Senior Product Manager - SOC Agentic Automation

Senior Product Manager - SOC Agentic Automation

Telefónica
Telefónica
SpainCompetitiveOn-siteAdded 10 days agoSenior🇪🇸Spanish: Fluent🇬🇧English: Required

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About the role

What will your mission be? 🎯

Cybersecurity is being redefined by AI, the exponential escalation of threats, and geopolitical pressure toward greater European sovereignty. Leading in this environment is no longer about incremental evolution, but about the ability to rethink how cybersecurity capabilities are designed, operated, and scaled.

Telefónica is driving the AI Native SOC initiative, which aims to transform the traditional SOC toward the AI-Native paradigm, where data, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity analysts work as a single operating system capable of learning, adapting, and generating continuous value. One of the key workstreams of the AI-Native SOC initiative is SOC Agentic Automation, where we combine deterministic mechanisms and AI agents applied to cybersecurity operations.

As Senior Product Manager – SOC Agentic Automation, your mission will be to lead the SOC Automation product domain: define and bring to production automation capabilities, agents, and AI workflows that improve security operations and accelerate the evolution of the AI-Native SOC model.

What you'll do

How will your capabilities contribute to the purpose of the role? 💼

Define the vision, roadmap, and priorities of the SOC Agentic Automation domain, in alignment with the AI Native SOC strategy.

Decide what the squad builds and in what order: write the PRDs, define success criteria, and resolve scope trade-offs when they arise. Sign off on what is ready for production and drive the execution pace of the multidisciplinary squad.

Coordinate the functional definition and evolution of agents, automations, and AI capabilities applied to triage, enrichment, classification, escalation, analyst support, and operational automation.

Lead the SOC Automation product domain end-to-end, from conception to production and scale, alongside a multidisciplinary team of engineering, AI, and design. Be accountable for the KPIs that move the product and make the product decisions needed to impact them.

Translate real SOC operational needs into prioritized use cases, product capabilities, and automation workflows, starting from concrete N1, N2, N3, and CSIRT problems.

Define success metrics and domain tracking, including adoption, operational efficiency, reduction of manual work, quality of outcomes, and scalability.

Provide product and SOC operations context to architecture and technology decisions, collaborating with the Head of Software and the Data & AI Lead on data platforms, AI pipelines, and cybersecurity tools (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, Threat Intelligence).

Work cross-functionally with Telefónica Tech and strategic customers in co-creation, validation, and operational implementation contexts, ensuring alignment between strategy, product, and delivery.

What we're looking for

What capabilities are we looking for in you?

Operational SOC experience: real knowledge of how a SOC works, where the bottlenecks are, which tasks can be automated meaningfully, and how N1, N2, N3, and CSIRT models behave in practice.

Security automation and workflows: experience working with triage, enrichment, escalation, investigation, or response, and with automation capabilities applied to these flows.

Product and technology strategy: ability to structure problems, translate operational needs into clear product decisions, and build roadmaps prioritized by impact and feasibility.

Product development and delivery: experience guiding digital product development, defining scope, user stories, and priorities, and working with modern product methodologies.

Knowledge of the cybersecurity ecosystem: solid understanding of cybersecurity domains, architectures, and platforms, with the ability to reason about operating models.

Basic knowledge of AI and data: familiarity with AI and data concepts applied to cybersecurity, and with the secure operation of AI capabilities (guardrails, observability, evaluation). You don't need to master these technologies—you will work with specialized team members—but you are expected to be comfortable using them.

Technical fluency: ability to credibly engage with engineering, data, and AI teams on architectures, APIs, integrations, pipelines, and deployment, without needing to be a hands-on developer.

Relevant experience in cybersecurity (SOC environments, SecOps, detection engineering, incident response, or security automation).

Proven experience in product management and/or technical programs, with the ability to take capabilities from idea to production.

Nice to have

The person will join an environment where SOC operations, automation, cybersecurity platforms, data, and applied AI intersect. Familiarity with the following will be especially valued:

SOAR, SIEM, EDR, and response workflows.

Data capabilities, dashboards, KPIs, and AI agents applied to operations.

Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Netskope, Cloudflare, or Fortinet platforms.

Automation and infrastructure such as Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes, APIs, and observability.

What other aspects do we value? 📚

Previous experience in MSSPs, large SOCs, or cybersecurity operations transformation programs.

Having evolved from a practitioner role (SOC analyst, detection engineer, SecOps engineer, SOAR engineer, or similar) toward real product ownership.

Experience with agents, copilots, AI workflows, or assisted operations capabilities in security contexts.

Experience working with enterprise customers or in co-creation environments with delivery and operations teams.

Education & certifications

University degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related technical field, providing a solid foundation for understanding and addressing the technical aspects of the role.

Specific training in cybersecurity vendors or MSSPs.

Technical cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISA, or similar.

Languages

High level of Spanish and English, enabling effective communication and collaboration in multinational environments, including leading meetings and workshops.

What you'll get

What benefits will you enjoy by joining our team? 💙

Transformative projects. At Telefónica, you will be part of high-impact projects that set trends and respond to the connectivity and digital transformation challenges of our society.

Professional development. You will have a long career path and learning opportunities on a global scale, thanks to our presence in different geographies. We will share development opportunities, training, and mobility options with you. We want to grow and build a future with you!

Flexibility. We believe in work-life balance. At Telefónica, we take care of flexibility, positioning ourselves as a benchmark in new ways of working and work-life balance measures.

27 working days of vacation to enjoy.

Social benefits. You will enjoy a broad package of social benefits, including:

Life and accident insurance

Medical insurance for you and your family unit (spouse and children)

Meal voucher card

Flexible compensation plan with numerous options to choose from.

Pension plan

How you'll work

NATURE OF THE PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES

You will operate in highly ambiguous environments, where problems are not fully defined and solutions must be built from first principles. The ability to structure complexity and make informed decisions in a timely manner is essential.

You will need to make quick decisions autonomously, with few precedents and no established playbooks, which requires strong ownership, resilience, and a clear bias toward execution and impact.

The role sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and cybersecurity operations, which requires shifting context between executive conversations and hands-on product and technical challenges, working with multidisciplinary teams.

full-time

About the company & team

We connect the present. We transform the future.

Have you ever wondered what makes it possible for millions of people to be connected at the same time, from anywhere in the world, without anything failing?

At Telefónica, we make it possible.

We are a global telecommunications and technology company that connects people, businesses, and communities through next-generation networks and advanced digital solutions such as cloud, artificial intelligence, IoT, and cybersecurity.

With a track record of more than 100 years, we work every day to put innovation at the service of society, driving a responsible, sustainable digital transformation with real impact.

Here we don't just design infrastructure, we design the future. We are looking for people who are curious, enthusiastic, and passionate about what they do, who are never satisfied with the status quo, and who want to build the Telefónica of tomorrow. If you are passionate about technology that transforms lives, this is your place.

The Cybersecurity Innovation area defines and builds technologies and services that improve Telefónica's competitive position in its business as an MSSP. The area is part of the global CDO (Chief Digital Office) organization, responsible for innovation in strategic areas for the Telefónica group.

We build our own product and technology, turning strategic vision into scalable cybersecurity capabilities with a clear focus on building differentiating intellectual property. Our multidisciplinary teams combine expertise in product, AI & data, software development, and cybersecurity.

We work closely with Telefónica's B2B Cybersecurity area, the leading MSSP in Spain, responsible for sales, delivery, and operations.

Additional information

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