Director, Product Security & SecOps

Genius Sports Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Genius Sports Group is seeking a Director to lead the combined Product Security and Security Operations function, embedding security across engineering and product delivery in a regulated sports data environment.

You will transform fragmented security tasks into a mature program, define risk-based strategies, and mentor a global team across regions, time zones, and functions, ensuring proactive threat management and incident response.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity with depth in both product/application security and security operations.
• Proven leadership of security engineering or SOC teams — including distributed, multi-region teams.
• Expert-level knowledge of secure SDL frameworks (OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF), threat modelling, and security architecture.
• Deep experience with detection engineering, SIEM/XDR platforms, incident response, and MSSP management.
• Strong cloud security expertise — AWS required; container and Kubernetes security experience.
• Track record of translating technical risk into business impact for executive audiences.
• Experience building or maturing vulnerability management programs with engineering ownership models.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation. Act as the agent of change from fragmented security tasks to a mature program, reshape team structure, ways of working, and organization growth.
• Own the ProdSecOps program — vision, goals, and delivery across both product security and security operations functions.
• Define and lead the product security framework — mapping assets, ownership, and cyber risk to business value.
• Build and maintain a cyber risk management view that is aggregate, contextual, and actionable for leadership.
• Lead, develop, and grow a distributed team across multiple regions and time zones.
• Set team objectives aligned to functional and company-level OKRs. Own delivery against them.

Skills

Leadership

Product Security

SecOps

Threat Modelling

OWASP SAMM

NIST SSDF

AWS

Kubernetes

MSSP Management

SIEM/XDR

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

SIEM

XDR

CSPM

Kubernetes Security

Job description

Genius Sports Group is seeking a Director to lead the combined Product Security and Security Operations function, embedding security across engineering and product delivery in a regulated sports data environment.

You will transform fragmented security tasks into a mature program, define risk-based strategies, and mentor a global team across regions, time zones, and functions, ensuring proactive threat management and incident response.