, and hypervisors, including their respective security and isolation boundaries. - Solid understanding of modern developer infrastructure, including Linux, container runtimes, orchestration, networking, storage, APIs, SDKs, and cloud services. - Experience designing, building, or operating systems that execute customer-provided, untrusted, or AI-generated code at scale.