Senior Product Manager

Meet Yubico Yubico is a global leader in identity security and creator of the YubiKey, the original hardware-backed passkey. We are publicly traded on Nasdaq Stockholm; our global footprint includes headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Silicon Valley, California; and Singapore. Why Join Our Mission? At Yubico, we are guided by a shared belief that your work matters. We operate under a cultural philosophy of Speed with Integrity, pushing the boundaries of technology to secure the AI frontier—protecting both human and agentic AI interactions—and leading the transition to post-quantum cryptography. In everything we do, we live by our core values: • Battle Friction: We constantly look for new ways to simplify our products, our work, and the user experience. • Inspire Higher: We think big, champion the open internet, and strive to do the right thing even when it is difficult. • One Team: We are open, responsive, and collaborative, overcoming challenges and celebrating our successes together. Aligned with our commitment to open standards, we foster a thriving builder ecosystem through the Yubico Developer Program, offering free open-source repositories, libraries, and SDKs to help developers rapidly integrate strong hardware authentication into any application. Through close collaborations with technical partners like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, as well as newer frontiers like OpenAI, we continue to shape a safer digital world while donating security keys to protect vulnerable communities, journalists, and humanitarian groups worldwide through our Secure it Forward program. At Yubico, we offer: Yubico Values: We work to ensure that our employees have an open space to have their voices amplified to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. In support of this, our employees have created some pretty cool Employee Resource Groups that foster inclusion, help build community and connection across Yubico. Additionally, Yubico donates YubiKeys to organizations in need all over the world (you can read more about our work here). Social Connection: Relationships and connectedness matter, and we love spending time with our team! Our virtual workspace keeps us connected day-to-day whether it's through Yubico celebrating wins or our buzzing Slack communities. Check out our Life at Yubico Page on LinkedIn and our awards here. The Role Yubico is looking for an experienced and highly collaborative Senior Product Manager to define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Tools, Libraries, and Applications (TLA) that underlie many of Yubico products and services. In this role, you will be a technical leader in our product management team and work closely with builders across a variety of our products from open source libraries and SDKs which empower other developers to create amazing things with our products, command line tools for managing and using YubiKeys and YubiHSMs, as well as graphical apps for mobile and desktop platforms. Our team works with authentication protocols like FIDO2/WebAuthn and uses cryptography to implement open standards. You'll have the opportunity to help us showcase our libraries in sample apps, making complex topics easier to use. You will help define and deliver the success of Yubico’s foundational product areas and expand the use of our technology to new and innovative areas that capture the market demand. You will serve as the strategic counterpart to our Senior Director of Engineering for Tools, Libraries & Apps. This role will own the "what" and "why" behind the enterprise-grade, secured, and reliable software used to build new applications and services that expand the value of Yubico hardware and services. To succeed, you will work closely with other product managers, engineers, solutions engineers, and operations teams to translate complex business and technical requirements into a robust definition for the foundational tools, libraries and applications in our expanding product portfolio Tasks & Responsibilities • Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Define and execute the long-term product vision and roadmap for our foundational tools, libraries, and applications, ensuring tight alignment with overarching business goals and customer needs. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner deeply across Engineering, Product, Operations, and Security teams to design high-impact capabilities that enhance product foundations that underlie efficiency and scalability of our solutions. • Customer focus: Meet with customers to understand market demand and outcomes for new products • Requirements Definition: Translate complex workflows and software requirements into clear, high-quality product requirement documents (PRDs) and user stories. • Technical Partnership & Conflict Resolution: Serve as the strategic unifier in cross-functional technical decisions. Actively synthesize competing priorities between product vision and architectural necessity, ensuring trade-offs are documented, data-backed, and optimized for long-term reliability. • Data-driven Insights: Provide data-driven insights on the specific products being managed, including sales and financial performance, year-over-year trends, pipeline, etc. • Full life cycle management: Manage the full life-cycle of a product from inception to end of life including: conception, market and requirements gathering, customer validation, creation of high-quality requirements document, management of engineering, marketing preparation, release and end-of-life processes • Security & Compliance Management: Collaborate with security and engineering teams to ensure software systems seamlessly integrate with critical cryptographic infrastructure (such as PKI and HSMs) while maintaining Yubico's gold standard of security. Basic Qualifications • Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience). • Experience: 10+ years of progressively broadening product management experience, with a strong track record of shipping complex, enterprise-class hardware & manufacturing solutions. • Domain Expertise: Proven experience in technical product management including development of large-scale internal tools. • Leadership & Acumen: Proven ability to act as a constructive challenger to highly technical engineering partners. Strong business and technical acumen with the confidence to debate architectural tradeoffs and act as a constructive challenger in deeply technical environments and manage competing priorities across geographically distributed teams. • Communication: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to align multi-disciplinary teams toward a unified vision. Preferred Qualifications • Cryptographic Systems: Understanding of cryptographic systems, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), or Key Management Systems utilizing Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). • Analytical Mindset: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a hands-on approach to diving deep into technical workflows alongside engineering teams. U.S. benefits designed for your overall well-being: Health coverage. We’ve got you covered with top of the line health plans, including dental and vision. We pay 100% of your premium and 85% for your family. Retirement plan. Our retirement plan includes a 401K dollar per dollar match up to 6% with a cap of $6K/year. Immediate vesting. Wellness reimbursement. We offer $1,200.00 in wellness earnings (prorated based on start date) that you can use on your gym membership, a massage, or your favorite online fitness classes. This is a taxable benefit if you choose to participate. Learning and development. We encourage your professional growth and offer a yearly development stipend of $3,000 and mentorship program. Time off. We offer a total of 15 vacation days plus 10 holidays, and 7 sick days a year. Paid parental leave. We love welcoming new family members to our YubiTeam! All parents receive 8 weeks of paid leave. Birthing parents receive an additional 8 weeks of paid leave (16 weeks total). Commuter Benefits. If you need to commute to the office, we offer commuter benefits. Strong mission & company values. We’re a global team on a global mission to make the internet more secure for everyone. We believe that every person’s work matters. That you should always be nice, stay humble, and have fun, and never take yourself too seriously. #LI-BR1 #LI-Remote Yubico offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work. This role has the annual salary range as defined below for a salary pay range for a candidate located in the San Francisco Bay Area. For roles that are filled in other locations, the compensation range will be based on data provided by the Radford McLagan Compensation Database from Aon. Final compensation is also based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Salary Pay Range $175,000—$210,000 USD We are an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We'd love to learn about what you can add to our diverse team. 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