HackerOne Hires Chief Product Officer to Lead Charge into AI-Driven Security Future

In a decisive move that underscores its ambitions in the age of AI-driven security, HackerOne has tapped veteran technologist and entrepreneur Nidhi Aggarwal as its new Chief Product Officer. The appointment, announced Wednesday, signals the company’s intent to fuse human ingenuity with artificial intelligence to supercharge vulnerability discovery and remediation at scale.

Aggarwal joins the offensive security firm at a strategic inflection point. With AI shaking the foundations of traditional cybersecurity operations, HackerOne is betting on a hybrid future — one in which human hackers and machine intelligence operate in lockstep to outpace adversaries. That bet hinges on platforms like Hai, HackerOne’s AI security agent, which debuted in 2024 and has since evolved into a central pillar of the company’s roadmap.

Aggarwal will lead product vision and execution across HackerOne’s portfolio, integrating and expanding the company’s AI-native capabilities. She brings more than 15 years of experience building and scaling product organizations, including co-founding Qwiklabs — later acquired by Google — and leadership stints at Tamr, VMware, and McKinsey.

“Nidhi’s appointment will accelerate HackerOne’s leadership in the AI era,” said Kara Sprague, CEO of HackerOne. “She brings the strategic clarity and operational depth to drive execution of our AI-centric platform vision, deliver more customer value, and ensure that innovation remains at the heart of everything we do.”

That AI-centric vision is already taking shape. Over the past year, HackerOne has rolled out a suite of enhancements under the Hai brand, including Program Insights, Benchmarks, and a new Return on Mitigation (RoM) metric designed to quantify security ROI in real time. These innovations are paired with integrations into enterprise tools like ServiceNow, GitLab, and Secure Code Warrior — aiming to dissolve the friction between discovery and resolution.

Aggarwal sees the moment as ripe for transformation. “HackerOne has a unique opportunity to redefine security in the AI era,” she said. “By combining human expertise with the power of AI, we're uniquely positioned to deliver high-quality security findings with unprecedented scale and speed. Our AI-powered platform accelerates vulnerability discovery, triage, and response while equipping both security researchers and customers with intelligent tools and real-time insights.”

Her hiring reflects a growing trend across the cybersecurity industry: platform consolidation paired with AI augmentation. With a market increasingly fatigued by alert overload and siloed tooling, security leaders are looking for systems that can automate the mundane, contextualize the complex, and offer real-time decision support.

If HackerOne succeeds in building the kind of AI-augmented human-machine feedback loop it envisions, it may not just change how companies secure their code — it could reshape what “offensive security” means in an era where machines, too, are learning how to hack.