Product Manager

The Role

Cape is seeking a Product Manager to lead Obscura, our groundbreaking integrated hardware + software product designed for individuals with extreme privacy needs. Your work will directly protect some of the world's most vulnerable people from digital and physical threats.

As the product owner, you will set the vision and roadmap, translating high-stakes customer needs into technical requirements, and guiding a cross-functional team across engineering, design, operations. This role is equal parts strategy, execution, and operations: ensuring we build the right things, at the right time, and getting them into the hands of the people who need them most.

If you thrive at the intersection of first-principles thinking, technical innovation, and mission-driven product building, this role is for you. You will report directly to the Head of Product.

Here are some ways you'll make an impact (also Outcomes of the role):

Own the Roadmap – Build, prioritize, and maintain a living roadmap that reflects customer needs, company strategy, and available resources—driving measurable impact on sales, renewals, and customer trust.

Lead Cross-Functional Execution – Rally engineers, designers, operations, and analysts around clear goals. Remove blockers, resolve tradeoffs, and ensure the team is always working on the highest-impact problems.

Champion the Customer – Be the most knowledgeable person in the company about our Obscura customers and the privacy and security threats they are facing. Many of these customers are the most at-risk individuals in the world where mobile privacy and security are a matter of life and death. Bring their voice into every roadmap decision, ensuring we are solving real-world, high impact problems—not just theoretical ones.

Translate Complexity into Clarity – Understand customer needs and marry that with the technical opportunities and constraints across hardware, software, and cellular networks to produce simple, actionable requirements that give the team confidence in what they're building and why.

Set the bar for quality – Set high standards for what we deliver to customers and implement processes to ensure we meet them.

Manage Supply Chain Complexity – Partner with our operations team to ensure the end-to-end delivery of an integrated hardware/software product: align with vendors, forecast demand, manage inventory, and guarantee consistent, high-quality shipments.

Drive Go-to-Market Readiness – Partner with sales, business development, finance, marketing, and operations to ensure features are successfully launched, adopted, and delivering value.

Are You the Candidate We're Looking For? (Requirements)

You have:

• 6+ years product management experience with a track record of delivering impactful products.

• Cross-functional leadership – skilled at roadmap building, scoping, writing PRDs, running sprints, and unblocking engineers.

• Technical fluency – former engineering experience or proven ability to navigate complex technical conversations across the full stack.

• Vendor & dependency management – experience shipping products reliant on third-party components or partners.

• Strong product intuition – the ability to balance data, user research, and instinct to make smart product tradeoffs.

• Privacy & security expertise – experience working on one or more products where privacy, security and trust are core to the value proposition.

• Exceptional communication skills – able to write, speak, and present with clarity across audiences, from engineers to executives to external partners.

Nice to have:

• Experience building or managing an integrated hardware/software product.

• Previous work in regulated or high-security environments (e.g., federal clearance, defense, intelligence).

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Our benefits include:

• 401(k) match

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents

• 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)

• Stipends for

  • Family-forming needs

  • Gender-affirming care

• Unlimited PTO