156K–221K USD / year
Product Manager, Aperture
ProductRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-13
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About this role
Lead product strategy for Aperture, Tailscale’s AI gateway for visibility and control over organizational AI use. As the first dedicated product manager for Aperture, you’ll work with the co-founder, customers, and an AI-native engineering team to mature the early-stage product and support safe enterprise AI adoption.
About the company
Tailscale builds a zero-config mesh VPN on WireGuard so teams can securely connect devices, servers, and cloud resources without traditional VPN complexity.
The team
Aperture
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What you'll do
- Shape the product roadmap with the co-founder and engineering team.
- Translate customer AI governance and security needs into product requirements.
- Balance rapid prototyping with production reliability.
- Represent Aperture with customers, partners, and the community.
- Track adoption, usage, and product-market-fit metrics.
- Partner with GTM and Customer Success on pricing and sales motion.
What we're looking for
- 3–5 years of product management or relevant technical customer-facing experience, including early-stage or 0-to-1 work.
- Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
- Experience building for technical buyers such as IT, security, or platform teams.
- Strong technical fluency, including identity, security, and AI-agent workflows.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to have
- Product experience in AI/LLM infrastructure, developer tools, or identity/security.
- Familiarity with AI gateways such as LiteLLM, Portkey, Kong AI Gateway, or Cloudflare AI Gateway.
- Experience developing pricing and a repeatable sales motion for a new product category.
- Public technical writing, conference talks, or community engagement.
- Hands-on experience with Tailscale.
Benefits
- Equity incentive plan.
- Health, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families.
- Remote-first work and a corporate coworking program.
- Employer retirement contributions matched dollar-for-dollar up to 0.75% of eligible compensation.
- $1,500 annual professional development budget.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Company laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 workstation allowance.
- Paid parental leave: 20 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.