Senior Product Manager, Internet Map

Company Background

At Censys, we know the internet and cloud better than anyone else. Censys stands at the forefront of internet and cloud expertise, empowering customers through our Attack Surface Management solutions. We offer a unique attacker-centric perspective, providing a comprehensive view of external internet and cloud assets to prioritize and mitigate critical risk exposures effectively. Our daily IPv4 scans and the world’s largest SSL/TLS Certificate database ensure customers have continuously updated attack surface insights. Enterprises rely on Censys to stay ahead of cyber threats and proactively safeguard against attacks, driving tangible impact in the digital landscape.

Location 

This is a hybrid role based in one of our four hubs: Ann Arbor, MI / Los Altos, CA / Kirkland, WA / Tysons Corner, VA

Role Summary

We are looking for a strategic and technically adept Senior Data Product Manager to drive the evolution of our Internet Map. This role requires a deep understanding of network protocols, security best practices, and the intelligence workflows that power threat hunting, incident response, and supplier intelligence. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with product leadership to shape the future of global internet visibility and security intelligence.

This is a technical product and a technical role, which will require someone who has worked in cybersecurity either in a product role or as a security practitioner, researcher, or engineering role.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive the roadmap for Censys’s Internet Map, ensuring it aligns with customer needs, security workflows, and emerging threats by understanding and communicating the problem of our users and customers. 
• Leverage deep technical knowledge of network protocols and internet infrastructure to drive improvements in data collection, enrichment, and accessibility in collaboration with engineering, data science, and the Research team. This includes:
  • Defining what to scan for based on security relevance, customer needs, and emerging threat landscapes, working closely with Research and engineering teams to refine prioritization.
  • Refining detection logic for internet assets in partnership with data science and engineering Research teams to improve the accuracy and classification of scanned data.
  • Prioritizing high-impact infrastructure elements, such as exposed services, misconfigured cloud resources, and critical internet-facing assets, in alignment with data science insights and real-world attack surface risks.
  • Improving scanning by collaborating with engineering to enhance coverage, reduce noise, and ensure high-fidelity insights while maintaining efficiency at scale.
  • Contextualizing identified infrastructure with the Research and data science teams by incorporating security-relevant attributes, such as:
    • Ownership (e.g., mapping assets to organizations or providers).
    • Risk categorization (e.g., identifying vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or risky behaviors).
    • Behavioral insights (e.g., tracking changes over time to detect anomalies or security shifts).
• Surfacing key insights and patterns to inform the strategy, and product roadmap. 
• Building a deep understanding of competitive and emergent solutions to inform gap analysis and product roadmap decisions. 
• Communicating product roadmap to external and internal stakeholders. 
• Defining, sequencing, and prioritizing the product backlog into discrete milestones that enable R&D to continuously develop and deliver incremental customer value on the path to releasing an MVP.
• Identifying risks before they become critical blockers by closely working with teams to build a technical understanding of the solution’s limitations. 
• Developing positioning & messaging with Product Marketing Manager counterparts to enable Go-To-Market teams to emphasize value and differentiate in the selling cycle. 
• Setting success metrics and tracking metrics post-launch to guide investment in iterative improvements.

What You’ll Bring

• 8 to 10+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of experience and education, in a product role and/or on a security team (e.g., SOC, threat analyst, vulnerability testing).
• Strong technical knowledge of network protocols and Internet infrastructure including TCP/IP, UDP, IPv4 and IPv6, DNS, WHOIS, certificates, TLS, BGP, protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, RDP, and Cloud Services.
• Understanding and familiarity with security best practices and threat hunting, incident response, and supplier intelligence workflows.
• Recognized as a thought lea