Product Security Lab Lead

Festo India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Festo India is seeking a senior leader for the Product Security Lab in Bengaluru. You will lead a high-performing team, drive delivery of security testing commitments, and align with global security priorities.

The role emphasizes coaching, hiring, performance reviews, and succession planning within a matrix organization. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in product security, delivery management, and team development, with hands-on pentesting being a plus.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates experience in leading security, testing, or engineering teams.
• Proven ability to manage capacity, delivery risks, and escalations.
• Strong understanding of product security principles and practices.
• Experience working in matrix organizations with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provides disciplinary leadership to the Product Security Lab team and builds a stable, motivated, high-performing team through coaching, feedback, and structured development.
• Engage with the team, understand their challenges, and support operational decision-making.
• Owns hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, goal setting, and succession planning in alignment with the matrix manager.
• Ensures timely, high-quality delivery of product security testing commitments by monitoring capacity, workload, and delivery risks, and escalating bottlenecks proactively.
• Maintains structured planning, backlog readiness, and transparent tracking of execution while collaborating closely with the global Head of Product Security to align on priorities, goals, and expectations.
• Supports audits, assessments, and compliance activities relevant to the Product Security Lab while developing the team in line with global demand and roadmap priorities.
• Drives the maturity of the lab from a startup setup to a resilient, autonomous operating model, ensuring knowledge retention, effective documentation, and sustainable ways of working.
• Demonstrates experience in line or team management within engineering, testing, or security environments, with proven ability to lead experienced specialists and expert teams.
• Strong track record in delivery management, people leadership, and scaling teams, with solid understanding of Product Security principles and practices to effectively lead and support a team of security specialists.
• Hands-on pentesting expertise is a plus.
• Effectively operates within matrix organizations with shared accountability, working in a structured, reliable, and execution focused manner.
• Balances people needs, delivery expectations, and organizational constraints while communicating effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones.
• Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an added advantage.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Hiring and onboarding

Delivery management

SAFe knowledge

Security principles

Pentesting

Cross-cultural communication

Job description

• Provides disciplinary leadership to the Product Security Lab team and builds a stable, motivated, high-performing team through coaching, feedback, and structured development
• Effectively engagewith the team, understand their challenges, and support operational decision-making
• Owns hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, goal setting, and succession planning in alignment with the matrix manager
• Ensures timely, high-quality delivery of product security testing commitments agreed during PI planning by monitoring capacity, workload, and delivery risks, and escalating bottlenecks proactively
• Maintains structured planning, backlog readiness, and transparent tracking of execution while collaborating closely with the global Head of Product Security to align on priorities, goals, and expectations
• Supports audits, assessments, and compliance activities relevant to the Product Security Lab while developing the team in line with global demand and roadmap priorities
• Drives the maturity of the lab from a startup setup to a resilient, autonomous operating model, ensuring knowledge retention, effective documentation, and sustainable ways of working
• Demonstrates experience in line or team management within engineering, testing, or security environments, with proven ability to lead experienced specialists and expert teams
• Strong track record in delivery management, people leadership, and scaling teams, with solid understanding of Product Security principles and practices to effectively lead and support a team of security specialists
• Hands-on pentesting expertise is a plus
• Effectively operates within matrix organizations with shared accountability, working in a structured, reliable, and execution focused manner
• Balances people needs, delivery expectations, and organizational constraints while communicating effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones
• Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an added advantage