Product Management Lead, Private Sector

Waterloo / Ottawa / Toronto/ Ontario

Research and Development – Product Management /

Full-Time /

Hybrid

Who We Are; What We Do; Where We’re Going

Magnet Forensics is a global leader in the development of digital investigative software that acquires, analyzes, and shares evidence from computers, smartphones, tablets, and IoT-related devices. We are continually innovating so our customers can deploy advanced and effective tools to protect their companies, communities, and countries.

Serving thousands of customers globally, our solutions are playing a crucial role in modernizing digital investigations, helping investigators fight crime, protect assets, and guard national security.

With employees based around the world, Magnet Forensics has been expanding our global presence. As a part of Magnet Forensics, you can expect to make a difference in the world, no matter what role you play. You’ll be supported through learning and development, not to mention an incredible team with unbelievable talent and integrity.

If you think you would be the right person to join our team working towards this goal, we would love to hear from you!

Role Overview

Magnet Forensics is redefining how enterprise DFIR integrates with modern cybersecurity operations. This role gives you the opportunity to shape the next generation of enterprise DFIR capabilities and drive strategic growth across our private sector portfolio.

As Product Management Lead, Private Sector, you will own the strategy and execution of a new enterprise DFIR and cybersecurity offering. You’ll partner closely with customers, prospects, and internal teams to define, validate, and deliver solutions that solve real-world challenges and create measurable business impact. You’ll also collaborate with the Director of Product Management and peer PMs to advance Magnet’s next generation platform.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with broad exposure, perfect for someone who thrives on complexity, collaboration, and delivering measurable results.

What You'll Do

• Own the strategy: Define and drive the product vision, long-term roadmap, and success metrics for your product.
• Master the market: Develop deep expertise in enterprise DFIR, cybersecurity workflows, competitive dynamics, and emerging trends to inform strategic decisions.
• Deliver a compelling offer: Translate market insights into a differentiated, scalable product offering that aligns with customer needs and business goals.
• Navigate competing priorities: Make thoughtful tradeoffs across scope, quality, and timelines while maintaining alignment with strategic objectives.
• Drive clarity: Break down ambiguous problem spaces into structured, actionable plans that create alignment at the leadership level and enable teams to execute with confidence.
• Drive customer insight: Engage directly with customers and prospects through virtual conversations, onsite visits, workshops, and discovery sessions to deeply understand their workflows, pain points, and unmet needs.
• Lead strategic visibility & alignment: Identify and track critical metrics to track success and provide clear, outcome focused communication to executive stakeholders and cross functional partners to articulate progress against strategic goals.
• Collaborate across teams: Partner with engineering, UX, and other PMs to ensure experiences are intuitive, consistent, and aligned with key personas.
• Influence cross functionally: Build strong relationships with GTM, customer success, support, and leadership to drive alignment and optimize results.
• Leverage AI for product development: Utilize AI-powered tools to accelerate requirements gathering, user story creation, and specification development, ensuring clarity and completeness while improving efficiency.
• Travel: 5-15%.

What We're Looking For

• Experience : 7-10 years in product management, ideally with enterprise SaaS products.
• Technical Acumen : Ability to work closely with engineering teams to understand cloud-native solution architectures and evaluate trade‑offs across complexity, scalability, and customer value; prior technical experience is a plus.
• Cybersecurity domain experience : Experience managing products and familiarity cybersecurity workflows, enterprise security operations, or adjacent security domains; prior technical experience is a plus.
• Analytical Mindset : Skilled at interpreting market data, customer insights, and usage metrics to drive decisions.
• Influence & Communication : Strong collaboration skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Ownership mindset : Act as the champion for your product, anticipating challenges, removing obstacles, and driving momentum across teams to achieve meaningful business results.
• AI-Driven Product Development : Hands-on experience using AI tools for requirements gathering, user story generation, and specification writing. Familiarity with prompt engineering and leveraging AI for accelerating product documentation and ideation.

Nice to Have Skills

• Industry experience in Digital Forensics, and deeper hands-on exposure to cybersecurity product, practitioner, or enterprise security workflows.
• Experience with Pragmatic Marketing, Design Thinking, Jobs To Be Done, or equivalent.
• Exposure to AI-driven product management workflows or tools (e.g., for backlog grooming, persona development, or competitive analysis).
• Experience in Agile development and familiarity with common agile, product management, and user analytics tooling including Jira, Aha, and Amplitude.

Compensation & Benefits

The Compensation range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. Please note that the actual compensation may vary depending on location and job-related factors such as qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location and you are selected for an interview, the Talent Acquisition Partner can share more information with you. If the compensation structure for the role includes an incentive component (i.e. most Sales roles) the range below represents total target compensation (TTC) (base salary + variable).

$150,000 - $200,000 (CAD) a year

Salary range (min - max)

Position Type: Current Vacancy

Magnet is proud to offer benefits such as:

• Generous time off policies

• Competitive compensation

• Volunteer opportunities

• Reward and recognition programs

• Employee committees & resource groups

• Healthcare and retirement benefits

Indicators of Success

We’re looking for someone who checks off most, but not all, of the boxes listed in “skills and experiences”. It’s more important to us to find candidates who can display indicators of success through skills they have developed and experiences they have been a part of, than to find folks who have “been there, done that”. We want to be part of your development journey, and we’ll learn as much from you as you learn from us.

How We Work

At Magnet Forensics, we take a hybrid-flexible approach to support your productivity and work-life balance. If you’re within a comfortable travel distance to one of our offices, you’ll occasionally join us in person. How often you’ll come in depends on your department and team needs, typically ranging from weekly to monthly. These in-person moments help us build stronger connections, spark new ideas, and celebrate our successes together. Most days, you can choose what works best for you, while staying in tune with your team’s goals.

We’re excited to welcome you to our team and look forward to achieving great things together - both in the office and wherever you work best!

The Most Important Thing

We’re looking for candidates that can provide examples of how they have demonstrated Magnet CODE in their previous experiences:

CARE – We care about each other and our mission to make a difference in the world.

OWN – We are accountable for our results – while never forgetting to act with integrity, empathy, and respect.

DEDICATE – We put our heart and soul into meeting the needs of our customers and helping them serve the people they protect.

EVOLVE – We are constantly innovating and exploring new ways to work together to make an impact with our work.

Here at Magnet Forensics, we are committed to continuous learning and are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. This commitment will be reflected in our hiring processes and embedded in our values and how we treat one another. If you’re interested in this role, but do not meet all of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply anyways. Magnet Forensics is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, provincial, or local law. We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and work environment. Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request throughout the hiring process. Please contact [email protected]should you require any accommodations.All offers of employment at Magnet are contingent upon satisfactory completion of a background check. All background checks will be conducted in accordance with all applicable laws. Magnet will consider each position’s job duties, among other factors, in determining what constitutes satisfactory completion of the background check. Refusal to consent to a background check may be grounds for revoking an offer of employment.

US Applicants: Magnet Forensics participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Magnet Forensics handles and uses personal data of job applicants in line with its Recruitment Privacy Policy found here .

Magnet does not use artificial intelligence (defined as a machine-based system that infers from input to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions) for screening, assessing, or selecting applicants. Should this practice change, we will update this disclosure accordingly.