Staff Product Manager, Activation

• Define the future of agentic AI onboarding at Vanta, including how the Vanta Agent can guide customers, complete setup on their behalf, and ultimately help run their security and compliance program.

• Own and drive the self-serve onboarding experience for startups and downmarket customers. You will be the single accountable owner for creating a coherent, high-converting journey from first interaction through meaningful product adoption.

• Partner across Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Account Management to build one scalable self-serve program across products and packaging.

• Work across Vanta's product teams to make it effortless for customers to discover, configure, and adopt Vanta's products and platform capabilities as their needs evolve.

• Establish the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for product activation and onboarding across the customer lifecycle

• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, and GTM teams to define success metrics, identify friction, run experiments, and improve activation and time-to-value

• Own the whole outcome. You will own a massive surface area spanning multiple departments, organizations, products, and customer segments. You feel accountable for creating one singular, coherent experience that makes Vanta feel seamless from the outside.

• Speak fluent GTM and Account Management. While we are building a self-serve motion, it must operate as one program across the customer segment. You understand how and when Sales, Customer Success, and Account Management should engage, and how to design the right handoffs between product-led and service-supported experiences.

• Earn trust quickly. As Vanta's product surface expands, you will work with PMs, designers, engineers, marketers, sales leaders, customer success partners, and account teams across the company. You build strong relationships quickly and bring people together around a clear customer and business outcome.

• Think in systems. You can connect individual onboarding moments to the broader platform, lifecycle, data, and operating systems required to support them at scale.

• Operate with clarity and conviction. You are comfortable making decisions in ambiguous environments, communicating tradeoffs, and creating momentum across teams without relying on formal authority.

• Build for the future. You are excited by the opportunity to define an AI-native and agentic onboarding experience, and you are thoughtful about how agents can safely and effectively help customers run their security programs.

• Uses AI in day-to-day work to amplify their skills and strengthen their outcomes, applying it across routine workflows, actively building fluency through experimentation, and exercising sound judgment to ensure AI-assisted work meets a high quality bar.

• Industry-competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans

• 16 weeks paid Parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness stipend

• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend

• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office

• Family planning benefits

• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting

• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time

• 11 company-paid holidays

• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, Tel Aviv, and Sydney

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