Technical Product Owner | Mid-Senior | Threat Intelligence

Details

Meet NordVPN Threat Protection, the product which makes NordVPN app more than a VPN. This innovative product enhances online security by protecting users from scams, phishing attempts, and other malicious activities. Additionally, it bolsters user privacy and enriches the web browsing experience by eliminating intrusive ads.
Our technology, along with our internal tools and products, is essential to our operations. Without them, we would be unable to achieve our objectives, making their importance paramount.
Your primary objective is to manage internal products and tools while exploring innovative approaches for enhancement. Effective monitoring is crucial to ensure that internal products deliver the anticipated results with the desired quality.
Collaboration primarily occurs with engineering managers, data scientists, developers, and DevOps professionals. Therefore, possessing technical skills is essential.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the roadmap for internal detection products (phishing, scam, malware, etc.).
• Ensure detection systems meet high standards for precision and recall, minimizing false positives/negatives.
• Support integration of detection capabilities into broader NordVPN infrastructure.
• Partner with data scientists to define requirements for training, validating, and deploying ML models.
• Ensure high-quality labeled data pipelines for model accuracy and robustness.
• Collaborate on model evaluation frameworks to track real-world performance and drift.
• Facilitate experimentation and rapid iteration on detection algorithms and heuristics.
• Oversee ingestion, validation, and prioritization of data from paid, open-source, and internal threat feeds.
• Build systems to correlate signals across feeds and flag anomalies or inconsistencies.
• Maintain tools and processes that streamline curation workflows and reduce manual overhead.
• Ensure transparency and traceability in decisions affecting detection confidence.
• Act as a bridge between security research, engineering, data, and product leadership.
• Translate business and operational needs into clear technical requirements.
• Drive alignment across stakeholders on trade-offs, priorities, and delivery timelines.
• Ensure clarity around ownership, goals, and impact of each threat intel product stream.
• Lead backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives with technical teams.
• Prioritize work based on business value, tech feasibility, and detection effectiveness.
• Track product KPIs (e.g., detection accuracy, false positive rate, latency) and adapt roadmap accordingly.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Proven experience as Technical Product Owner in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or data-heavy environments.
• Solid understanding of threat intelligence, detection systems, and ML-driven security products.
• Ability to evaluate technical trade-offs and make informed, data-based decisions.
• Experienced in tracking performance metrics such as detection accuracy or false positive rates.
• Strong communication skills to align technical and non-technical teams around shared goals.
• Proven experience leading Agile teams and managing product backlogs.
• Technical education in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields is a plus.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Salary

Monthly gross salary from 4700 - 6700 EUR.