Product Manager - Security & Compliance

Job Description

We’re looking for a thoughtful and technically curious Product Manager to join the team at Tailscale, initially focused on Security & Compliance. Reporting directly to the Group Product Manager overseeing our largest offering, you’ll join a supportive team of senior product leaders who are deeply committed to your growth and success.

You’ll begin by owning clearly defined workflows around device approvals and posture enforcement, key features that help Tailscale confidently serve regulated customers such as banks and healthcare providers. As you build confidence, your responsibilities will expand into broader security and compliance areas of the product.

At Tailscale, we believe even security should feel intuitive and elegant. You’ll apply your foundational compliance and security knowledge, along with strong product taste, to design intuitive onboarding experiences, streamlined approval notifications, and actionable audit trails.

While this role is open to current product managers, we are also interested in candidates who are not product managers but are currently in security-focused design, solutions engineering, or other customer-facing roles and ready to step into product management. You’ll have structured mentorship from a senior product leader, including regular 1:1s, and dedicated support from experienced teams in product management, sales, marketing, and customer success.

Key Responsibilities

• Initially own specific workflows, such as MDM/EDR integrations and posture checks, with clear support from senior PMs and engineers
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design teams to create intuitive compliance workflows, frictionless device onboarding, and actionable audit experiences
• Write clear product requirements, manage your feature backlog, and actively work to enable multiple engineering teams
• Regularly engage directly with customers (approximately 25% of your time), supported by Sales and Customer Success teams, through structured interviews and shadowing existing customer interactions
• Collaborate with design, engineering and UXR to translate enterprise security and compliance requirements into simple, user-friendly experiences

What We Are Looking For

• Required: 1-3 years in a product management or customer facing role with foundational exposure to security standards, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), and relevant industry best practices.
• Required: Solid foundational knowledge in at least one of the following areas: device approvals, posture checks, RBAC, ACL management, audit logging, along with an eagerness to quickly learn the others
• Required: At least 3 hours of overlap in daily working hours with our UK-based engineering team.
• Comfortable learning and engaging hands-on with the product at the command line
• Excellent written communication skills, especially when crafting clear, actionable product requirements and documentation
• Strong interpersonal skills. You genuinely enjoy collaborating cross-functionally, particularly with sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams
• Empathy for users, instinctively prioritizing clear, intuitive, and enjoyable experiences, even within technical contexts

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, VPNs, identity providers, or related security products
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code or DevSecOps tooling, ex: GitOps, Terraform
• Experience working with customers in regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare
• Familiarity with data analytics technologies such as Looker, Snowflake, Grafana, or SQL

Career Growth

This role is explicitly designed as a launch pad into senior product leadership. Your initial scope will be focused and clearly defined, supported by structured mentorship from your manager and other senior product leaders. You’ll join a highly collaborative cross-functional team, gaining broad experience across UX design, technical decision-making, compliance strategy, and cross-functional collaboration - all within a high-trust, low-ego environment.

As a company, we strive to maintain fair and equitable compensation practices within our team across all roles and all levels. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. The salary range displayed on each job posting represents the target range for a new hire's base salary. Individual offers may vary based on experience and skill set.