VP of Products & Platform

MetaDefender Core is at the center of OPSWAT’s file security ecosystem — performing Deep Content Disarm & Reconstruction (CDR), multi-scanning, file-based vulnerability assessment, dynamic analysis with next-gen sandbox and many other layers of technologies across billions of files for the world’s most security-conscious organizations.

• 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 constraints, adjacent products.
• Shape the growth trajectory with a path toward full P&L ownership as the role and platform mature.

This is the highest-leverage work at OPSWAT. Enterprise Shared Services is the unified platform that every mature MetaDefender product adopts to deliver a consistent, enterprise-grade experience. Your mandate: make this platform so compelling that product teams choose to adopt it.

• 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

• →Audit & Roadmap (Months 1–3): Deep-dive into Enterprise Shared Services adoption, Core architecture, and deployment tooling. Deliver a prioritized platform roadmap with clear adoption milestones.
• →Internal Evangelism (Months 3–6): Establish the platform team as an internal product organization. Build relationships with every product PM and engineering lead. Ship quick wins that demonstrate value and earn trust.
• →Accelerate Adoption (Months 6–12): Drive measurable Shared Services adoption across the MetaDefender portfolio. Modernize Core’s architecture for next-generation scale. Establish deployment patterns that reduce customer time-to-value.
• →Directly collaborate with 2 dedicated engineering teams (over 40 headcounts) while influencing platform adoption across 12+ peer engineering teams globally.

• Bring experience beyond pure SaaS, with experience in On-prem or Air-gapped deployment environments and their unique complexities.
• Are passionate about building meaningful platform solutions that truly serve both internal product teams and end-user enterprise customers, with strong customer empathy at the core.
• Enjoy a hands-on leadership approach, actively contributing to architecture, product specifications, and thoughtful decision-making around trade-offs.
• 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.
• Are passionate about building meaningful platform solutions that truly serve both internal product teams and end-user enterprise customers, with strong customer empathy at the core.
• 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.

• Background in data pipeline products: ETL, iPaaS, RPA, or file processing systems that handle large-volume, mission-critical workloads.
• Cybersecurity or critical infrastructure experience: Understanding compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, NIST, Common Criteria), regulated deployments, and security-first architecture.
• Experience scaling a platform from partial to full adoption across a multi-product portfolio. You’ve navigated the technical debt, org politics, and prioritization battles this requires.
• Open-source or inner-source model experience: Building contribution frameworks that enable distributed teams to extend platform capabilities.