Staff Product Manager, Foundations

Role Description

As the Staff Product Manager, Foundations at Vanta, you will be responsible for product strategy and direction for Vanta’s data platform. You’ll sit between the core platform and feature teams, driving the roadmap for transforming how we fetch, store, and use data from customers and 3rd parties at scale. This platform directly enables customer and business outcomes, and backs Vanta’s products and experiences. This is a highly impactful, technical role at the center of how Vanta works and meets customer needs at real scale.

You’ll be part of Vanta’s Automation group, which owns how customers discover and connect to other platforms through integrations, use that data to power product experiences and tests, drive customers toward compliance-related security outcomes, and ultimately generate the evidence required for audit.

What you’ll do as Staff Product Manager, Foundations at Vanta:

• Own the impactful Foundations roadmap, pairing closely with engineering counterparts to plan durable platform investments that serve our customers and products built on top of customer data.
• Collaborate closely with other product teams to understand what platform investments they need to be successful, get ahead of their roadmaps, and create a plan that balances short and long term needs to support customer outcomes.
• Directly drive the Vanta data platform strategy and support GRC strategies, creating clarity on sequencing and support as you build the platform and empower teams to use it.
• Guide the hard tradeoffs between feature development and platform stability, using clarity and empathy to provide clean direction to other teams.
• Enable and evangelize for the data platform, working with other teams to help encourage platform contribution and usage.
• Work directly with customers to understand unique platform requirements and opportunities including shipping features directly to support an outcome.
• Look ahead 12-18 months to build a platform that scales with Vanta, including building toward AI native uses and agent operations.
• Create and measure key metrics and results for platform investments, and own key outcomes around scalability, feature enablement, and queryability.
• Support an existing team of engineers and tech leads focused on the data platform.

Qualifications

• Have 6+ years supporting platform teams, with a preference for data platforms or data products.
• Come having built 0->1 platforms.
• Balance independence and strong communication.
• Have strong frameworks to build complex platforms with clear sequencing, goals, and progress tracking.
• Be intensely curious and collaborative.
• Be technically sharp with data platform topics.
• Be outcome oriented, keeping business and customer goals front and center.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans.
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents.
• Health & wellness stipend.
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend.
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office.
• Family planning benefits.
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting.
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time.
• 11 company-paid holidays.
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!
• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney.