Karen Cohen
@karencohen
I lead complex technical security and infrastructure products, turning listening into measurable renewals and expansions.
ZimbabweWhat I'm looking for
I build products at the intersection of people, technology, and business. At Apiiro, I was the company’s first product leader and was ultimately promoted to VP Product, where I owned detection engines and the broader solutions strategy.
I’m the product leader account teams bring in when an enterprise relationship is at risk. I re-signed an actively churning account at original terms six weeks after stepping in, and champion feedback sessions with me grew into a $3M+ multi-year expansion.
I also took ownership of years-long blockers—especially integrations. I led SHINE, our public integrations program (25+ integrations in its first year), and I product-led the Akamai partnership by co-creating the executive story, running customer sessions, and shipping an upsellable SKU.
Before Apiiro, I spent seven years at Wix (PM → Product Director), leading GDPR compliance company-wide and building privacy products that lifted conversion across five tier-1 markets. I came up through Unit 8200 and engineering management—I read code, debug with queries, design integration architectures, and uplift teams with hands-on technical leadership, including AI-driven release-tracking and docs workflows for the PM org.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Apiiro's first product leader, promoted to VP to own our first- and third-party solutions strategy: the proprietary detection engines (SCA, secrets, API security, IaC, containers), the technology partnership portfolio,
a team of product managers, and the documentation function.
• I'm the product leader account teams bring in when an enterprise relationship is at risk — and customers keep asking f
Joined as Apiiro's first product leader (RSA Innovation Sandbox winner;
Gartner Cool Vendor in DevSecOps) and grew with the company to VP.
• Became the product voice customers ask for by name — ran the sessions
that rebuilt shaky accounts' confidence, and started the champion-level
feedback cadence at a tier-1 financial institution that grew into a $3M+
multi-year expansion.
• Gave GTM the tools
• Head of privacy product line - Tools for Wix's B2C / DIY users to make their website compliant with data privacy regulations such as GDPR. This increased conversion, retention and sales in 5 tier-1 countries, contributing to Wix’s partnership with VodaFone UK.
• Leading the company and board through GDPR compliance for all Wix products. Reaching our goal a month ahead of schedule, resulting in i
• Managed an R&D team of 8 developers, previously considered the company’s biggest blocker for product innovation.
• Headed the Wix App Platform, used to build web applications (first and third party) on top of Wix websites. Increased platform adoption and shortened feedback loop by leading, promoting and speaking at Developer conferences, hackathons and events. Managed the product on a shoestri
Managed an R&D team of 8 developers and led Wix's App Platform, increasing adoption and shortening feedback loops through developer-facing outreach. Influenced public API design, led UX and product work for an internal experimentation framework to improve developer velocity, and ran the Kickstart junior developer onboarding program.
Software Engineer
NewBrand
Aug 2011 - Jul 2013 (1 year 11 months)
Developed a configuration-based web scraping infrastructure to replace a hard-coded approach, reducing time-to-production/time-to-model (TTM). Designed and implemented a self-healing web scraper.
Developed a sturdy, configuration based, web scraping infrastructure, to replace a hard-coded based one, significantly reducing TTM. Designed and implemented an innovative, self-healing web scraper.
Team Leader and software developer
Mar 2005 - Feb 2011 (5 years 11 months)
• Led complex projects across multiple military units, reduced time to information discovery and processing leading to lives saved.
• Led two award-winning teams of developers (Life Source Award).
Team Leader & Software Dev
Israeli Military Intelligence - Unit 8200
Mar 2005 - Feb 2011 (5 years 11 months)
Led complex projects across multiple military units, reducing time to information discovery and processing and contributing to life-saving outcomes. Led two award-winning developer teams.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Reichman University
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science and Business
2009 - 2012
MAHAT - Trained engineers
Trained Engineer, Computer Science
2005 - 2010
MAHAT
Trained Engineer, Computer Science
2005 - 2010
Trained as an engineer in computer science through MAHAT from 2005 to 2010.
Air Force Officer Academy
2007 - 2007
Availability
Location
ZimbabweAuthorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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