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VP of Products & Platform - AI/Security

Opswat

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About this role

OPSWAT , a global leader in IT, OT , and ICS critical infrastructure cybersecurity, delivers an end-to-end platform that gives public and private sector organizations and enterprises the critical advantage needed to protect their complex networks, secure their devices, and ensure compliance. Over the last 20 years our commitment to innovative technology has earned the trust of more than 1,700 organizations, governments, and institutions globally, solidifying our role in protecting the world’s critical infrastructure and securing our way of life.

The Position: VP of Products & Platform

MetaDefender Core | Enterprise Shared Services | Platform Architecture | AI-First Operations Protecting the World's Critical Infrastructure

Every MetaDefender product runs on a common foundation, this role's domain. The VP of Platform will transform it into the definitive substrate that every product team builds on, every customer deploys with confidence, and every enterprise buyer trusts to meet their most demanding requirements.

But foundation is not an ambition - category is. This role owns the platform that defines what File Security means as an enterprise discipline, distinct from and irreducible to "antivirus." You will be expected to grow this into a business with its own gravity: a named market category that OPSWAT leads, not a feature that competes inside someone else's.

This is also an AI-first mandate. You will build a platform where agentic capability is native in the product, in operations, and in how the platform team itself works, and you will use AI as the primary lever to drive organizational change and adoption velocity across the company.

This is not a maintenance role. It directly shapes how every product in the MetaDefender portfolio ships, deploys, and operates. You will own the most horizontally impactful technology in the company; few platform roles touch this much surface area. Product leaders at OPSWAT stay close to the technology — you'll work alongside peers who read code, challenge architectures, and ship.

What You'll Be Doing

• MetaDefender Core — Product Strategy & Technical Direction

MetaDefender Core is the center of OPSWAT's File Security ecosystem — Deep Content Disarm & Reconstruction (CDR), multi-scanning across 30+ engines, file-based vulnerability assessment, dynamic analysis with next-gen sandbox, and many other layers, across billions of files for the world's most security-conscious organizations.

• Own the technical vision for Core's evolution: modular multi-engine orchestration, processing throughput, format coverage, and API extensibility.

• Frame Core as the engine of File Security, not a scanner. Articulate at the platform level why protecting the complex enterprise file ecosystem (ingest, transfer, storage, collaboration, supply chain) requires layered, defense-in-depth file analysis, and why single-engine antivirus is structurally insufficient.

• Drive strategy to serve new file modalities, archives, encrypted containers, firmware, ML/AI model files as the attack surface expands.

• Ensure Core's architecture enables adjacent products rather than constraining them.

• Shape the growth trajectory with a path toward full P&L ownership as the role and platform mature.

• Enterprise Shared Services — The Foundational Platform Layer

This is the highest-leverage work at OPSWAT: the unified platform every mature MetaDefender product adopts for a consistent, enterprise-grade experience. Your mandate: make adoption a choice teams make willingly, not a mandate they resent.

Shared Services spans the cross-cutting capabilities every product would otherwise rebuild — installation & deployment (online, offline/air-gapped, headless, automated), identity & access (SSO, RBAC, SAML/OIDC, federation), configuration & policy , observability , reporting & audit , HA/DR, and zero-downtime scale , and shared, brand-compatible, language-agnostic UI components. You own the strategy, the developer experience, and the adoption outcome — not a feature checklist.

Success is measured in voluntary adoption: peer teams integrate because it is the fastest, safest path to enterprise-readiness.

• AI-First Platform & Agentic Operations

• Make agentic capability a native primitive of the platform — exposed to product teams as a service, not bolted on per product.

• Embed AI across the operational surface: triage, configuration, deployment, observability, and customer time-to-value.

• Use AI to drive organizational change — accelerate engineering velocity, internal adoption, documentation, and decision speed across teams. You are expected to model what an AI-first product org looks like.

• Hold the line on rigor: define where human-in-the-loop is mandatory, design for AI failure modes, and prevent "AI theater" that adds risk without measurable value.

• Category & Business Leadership

• Treat the platform as a business , not a cost center: own the narrative, the positioning, and ultimately the P&L.

• Define and lead the File Security category — language, reference architectures, buyer education, and competitive framing that make OPSWAT the default answer.

• Translate platform capability into enterprise buyer value and pricing leverage.

• Enterprise Deployment & Infrastructure Expertise

OPSWAT's customers operate in some of the most constrained and regulated environments on Earth. This role requires deep fluency in how enterprise software is deployed, operated, and maintained:

• On-Premises: Internet-connected and fully air-gapped, across Windows and Linux.

• Cloud & IaaS: AWS, Azure, GCP — marketplace offerings, reference architectures, cloud-native integrations.

• Kubernetes & Containers: Helm, operators, cloud-agnostic deployment patterns.

• Hybrid & Edge: Centralized management with distributed processing across environments.

What You'll Do in the First 12 Months

• Audit & Roadmap (Months 1–3): Deep-dive into Shared Services adoption, Core architecture, deployment

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