Technical Product Manager - Paris Office

Who are we?

Escape is one of Europe's fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, backed by Y Combinator, building AI-powered automated penetration testing that finds vulnerabilities before attackers do. We've secured dozens of prestigious enterprise customers, are growing 15%+ MoM.

We operate with a US go-to-market playbook (product-led, fast iteration cycles, aggressive growth targets) combined with deep European engineering DNA. Our 15-person engineering team ships weekly, owns what they build, and solves hard problems at the intersection of security, distributed systems, and AI.

Job description:

👉 We are seeking a Technical Product Manager to join Escape and drive the evolution of our security platform. This role is central to shaping what we build, why we build it, and how it delivers value to our customers. This is a high-impact execution leadership role reporting directly to the CTO (and working closely with the CEO), Your mission is to turn the company strategy into exceptional shipping, customer-backed specs, and flawless releases.

As Lead Product Manager, you will work closely with engineering, security research, and go-to-market teams to ensure Escape remains best-in-class in application security, while scaling as a B2B SaaS product.

Context

• Location: Paris (75002), 2 days remote/week
• Company: Escape – Leading AI Cybersecurity Startup
• Cofounders: CEO (Tristan Kalos) and CTO (Antoine Carossio)
• You’ll be leading and growing the product team (currently 1 PO) and report directly to Antoine (CTO), in tandem with Mathieu (Head of Engineering) and the 4 leads of the tech teams.
• Engineering Team: 15 Engineers, 4 Technical Leads

Key Responsibilities:

• Customer-Centric Discovery: Engage directly with customers and prospects to understand their pain points, validate assumptions, and inform product decisions through qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Feature conception: Turn problems and feedback into well-scoped feature proposals, flows, and detailed specs without owning top-level product strategy.
• Execution, Delivery & QA: Translate product strategy into clear, actionable requirements, working closely with engineering teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a central point of coordination between engineering, security research, sales, and marketing to align on priorities, trade-offs, and outcomes.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to other product managers, helping establish strong product practices and a shared culture of ownership and accountability.
• Security Domain Understanding: Develop and maintain a strong understanding of application security concepts to make informed product and prioritization decisions.
• Marketing coordination: Translate upcoming releases into crisp persona/why/what messaging and coordinate timelines so Marketing can launch effectively.

Perks

• 💸 Significant equity (Stock Options/BSCPE), making you a true stakeholder in our success.
• ❤️‍🩹 Top-tier health insurance with Alan
• 🍕 Meal vouchers with a Swile
• 💪 Sport subscription with EGYM Wellpass (ex Gymlib)
• 📚 A place to learn and grow: Access to books and online courses to help you excel in your role
• 💻 Top-tier equipment to do your best work
• 🎁 Free time to work on cool Open Source Projects.
• 🌎 Opportunities to present research and engineering work at international conferences like RSAC, BSides, BlackHat, DEFCON, APIDays (New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona)

We respect your time and will make it quick and efficient. The entire process will be completed within 1 week.

🤓 1 meeting with the HR representative - 30 minutes

💻 Technical challenge

🤔 1 technical deep dive with the Technical Lead - 1 hour

👋 1 personal experience interview the Head of Engineering - 1 hour

👀 1 leadership & strategy interview the CTO - 30 minutes

💌 Formal hiring proposal.