Product Lead Jobs in San Diego, CA
Product Lead jobs in San Diego are concentrated in Sorrento Valley, UTC, and Downtown, across defense technology, biotech, and enterprise software companies. Demand is active, with Intuit, Turquoise, and Faro Health among the employers currently hiring. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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What we do:
Halcyon is the industry's first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.
Who we are:
Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.
As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you're interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
Senior Product Manager, Endpoint
Halcyon | Product | Remote, United States | Travel: 30–40%
About Halcyon
Halcyon builds an advanced anti-ransomware platform that enterprise security teams rely on to stop attacks other tools miss. Our agent runs on our customers endpoints, in production, in some of the largest environments in the world. We move quickly and give people real ownership, which only works because we're deliberate about who we bring on
The Role
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own our endpoint product area. You will own a meaningful piece of the business: shaping strategy for your area, driving it from problem definition through GA and iteration, and being accountable for the results. You will have a strong voice in where the endpoint product goes, and you will own the tradeoffs that get it there.
Our engineering team is highly technical, and you will work with them daily. Engineering owns the solution design, but you will own the customer outcomes and business objectives. You need to hold your own in those conversations, ask the right questions, and understand why endpoint is its own discipline.
This is a customer-facing role. You will spend real time with enterprise security teams in roadmap reviews, executive briefings, and technical deep dives. You will also work closely with our Sales Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and Support, who are in front of customers every day and are one of your best sources of signal. Understanding your audience will be key success factor, and you will need to know when to lean into technical aspects but also be able to articulate the value that the technical solutions provide to executive level buyers.
What You'll Own:
The endpoint product area
- Shape the strategy for our endpoint solution and translate company objectives into a roadmap you can defend.
- Define scope, sequence the work, and make the tradeoff calls. Own them when they are questioned and adjust when needed.
- Drive initiatives from discovery through general availability and post-launch iteration through a transparent and collaborative approach.
- Report on outcomes: adoption, retention, deal impact. Shipping is not the finish line.
Customer engagement
- Meet directly with enterprise customers and prospects to validate problems before you commit to solutions.
- Represent the product in roadmap reviews, executive briefings, and technical deep dives with security teams.
- Turn scattered feedback into a defensible point of view, not a wish list.
Cross-functional execution
- Partner with engineering on requirements, architecture discussions, and delivery quality while balancing business priorities.
- Work day to day with our Sales Architects on deal support, technical objections, and what they are hearing in the field.
- Partner with Marketing, Customer Success, and Support so launches land and get adopted.
- Work within Product / UX to ensure aligned prioritization and execution.
- Surface risk early and drive it to resolution instead of reporting it.
Who We're Looking For:
Required
- 5+ years in product management, with several of those years at a senior or lead level owning an
area rather than a queue of assigned features. - Endpoint experience. You have shipped agent-based software that runs on customer machines and you understand the nuances: deployment at scale, performance footprint, OS behavior, telemetry, upgrade and rollback, and what breaks in production.
- B2B enterprise products sold to external customers, in a customer-facing capacity. Not internal tools or platform operations.
- Technical aptitude to work with a highly technical engineering team. You can follow a design
discussion, read an architecture doc, ask the right questions, and push back credibly. - Engineering owns the solution; you must keep up with them and question when necessary.
- A track record you can walk through in detail: what you owned, what you decided, what shipped,and how you it drove business impact.
- Strong written and verbal communication with both engineers and executives.
- Willingness to travel to customers, roughly 30 to 40%, often in concentrated stretches.
Preferred
- Endpoint security or endpoint management background (EDR, EPP, anti-ransomware, systems management) at a vendor where the agent was the product.
- Startup or high-growth environment experience.
- Applied AI or ML in a shipped product.
Benefits:
Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:
- Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
- Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
- Medical and dependent care FSA options.
- 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Parental leave.
- Generous equity offerings.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
The expected base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $240,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but are not limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offers, and equity awards.
In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.
We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.
What we do:
Halcyon is the industry's first dedicated, adaptive security platform that combines multiple proprietary advanced prevention engines along with AI models focused specifically on stopping ransomware.
Who we are:
Halcyon was formed in 2021 by a team of cyber industry veterans after battling the scourge of ransomware (and advanced threats) for years at some of the largest global security vendors. Comprised of leaders from Cylance (now Blackberry), Accuvant (now Optiv), Fireye and ISS X-Force (now IBM), Halcyon is focused on building products and solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers.
As a remote-native, completely distributed global team, we recognize great talent can exist anywhere. We invite you to apply to a job you're interested in and we'll work a plan to meet your needs.
Senior Product Manager, Endpoint
Halcyon | Product | Remote, United States | Travel: 30–40%
About Halcyon
Halcyon builds an advanced anti-ransomware platform that enterprise security teams rely on to stop attacks other tools miss. Our agent runs on our customers endpoints, in production, in some of the largest environments in the world. We move quickly and give people real ownership, which only works because we're deliberate about who we bring on
The Role
We are hiring a Senior Product Manager to own our endpoint product area. You will own a meaningful piece of the business: shaping strategy for your area, driving it from problem definition through GA and iteration, and being accountable for the results. You will have a strong voice in where the endpoint product goes, and you will own the tradeoffs that get it there.
Our engineering team is highly technical, and you will work with them daily. Engineering owns the solution design, but you will own the customer outcomes and business objectives. You need to hold your own in those conversations, ask the right questions, and understand why endpoint is its own discipline.
This is a customer-facing role. You will spend real time with enterprise security teams in roadmap reviews, executive briefings, and technical deep dives. You will also work closely with our Sales Architects, Customer Success, Marketing, and Support, who are in front of customers every day and are one of your best sources of signal. Understanding your audience will be key success factor, and you will need to know when to lean into technical aspects but also be able to articulate the value that the technical solutions provide to executive level buyers.
What You'll Own:
The endpoint product area
- Shape the strategy for our endpoint solution and translate company objectives into a roadmap you can defend.
- Define scope, sequence the work, and make the tradeoff calls. Own them when they are questioned and adjust when needed.
- Drive initiatives from discovery through general availability and post-launch iteration through a transparent and collaborative approach.
- Report on outcomes: adoption, retention, deal impact. Shipping is not the finish line.
Customer engagement
- Meet directly with enterprise customers and prospects to validate problems before you commit to solutions.
- Represent the product in roadmap reviews, executive briefings, and technical deep dives with security teams.
- Turn scattered feedback into a defensible point of view, not a wish list.
Cross-functional execution
- Partner with engineering on requirements, architecture discussions, and delivery quality while balancing business priorities.
- Work day to day with our Sales Architects on deal support, technical objections, and what they are hearing in the field.
- Partner with Marketing, Customer Success, and Support so launches land and get adopted.
- Work within Product / UX to ensure aligned prioritization and execution.
- Surface risk early and drive it to resolution instead of reporting it.
Who We're Looking For:
Required
- 5+ years in product management, with several of those years at a senior or lead level owning an
area rather than a queue of assigned features. - Endpoint experience. You have shipped agent-based software that runs on customer machines and you understand the nuances: deployment at scale, performance footprint, OS behavior, telemetry, upgrade and rollback, and what breaks in production.
- B2B enterprise products sold to external customers, in a customer-facing capacity. Not internal tools or platform operations.
- Technical aptitude to work with a highly technical engineering team. You can follow a design
discussion, read an architecture doc, ask the right questions, and push back credibly. - Engineering owns the solution; you must keep up with them and question when necessary.
- A track record you can walk through in detail: what you owned, what you decided, what shipped,and how you it drove business impact.
- Strong written and verbal communication with both engineers and executives.
- Willingness to travel to customers, roughly 30 to 40%, often in concentrated stretches.
Preferred
- Endpoint security or endpoint management background (EDR, EPP, anti-ransomware, systems management) at a vendor where the agent was the product.
- Startup or high-growth environment experience.
- Applied AI or ML in a shipped product.
Benefits:
Halcyon offers the following benefits to eligible employees:
- Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with premiums paid in full for employees and dependents.
- Short and long-term disability coverage, basic life and AD&D insurance plans.
- Medical and dependent care FSA options.
- 401k plan with a generous employer contribution.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Parental leave.
- Generous equity offerings.
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
The expected base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $240,000. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but are not limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, location, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible to participate in our bonus or commission plans, as well as our benefits offers, and equity awards.
In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the range provided is Halcyon's reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. Base pay is one part of the total package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and equity in the Company.
We understand it takes a diverse team of highly intelligent, passionate, curious, and creative people to develop the exceptional product we are building. Our dynamic team has incredible perspectives to share, just as we know you do, and we take great pride in being an equal opportunity employer.
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Product Lead Jobs in San Diego: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a product lead job in San Diego?
Target San Diego's strongest hiring sectors: defense technology contractors in Sorrento Valley, biotech and life sciences companies in Torrey Pines, and enterprise software firms in UTC and Downtown. Candidates who stand out here combine hardware or regulated-industry product experience with strong cross-functional leadership. Networking through UCSD Extension programs and San Diego's active tech meetup community also opens doors that cold applications often don't.
Which companies hire product leads in San Diego?
Companies currently hiring product leads in San Diego include Intuit, Turquoise, and Faro Health, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. San Diego's employer base leans toward defense contractors, medical device makers, and mid-stage tech companies, so product lead roles here often require experience coordinating across engineering, compliance, and go-to-market teams.
Are there remote product lead jobs in San Diego?
Yes, though availability depends on the sector. Product lead work is generally compatible with remote and hybrid arrangements for software and SaaS companies, while defense contractors and medical device firms in San Diego typically require on-site presence due to security or regulatory needs. About 100% of product lead openings tied to San Diego are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, and that share is highest among the UTC and Downtown software employers.
How can I get a product lead job in San Diego with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in San Diego is moving into a product lead role from an adjacent position at a local company, such as associate product manager, business analyst, or technical program coordinator. San Diego's biotech and defense sectors often hire internal candidates into lead roles, so starting at a company like a Torrey Pines life sciences firm or a Sorrento Valley contractor and demonstrating cross-functional ownership is the most direct route locally.
Which industries hire the most product leads in San Diego?
San Diego product lead roles concentrate in Sports & Recreation, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. San Diego's economy is anchored by defense contracts, world-class research institutions, and a maturing biotech cluster, which together create steady demand for product leads who can manage complex, compliance-sensitive product cycles.
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