Data Classification Jobs in California (NOW HIRING)

Role We are looking for a Senior Product Manager (AI / Data Classification) to join our team. This is a hybrid, based in San Jose, CA (3 days onsite) role, reporting to the VP, Product Management DSPM in the Data Protection department. We're looking for a Product Manager to lead data classification capabilities within a Data Security platform. You'll own the end-to-end product strategy for discovering and classifying sensitive data across cloud, on-prem data stores and SaaS applications, turning classification outcomes into actionable risk reduction for security, privacy, and compliance teams.

What you'll do (Role Expectations)

• Partner closely with engineering, data science/ML, design, sales, and customer success to deliver accurate, scalable classification, clear policy outcomes, and measurable customer value

• Own the classification taxonomy, labeling standards, and policy model covering custom categories, confidence thresholds, inheritance, overrides, and exceptions

• Drive accuracy improvements by managing precision/recall targets, sampling strategies, tuning workflows, and customer feedback loops

• Set requirements for scanning at enterprise scale to optimize cost, latency, and coverage across billions of objects and large data tables

• Define how the platform combines pattern-based detectors, NLP/ML, and LLM-assisted classification for structured and unstructured data

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You thrive in ambiguity. You're comfortable building the path as you walk it. You thrive in a dynamic environment, seeing ambiguity not as a hindrance, but as the raw material to build something meaningful.

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. True ownership involves leveraging dynamic range: the ability to navigate seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.

• You are a problem-solver. You love running towards the challenges because you are laser-focused on finding the solution, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.

• You are a high-trust collaborator. You are ambitious for the team, not just yourself. You embrace our challenge culture by giving and receiving ongoing feedback-knowing that candor delivered with clarity and respect is the truest form of teamwork and the fastest way to earn trust.

• You are a learner. You have a true growth mindset and are obsessed with your own development, actively seeking feedback to become a better partner and a stronger teammate. You love what you do and you do it with purpose.

What We're Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions to optimize outcomes within your functional domain

• Product management experience with meaningful ownership of data security/privacy products, or equivalent data science experience

• Demonstrated experience shipping production products utilizing AI/ML or LLMs with a strong understanding of data classification approaches across structured and unstructured data

• Expertise in evaluation and quality measurement for classification systems, including building and maintaining golden datasets

• Experience designing human-in-the-loop workflows for high-stakes labels and driving large-scale AI cost/performance tradeoffs

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Advanced experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) or fine-tuning models specifically optimized for automated data privacy compliance and sensitive data discovery

• Familiarity with embedding-based similarity, semantic retrieval, vector DBs, and maintaining strong technical collaboration with ML engineering and data science teams

• Prior work in DSPM/DLP/CASB/insider risk environments where false negatives have a high blast radius and you have successfully designed processes to manage that risk

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