Director, Product & AI Strategy

We are hiring a Director, 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 Package up to $250K CAD.