VP of Platform
OPSWAT
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Own the technical vision for Core’s evolution: modular design for supporting multi-engine orchestration, processing throughput, format coverage, and API extensibility.
- Drive the product strategy to serve growing file analysis demands across new modalities — archives, encrypted containers, firmware, ML model files.
- Understand Core’s role as the nucleus of the MetaDefender ecosystem and ensure its architecture enables, rather than constrains, adjacent products.
- Shape the growth trajectory with a path toward full P&L ownership as the role and platform mature.
- Installer & Deployment: Unified installation framework supporting online, offline/airgapped, headless, and automated deployment scenarios.
- Configuration & Policy Management: Centralized configuration, policy engines, and tenant-aware settings across the product portfolio.
- Identity & Access: SSO, RBAC, SAML/OIDC integration, and enterprise identity federation.
- Notifications & Reporting: Shared notification framework, audit logging, scheduled and ad-hoc reporting.
- Observability: Telemetry, health monitoring, and operational dashboards.
- Scalability & Architecture: Horizontal scaling patterns, zero-downtime upgrades, HA/DR design, and performance benchmarking.
- Internal Adoption: Build a developer experience so compelling that peer PMs and their engineering teams actively want to integrate. Evangelize, document, support, and iterate.
- UI framework: Build and maintain brand-compatible, language-agnostic UI components so that other teams will not need to reimplement their own.
Requirements
- 15+ years in platform engineering, developer platforms, or infrastructure product management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role owning platform strategy.
- Deep experience building products deployed in customer environments (not purely SaaS) — you understand the pain of on-prem upgrades, air-gapped installations, and enterprise change management.
- Architectural fluency across Kubernetes, containerization, IaaS (AWS/Azure/GCP), and traditional on-prem server deployments. You don’t need to debug Helm charts, but you must evaluate architectural trade-offs and challenge engineering decisions.
- Proven track record of building internal platforms that other teams willingly adopt. You know the difference between mandating adoption and earning it.
- Enterprise software acumen: SSO/SAML/OIDC, RBAC, multi-tenancy, audit logging, zero-downtime deployments, observability — you’ve shipped these capabilities and understand what enterprise buyers demand.
- Strong communicator and internal seller: Ability to align peer PMs, convince skeptical engineering leads, and present platform strategy to executive leadership.
- Metrics-Driven Product Leadership: Define clear KPIs for platform adoption, performance, scalability, and customer impact. Use dashboards and qualitative feedback to prioritize roadmap decisions and hold teams accountable for measurable outcomes.
- Curiosity, Ownership, and Bias for Action: Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and proactive ownership, embracing emerging technologies (including AI-driven development) to move quickly while maintaining architectural rigor. Balance speed with resilience to build long-lived platform capabilities trusted by enterprise customers.
Benefits
- OPSWAT is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are extended to all employees and applicants, free of discrimination and harassment of any type. All employment decisions are based on individual qualifications, job requirements, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
modular designmulti-engine orchestrationAPI extensibilityconfiguration managementpolicy managementidentity federationobservabilityhorizontal scalingzero-downtime upgradesperformance benchmarking
Soft Skills
strong communicatorinternal sellermetrics-driven leadershipintellectual curiosityproactive ownershipability to align teamsconvincing stakeholderspresenting strategyevangelizing productssupporting integration