Senior Product Manager

About Acquia

Acquia empowers the worlds most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company, is listed as one of the worlds top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it!

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The Mission

Security and performance at the edge are not features Acquia bolts on. They are the foundation of why enterprise customers trust us with their most critical digital experiences. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to own the strategic direction of our edge and security platform, the layer that turns what many competitors treat as an add on into one of Acquia's most compelling competitive advantages.

This role owns our strategic relationships with the CDN, WAF, and security vendors that power our edge platform, defining how those partnerships evolve and how their capabilities are packaged into a native part of the Acquia experience. It also sets the commercial strategy that makes enterprise grade edge protection standard rather than an upsell, and sets the strategic agenda for the broader team responsible for platform security and delivery.

The rise of agentic workflows is changing what edge security needs to do. AI agents, ours, our customers', and those crawling the web, generate traffic patterns, authentication needs, and API interactions that traditional WAF and bot management rules were not built for. You will define what edge protection looks like for an era where a growing share of traffic is not human, and you will build the commercial, technical, and partner strategy that gets us there.

The Profile

• The Edge Strategist. You build security and performance at the edge into a genuine competitive advantage, one that protects human facing web properties and automated, AI driven traffic alike. You design the product strategy, pricing, and packaging that make that story credible and commercially compelling.
• The Partnership Owner. You own strategic relationships with major CDN, WAF, and security technology partners at a level well beyond day to day vendor management. You understand each partner's roadmap, negotiate from a position of knowledge, and ensure our edge capabilities stay ahead of what a customer could assemble on their own.
• The Team Strategist. You set the strategic agenda for the team responsible for edge and platform security, align peers around it, and drive it forward without needing formal authority. You bring experienced colleagues along through the quality of your thinking.
• The Forward Thinker. You anticipate how AI and automation are reshaping security requirements, and you build the frameworks that let the platform stay ahead of that shift rather than reacting to it.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the edge platform strategy. Define and drive product strategy for our full edge and security portfolio, including WAF, CDN, DDoS protection, bot management, and the technology integrations that power them.
• Lead strategic partnership management. Own relationships with our CDN, WAF, and security technology partners at a strategic level, including roadmap alignment, commercial negotiation, and the partnership decisions that shape our edge capabilities for years to come.
• Architect for an AI driven traffic landscape. Define how the platform distinguishes legitimate automated traffic from malicious activity, how non human identity and authentication are handled at the edge, and how rate limiting and usage policies account for a growing volume of AI agent and automated traffic.
• Define commercial edge strategy. Partner with commercial and growth teams to build the pricing, packaging, and bundling strategy that makes best in class edge protection a native platform capability.
• Set team strategy and influence without authority. Define the strategic agenda for the broader edge and security team, align peers including senior colleagues around a shared direction, and keep the work moving through clarity of argument rather than positional authority.
• Maintain strategic visibility. Keep leadership consistently informed on edge and security priorities, progress, and risk. Proactive, structured communication upward is a core part of this role.
• Build shared context for AI enabled workflows. Maintain the documentation and knowledge structures, covering edge architecture, partner roadmaps, and security standards, that let modern AI assisted workflows scale analysis and documentation without manual overhead.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Management experience, with a focus on security, edge services, CDN, or platform infrastructure
• Strategic Partnership Management: demonstrated experience owning strategic relationships with major technology vendors or partners, including roadmap negotiation, commercial terms, and long term partnership governance
• Strong commercial instincts: pricing, packaging, and the product mechanics that turn technical capabilities into market winning propositions
• A track record of setting strategic direction and bringing experienced peers along without relying on formal authority
• Technical fluency in WAF, DDoS protection, CDN, and edge security architecture, sufficient to hold your own with senior security engineers and enterprise architects
• An understanding of how AI and automated traffic patterns are changing security, bot management, and API protection requirements
• A genuine conviction that security done well is a growth driver, not a cost center
• Location: Must be based in US or Canada with availability aligned to Eastern Standard Time business hours

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!

Final compensation will be commensurate with your experience and will be determined by a variety of factors, including city of residence, relevant skillset, and job-related knowledge.

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veterans status or any other protected status or characteristic under federal, state or local law unrelated to the ability to perform the job.

We are seeking an AI-Native candidate who treats AI not as an external tool, but as a fundamental extension of their cognitive workflow. The ideal candidate possesses an orchestration mindsetthe ability to skillfully prompt, manage, and direct AI to navigate complexityand maintains a high degree of AI fluency.

You should be characterized by radical adaptability and a "builder" mentality, showing a restless drive to transform traditional work processes into agentic workflows. Beyond technical proficiency, we value intellectual humility: the willingness to constantly unlearn old methods in favor of more efficient, AI-augmented processes. You don't just use AI to do your job; you use it to redefine what your job can achieve.