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. Learn more at bitwarden.com.
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. We work backwards from the customer problem and we write our thinking down. You will also present that thinking directly to executives, customers, and the board, so both the writing and the presenting need to be strong. These are core competencies of this role, not nice-to-haves.
- 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: Bitwarden's agentic identity strategy spans password management, secrets, and privileged access, and is owned by a peer PM. You own how it 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. You will shape that strategy as the developer-surface owner and you are accountable for shipping it.
- Partner on go-to-market: Work with product marketing, sales, and solutions engineering on positioning, competitive response, pricing and packaging input, and launch readiness. Be the person sales calls when a technical deal is on the line.
- Measure outcomes, not output: Instrument the product. Track adoption, activation, integration usage, expansion, and retention. Use that data to kill things that are not working and double down on things that are.
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. You have shipped things developers chose to adopt, not things they were told to use.
- Technical depth: You can read API documentation, SDK specs, and architecture diagrams and hold your own in a design discussion. Working familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code. You do not need to write production code, but you should be able to use the product the way a customer would.
- Security-first orientation: Understanding of authentication, authorization, access policies, audit logging, and credential lifecycle. Secrets management, PAM, or identity background is a strong plus. Adjacent infrastructure experience is enough if the security instincts are there.
- Strategic ownership: Demonstrated ownership of a roadmap where you made the hard calls, said no to real requests, and can explain the reasoning behind both. Comfort operating with a delivery partner rather than running the backlog yourself.
- AI-native working style: Practical experience using AI tools to accelerate research, spec writing, competitive analysis, and prototyping (Anthropic Claude preferred), plus a point of view on what agentic workloads mean for credential security.
- Strong communicator: Ability to write clearly and concisely for technical and executive audiences, and to collaborate directly with engineering leadership, product marketing, and sales.
- Open source fluency: Comfort working in public. Our roadmap, our code, and our community conversations are visible, and that changes how you build.
WHY BITWARDEN?
Bitwarden has built something rare in tech: a mission-driven company that proves open-source transparency and enterprise-grade security are both compatible and a competitive necessity. Secrets Manager sits in a market that is expanding quickly, and you would be joining at the point where the product line, the strategy, and the team are all being defined. You will have real ownership, direct access to executive decision makers, and work that ships to millions of users worldwide.
WHAT TO EXPECT IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS
- Meeting with our Recruiting Manager
- Interview with Director of New Products (hiring manager)
- Interview with Chief Product Officer
- Interview with peer Senior and Principal Product Managers
A FEW REASONS TO WORK WITH US
- Our user community loves us and we love them. Come to work each day with a sense of purpose as we bring a more secure internet experience to everyone from our friends and family to the world's largest organizations.
- Become an expert. You'll get immersed in the prominent technology markets of security and open source software.
- We are dedicated to building a diverse and talented team. Work remotely with motivated and supportive team members across the world.
- Learn and grow. Take on new challenges with the support of your team.
In the United States, the starting base compensation range for this role is $165,000 - $200,000. Actual compensation may vary based on level, relevant experience, and skill set as assessed in the interview process, as well as market data by location. See our careers page for a list of benefits. Please note that compensation outside the U.S. will differ based on the market.
