Principal Product Manager, Certificate Authority

Location: Hybrid in Austin, Texas, or London

Company

hirify.global operates a global network that protects and accelerates Internet applications and provides security, performance, and infrastructure services.

What you will do

• Define the product strategy, roadmap, customer experience, and commercial model for hirify.global's Certificate Authority business.
• Build capabilities for publicly trusted certificates, ACME issuance, certificate lifecycle automation, renewal, revocation, Certificate Transparency, customer controls, and developer integrations.
• Partner with engineering on certificate lifecycle systems, HSM integration, key protection, auditability, reliability, and automated recovery.
• Work with compliance, legal, security, operations, sales, marketing, and WebPKI stakeholders on trust, incident response, audits, and ecosystem requirements.
• Own packaging, pricing, customer segmentation, launch sequencing, competitive positioning, sales enablement, messaging, and adoption metrics.
• Use hirify.global as Customer Zero and coordinate with SSL/TLS, Application Security, Zero Trust, Workers, Registrar, DNS, Load Balancing, SaaS, and infrastructure teams.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience building technical products for developers, security teams, infrastructure teams, enterprises, or cloud platforms.
• Experience with security, identity, infrastructure, or developer platform products where correctness, reliability, compliance, and trust are core requirements.
• Working knowledge of PKI and certificate lifecycle management, including TLS, X.509, ACME, public and private CAs, revocation, Certificate Transparency, mTLS, and HSMs.
• Experience with product strategy, pricing and packaging, customer segmentation, go-to-market planning, and technical B2B products.
• Technical fluency in APIs, distributed systems, key management, audit trails, reliability, operational failure modes, and security tradeoffs.
• Strong written communication and judgment for high-consequence, ecosystem-visible infrastructure decisions.

Nice to have

• Experience with certificate authorities, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, cloud security, identity, trust services, or managed certificate platforms.
• Familiarity with CA/Browser Forum requirements, browser root programs, WebTrust, public CA incident reporting, or WebPKI and IETF communities.
• Experience with API-first developer products, ACME, SDKs, CLI workflows, Kubernetes, service mesh, mTLS, or infrastructure-as-code integrations.
• Experience launching zero-to-one products or businesses inside a larger platform company.
• Knowledge of post-quantum cryptography, crypto-agility, Merkle Tree Certificates, or shorter certificate lifetimes.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Austin or London.
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, commuter, fertility, family-forming, and mental health benefits.
• Disability, life and accident insurance, 401(k), and employee stock participation plan for eligible employees in the United States.
• Flexible paid time off and leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave.
• Global travel medical insurance and participation in an equity plan.

Hiring process

• Candidates who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview at a hirify.global office or hub.
• The position may require access to information protected by U.S. export control laws, and employment may depend on authorization to receive controlled technology without export-license sponsorship.