Product Manager - Secure-by-Design Governance

Ribbon Communications; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ribbon Communications seeks a strategic Product Management leader to own security across the Cloud & Edge portfolio, driving a secure-by-design approach and unified security requirements. You will manage risk, investments, and executive reporting while partnering with Legal, Security, Engineering, and Sales to meet evolving customer and regulatory requirements.

The role focuses on governance, compliance readiness, and AI security considerations, with visibility to senior leadership through KPIs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience in enterprise software, telecommunications, networking, cloud, or cybersecurity.
• Expertise in secure software development, cloud-native platforms, vulnerability management, and software supply chain security.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across multiple product portfolios.
• Strong customer-facing, executive communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or SABSA.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Cloud & Edge Secure-by-Design strategy and multi-year security roadmap.
• Establish and maintain a unified portfolio-wide security requirements framework.
• Own security prioritization, investment planning, and the consolidated security backlog.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing security product management leader for audits, reviews, questionnaires, and strategic customer engagements.
• Develop security KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting.
• Lead portfolio risk management, vulnerability oversight, and remediation governance.
• Drive compliance readiness for key industry and regulatory frameworks, including CRA, NIS2, DORA, FedRAMP, IEC 62443, NIST, FIPS, and telecom-specific requirements.
• Monitor emerging threats, industry trends, and competitive security positioning to proactively shape product strategy.
• Establish governance processes, review boards, security communications, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Define security and governance requirements for AI-enabled products and emerging technologies.
• Success measures: Secure-by-Design roadmap; Security requirements catalog; Portfolio security dashboard and executive scorecards; Centralized security backlog; Security governance board; Regulatory compliance framework; AI security governance framework.

Skills

Security strategy

Product management leadership

Regulatory compliance

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Ribbon Communications seeks a strategic Product Management leader to own security across the Cloud & Edge portfolio, driving a secure-by-design approach and unified security requirements. You will manage risk, investments, and executive reporting while partnering with Legal, Security, Engineering, and Sales to meet evolving customer and regulatory requirements.

The role focuses on governance, compliance readiness, and AI security considerations, with visibility to senior leadership through KPIs