Staff Manager, Product
Product
Tel Aviv District, Israel · Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Jul 1, 2026
At Apono, we empower organizations to run securely in the cloud by aligning operations and security around access management. Our platform delivers Just-In-Time and Just Enough access across hybrid environments, reducing access risk while improving productivity.
Apono has offices in New York and Tel Aviv and serves customers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Apono is now part of 1Password, expanding secure access governance for the AI era and helping define the future of secure access for people, systems, and AI agents.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for a Staff Manager of Product to lead Apono's product organization and oversee the entire Apono platform, including its integration with 1Password.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong product judgment, people leadership, technical understanding, and execution excellence. You'll lead a team of Product Managers and Designers, helping them identify real customer problems, build impactful solutions, and deliver with a lean, MVP-first mindset.
Reporting directly to the VP Product, you'll drive roadmap execution, ensure a cohesive product experience across the platform, and partner closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, Customer Success, and leadership to build the right products for our customers while fostering a high-performing, collaborative product culture.
Responsibilities
Apono has offices in New York and Tel Aviv and serves customers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Apono is now part of 1Password, expanding secure access governance for the AI era and helping define the future of secure access for people, systems, and AI agents.
What are we looking for?
We're looking for a Staff Manager of Product to lead Apono's product organization and oversee the entire Apono platform, including its integration with 1Password.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines strong product judgment, people leadership, technical understanding, and execution excellence. You'll lead a team of Product Managers and Designers, helping them identify real customer problems, build impactful solutions, and deliver with a lean, MVP-first mindset.
Reporting directly to the VP Product, you'll drive roadmap execution, ensure a cohesive product experience across the platform, and partner closely with Engineering, Design, GTM, Customer Success, and leadership to build the right products for our customers while fostering a high-performing, collaborative product culture.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Product Managers and Designers.
- Own the product strategy and execution across the Apono platform, ensuring alignment, consistency, and an outstanding customer experience.
- Drive roadmap execution, release planning, prioritization, dependencies, launch readiness, and delivery against company goals.
- Provide regular visibility to the VP Product on roadmap progress, execution risks, blockers, releases, and product impact.
- Coach PMs and Designers to deeply understand customer problems, validate assumptions, and build simple, high-impact solutions.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design to align product direction, UX, technical tradeoffs, and execution.
- Engage directly with customers, prospects, and internal stakeholders to shape product strategy and identify new opportunities.
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product Marketing to support launches, adoption, enablement, and customer feedback.
- Foster a product culture centered on customer focus, execution excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- 8+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in B2B Enterprise SaaS.
- 2+ years leading, mentoring, or managing Product Managers; experience managing Designers is a strong advantage.
- Proven experience leading product teams through roadmap planning, execution, releases, and cross-functional delivery.
- Strong background in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, DevOps, platform products, or another complex technical domain.
- Experience owning broad product platforms requiring strong cross-product alignment and a cohesive user experience.
- Excellent product judgment, with the ability to identify real customer problems and prioritize impactful solutions.
- Strong commitment to lean product development, MVP thinking, rapid validation, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers, technical buyers, security teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Strong technical orientation and ability to partner with Engineering on architecture, feasibility, and technical tradeoffs.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across Product, Engineering, Design, GTM, Customer Success, and executive leadership.
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect product decisions to customer value, adoption, revenue, and market differentiation.
- High ownership, hands-on execution, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments.
- A people-first leadership style with a passion for coaching, feedback, and developing high-performing teams.
- Excellent written and verbal English.
- Collaborative, humble, proactive, and execution-oriented.
- Experience with PAM, CIEM, IGA, identity security, cloud security, DevOps, or DevSecOps.
- Experience leading platform products or integrations following acquisitions or across business units.
- Experience building AI, automation, agentic workflows, or data-driven security products.
- Previous engineering, security, design leadership, or technical product background.
- Experience working with global teams and customers across the US, Israel, and other regions.