Product Manager, Security & Compliance

About Tailscale

Tailscale is building the new Internet by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. We're building a future for the Internet that's easy, sensible, and safe, like it used to be. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, we're backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

Position Overview

We’re looking for a thoughtful and technically curious Product Manager to join the team at Tailscale, initially focused on Security & Compliance. Reporting directly to the Group Product Manager overseeing our largest offering, you’ll join a supportive team of senior product leaders who are deeply committed to your growth and success.

You’ll begin by owning clearly defined workflows around device approvals and posture enforcement, key features that help Tailscale confidently serve regulated customers such as banks and healthcare providers. As you build confidence, your responsibilities will expand into broader security and compliance areas of the product.

At Tailscale, we believe even security should feel intuitive and elegant. You’ll apply your foundational compliance and security knowledge, along with strong product taste, to design intuitive onboarding experiences, streamlined approval notifications, and actionable audit trails.

While this role is open to current product managers, we are also interested in candidates who are not product managers but are currently in security-focused design, solutions engineering, or other customer-facing roles and ready to step into product management. You’ll have structured mentorship from a senior product leader, including regular 1:1s, and dedicated support from experienced teams in product management, sales, marketing, and customer success.

Key Responsibilities

• Initially own specific workflows, such as MDM/EDR integrations and posture checks, with clear support from senior PMs and engineers.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and design teams to create intuitive compliance workflows, frictionless device onboarding, and actionable audit experiences.
• Write clear product requirements, manage your feature backlog, and actively work to enable multiple engineering teams.
• Regularly engage directly with customers (approximately 25% of your time), supported by Sales and Customer Success teams, through structured interviews and shadowing existing customer interactions.
• Collaborate with design, engineering and UXR to translate enterprise security and compliance requirements into simple, user-friendly experiences.

What We Are Looking For

• Required: 1-3 years in a product management or customer facing role with foundational exposure to security standards, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR), and relevant industry best practices.
• Required: Solid foundational knowledge in at least one of the following areas: device approvals, posture checks, RBAC, ACL management, audit logging, along with an eagerness to quickly learn the others.
• Required: At least 3 hours of overlap in daily working hours with our UK-based engineering team.
• Comfortable learning and engaging hands-on with the product at the command line.
• Excellent written communication skills, especially when crafting clear, actionable product requirements and documentation.
• Strong interpersonal skills. You genuinely enjoy collaborating cross-functionally, particularly with sales, marketing, and customer-facing teams.
• Empathy for users, instinctively prioritizing clear, intuitive, and enjoyable experiences, even within technical contexts.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architectures, VPNs, identity providers, or related security products.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code or DevSecOps tooling, ex: GitOps, Terraform.
• Experience working with

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