Vice President, Product & AI Strategy

About the Role 

We are hiring a Vice President of Product & AI Strategy to partner directly with the CEO and CTO to define and execute Styx Intelligence’s product vision and AI-first strategy. 

This leader will own the evolution of our Digital Risk Protection platform and help transform Styx into an AI-native threat intelligence company. 

You will operate at the intersection of product, AI, threat intelligence, and customer value—shaping roadmap, driving execution, and ensuring we build category-defining capabilities. 

This role is both strategic and hands-on, ideal for a builder who thrives in early-stage environments. 

Core Responsibilities 

Product Leadership 

• Own and drive the overall product vision, strategy, and roadmap 
• Partner with CEO and CTO to align product direction with company goals and market opportunities 
• Translate customer needs, threat landscape trends, and competitive insights into product innovation 
• Lead product planning, prioritization, and execution processes 
• Define and track product KPIs including adoption, retention, and customer value 

AI Strategy & Execution 

• Define and execute Styx’s AI-first platform strategy 
• Identify and implement AI/LLM opportunities across: 
• Threat detection and classification 
• Signal enrichment and correlation 
• Automated intelligence analysis 
• Alert prioritization and triage 
• Copilots and analyst augmentation 
• Partner closely with engineering to operationalize AI capabilities into production 
• Evaluate and integrate external AI models, tools, and infrastructure where appropriate 
• Ensure responsible, secure, and scalable use of AI 

  Platform & Innovation 

• Evolve Styx’s Digital Risk Protection platform into a differentiated, category-leading solution 
• Drive expansion into adjacent threat intelligence and cyber intelligence use cases 
• Identify opportunities for automation and scale 
• Define platform architecture direction in collaboration with CTO 

  Customer & Market Engagement 

• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, pain points, and priorities 
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success on product positioning and key deals 
• Support enterprise sales cycles where product leadership presence is critical 
• Represent Styx in customer, partner, and industry conversations 

  Cross-Functional Leadership 

• Serve as a core member of the leadership team 
• Build and scale the product function over time 
• Establish best-in-class product management practices 
• Align engineering, intelligence, and GTM teams around product priorities 

What We’re Looking For 

Required Experience 

• 8+ years in product management, including leadership roles 
• Experience building and scaling SaaS platforms 
• Experience with AI/ML-driven products, ideally including LLM-based systems 
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work closely with engineers 
• Experience at a startup or early-stage company (Seed–Series B preferred) 
• Proven ability to define and execute product strategy 

  Strongly Preferred 

• Experience in one or more of: 
• Cybersecurity 
• Threat intelligence 
• Digital risk protection 
• Fraud intelligence 
• Trust & Safety 
• Experience building AI-native or AI-first platforms 
• Experience working with security teams or intelligence workflows 
• Experience taking products from early traction to scale 

Leadership Traits 

• Builder mindset — thrives in ambiguity and early-stage environments 
• Strategic thinker with strong execution ability 
• Customer-obsessed 
• Highly collaborative 
• Comfortable operating both strategically and tactically 
• Strong communication and leadership presence 

 Why This Role Matters 

This role will directly shape the future of Styx Intelligence. You will help define: 

• Our product direction 
• Our AI strategy 
• Our platform differentiation 
• Our ability to scale into a category leader 

This is a rare opportunity to join early and have outsized impact. 

  What We Offer 

• Competitive salary 
• Meaningful equity 
• Leadership role with direct impact 
• Opportunity to shape an emerging leader in AI-driven threat intelligence 
• Flexible work environment 

About the Market Opportunity 

The digital risk protection and threat intelligence market is undergoing massive transformation driven by: 

• Explosion of external threat surface 
• Rise of AI-enabled adversaries 
• Increasing enterprise demand for proactive intelligence 
• Shift toward AI-augmented security operations 

Styx Intelligence is positioned to be at the forefront of this shift. 

Compensation Information: Total Compensation up to $200K CAD.