Set the direction. Lead the portfolio. Own the outcome.
I’m Kris Anderson, a cybersecurity product leader with 20 years across enterprise security and infrastructure. I lead portfolio strategy, investment priorities, and commercial execution, aligning product teams, engineering, and go-to-market around customer value and business performance. My strengths span Product-Led Growth (PLG) initiatives and traditional Sales-Led Growth (SLG).
At TrendAI, I owned global Network Security product strategy with $162M in revenue responsibility and nearly 5,000 enterprise customers. My broader leadership experience includes managing 5 managers and approximately 60 PMs in Product Operations and Product Effectiveness.
5 managersManaged in Product Operations & Product Effectiveness
~60 PMsLeadership scope across launch, field execution & customer education
Executive scope
Lead the product business, from strategy to execution.
Portfolio direction, commercial judgment, and organizational leadership, backed by deep security expertise.
01 / PORTFOLIO & INVESTMENT STRATEGY
Decide where to compete. Make the tradeoffs.
Owned global portfolio direction across network visibility and detection, threat prevention, and secure access. Balanced established enterprise businesses with platform modernization and emerging AI security opportunities.
Business ownership
$162M in revenue responsibility and nearly 5,000 enterprise customers, spanning SaaS, virtual, and purpose-built hardware offerings.
Strategic decisions
Roadmap priorities, investment decisions, product lifecycle, and the evolution of standalone products into the Vision One platform.
Portfolio breadth
Visibility & detection
Threat prevention
Secure access
Unified Vision One direction
02 / COMMERCIAL & MARKET LEADERSHIP
Lead growth through product and sales.
Owned pricing and packaging, competitive positioning, analyst strategy, and go-to-market alignment. Bring strength in Product-Led Growth (PLG) initiatives alongside traditional Sales-Led Growth (SLG), connecting customer insight, product experience, and field execution to growth strategy.
Commercial execution
Developed good/better/best packaging, usage tiers, and launch tiering; partnered across Engineering, Design, Sales, and Marketing.
External perspective
Worked with leading industry analysts at Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Omdia, and other firms. Combined analyst perspectives with customer and field insight to pressure-test priorities, sharpen positioning, and inform investment tradeoffs.
SLGSales-Led GrowthField execution & enterprise value
Customer value + commercial opportunity
03 / ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Lead managers. Strengthen the product organization.
Led Product Operations and Product Effectiveness, managing 5 managers and approximately 60 PMs across launch readiness, field execution, customer education, and product-feedback loops.
Leadership at scale
Connected product teams with customer mission and business performance through clear expectations, PM team development, and cross-functional execution.
Operating discipline
Established release-health reviews, product-bet reviews, and feedback cadences to improve roadmap clarity for executives and field teams.
Product Operations & Effectiveness
5managers
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~60product managers
Launch readinessField executionCustomer education
Selected experience
Transform the portfolio. Keep the customer mission clear.
PLATFORM TRANSFORMATION
From standalone security to a unified platform
Helped bring Vision One and early XDR capabilities to market. Later led the modernization of a network portfolio toward a unified experience connecting network telemetry with endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and exposure signals.
Customer value: Evolved endpoint workflows into EDR/XDR experiences with guided response and richer telemetry, reducing investigation friction and increasing adoption of automated actions.
AI & PRODUCT INNOVATION
Ground AI investment in defender value
Led product direction across AI for Security and Security for AI, including AI-assisted virtual patching, GenAI-powered network anomaly detection, and AI service access security.
Strategic focus: Connected emerging capabilities to exposure-to-protection workflows and unified platform management while balancing innovation with the needs of established enterprise customers.
Product leadership. Built on technical credibility.
Product and commercial leadership across cybersecurity and infrastructure, supported by an early career close to enterprise customers and their technical challenges.
TrendAI / Trend MicroPRODUCT MANAGEMENT TENURE · JAN 2018 — OCT 2026
MOST RECENT ROLE
Director of Product Management — Cybersecurity Platform
Owned global Network Security product strategy, investment priorities, pricing and packaging, product lifecycle, analyst strategy, and go-to-market alignment for a portfolio with $162M in revenue responsibility and nearly 5,000 enterprise customers. Led platform modernization across visibility and detection, threat prevention, and secure access. Broader product leadership included XDR, identity security, UI/UX, and AI-driven security workflows.
Trend MicroAPR 2015 — JAN 2018
Hybrid Cloud Support Team Lead
Led 30 Cloud Security Support Engineers. Built KPIs, Salesforce Service Cloud workflows, and internal tools that connected customer support insights to product improvements.
Limestone NetworksDEC 2007 — APR 2015
Director of Product Management, GTM & Operations
Owned strategy, pricing, and go-to-market for cloud and bare metal hosting. Led Development, Marketing, and Customer Support teams serving SMB and enterprise customers.
TripwireMAY 2006 — DEC 2007
Technical Support Engineer
Supported enterprise security across Linux and networking environments, building the technical and customer foundation for a career in product leadership.
How I lead
Create alignment. Make decisions. Develop leaders.
I translate market, customer, and technical evidence into a product thesis teams can execute. I make priorities and tradeoffs explicit, connect Engineering and GTM, and develop product leaders who understand both the customer mission and the business model.
01Set a market thesis and make explicit investment tradeoffs.
02Align Engineering, Design, Sales, and Marketing around priorities.
03Develop product managers and managers; establish clear accountability.
04Evaluate product decisions through customer value and business performance.
Let’s talk about what’s next
Let’s discuss your next product challenge.
I’m exploring remote product leadership roles and opportunities in the Portland, Oregon metro area where I can lead portfolio strategy, develop product leaders, and connect cybersecurity innovation to commercial execution.