Senior Product Manager - Secrets Manager

Bitwarden is the trusted identity security leader for millions of users worldwide, empowering enterprises, developers, and individuals to securely manage and share sensitive information anywhere. Bitwarden makes it easy for all users to extend robust security across their devices with password management, secrets management, and passwordless and passkey innovations. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California with team members located across the globe.

Machine identities now outnumber human ones in most enterprises, and the gap is widening as AI agents take on real work with real credentials. Bitwarden Secrets Manager is how developers and DevOps teams store, rotate, and deliver the machine credentials, API keys, and infrastructure secrets that keep their systems running. It sits at the center of a product line that spans developer secrets, privileged access, and the emerging category of agentic identity security.

This is an all-remote team and we're looking for someone located in the U.S. with no preference for time zone. We do not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

The Role

Bitwarden is looking for a technical Senior Product Manager to own Secrets Manager end to end. You will own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for a developer and DevOps-facing product used by engineering teams to manage secrets across CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and production services.

The category is being redrawn right now. AI agents are becoming first-class consumers of credentials, calling APIs, provisioning infrastructure, and acting on production systems at machine speed and machine volume. The controls built for service accounts and static API keys were not designed for consumers that spin up on demand, chain tool calls, and make decisions without a human in the loop. Answering that—how do you give a non-human consumer the right credential, for the right window, with a clean audit trail, and revoke it the moment it should not have it—is one of the defining identity security problems of the next few years. Bitwarden is investing across the portfolio to solve it, and Secrets Manager is where it lands first for developers. You will own that surface.

You will work customer-backwards. That means talking to developers and platform engineers, understanding how secrets actually move through their systems and how their agentic workloads are already reaching for credentials today, then turning what you learn into a roadmap that wins deals and retains customers. You will partner closely with a dedicated Senior Product Owner who runs the backlog and sprint delivery, which frees you to spend your time on strategy, discovery, positioning, and cross-product coordination.

You will also work in an AI-native way yourself. Our teams use AI tooling across research, spec writing, competitive analysis, and prototyping, and we expect you to push on where it helps and where it does not. Secrets Manager is a growth vector for Bitwarden's broader identity security portfolio, so you will coordinate with our Private Access (PAM) and Agentic Innovation workstreams to keep the product line coherent as privileged access, machine identity, and agent access converge.

Responsibilities

• Own the Secrets Manager roadmap and strategy: Define the vision, set quarterly commitments, and make the prioritization calls. You own the "what" and the "why," and you are accountable for the outcomes.
• Run continuous customer discovery: Talk to developers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams regularly. Mine GitHub issues, community forums, closed-lost deal data, and support signals. Build a defensible point of view on what to build next and be able to show your work.
• Write the documents that drive decisions: Produce PRDs, PR/FAQs, and strategy narratives that hold up under scrutiny from the executive leadership team. Present that thinking directly to executives, customers, and the board.
• Partner with your Product Owner: Hand off well-framed problems and let your PO own backlog quality, sprint planning, and delivery coordination. Stay close enough to unblock scoping decisions without taking the backlog back.
• Own the developer experience across surfaces: SDKs, CLI, Kubernetes operator, Terraform provider, CI/CD integrations, and platform APIs. Decide which integrations matter, in what order, and what "good" looks like for each.
• Deliver agentic credential access in Secrets Manager: Own how agentic identity shows up for developers: how agents authenticate, how credentials get scoped and time-bounded, and what the audit trail looks like when the actor is a model rather than a person.
• Partner on go-to-market: Work with product marketing, sales, and solutions engineering on positioning, competitive response, pricing and packaging input, and launch readiness.
• Measure outcomes, not output: Instrument the product. Track adoption, activation, integration usage, expansion, and retention. Use data to double down on what works and retire what doesn't.

What You Bring to Bitwarden

• Developer product experience: 5+ years in product management, with meaningful time spent owning a developer-facing, DevOps, or infrastructure product that developers chose to adopt.
• Technical depth: Working familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, SDK specs, and API documentation.
• Security-first orientation: Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access policies, audit logging, and credential lifecycle. Background in secrets management, PAM, or identity is a plus.
• Strategic ownership: Demonstrated ownership of a roadmap where you made hard prioritization calls and comfort operating alongside a dedicated delivery partner.
• AI-native working style: Practical experience using AI tools (e.g., Anthropic Claude) to accelerate research, spec writing, and prototyping, plus insight into agentic credential security.
• Strong communicator: Proven ability to write clearly for technical and executive audiences and collaborate across engineering, marketing, and sales.
• Open source fluency: Comfort building in public with transparent roadmaps, code, and community discussions.

Interview Process

• Meeting with Recruiting Manager
• Interview with Director of New Products (hiring manager)
• Interview with Chief Product Officer
• Interview with peer Senior and Principal Product Managers

Compensation

In the United States, the starting base compensation range for this role is $165,000 - $200,000. Actual compensation may vary based on experience and skill set.