Director, Product Security & Secure DevOps

Green Dot Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Green Dot Corporation seeks a seasoned Director, Product Security Engineer to own and guide the company’s product security program. You will ensure security across systems and manage a team focused on secure product development and remediation.

You will oversee security strategy, collaborate with DevOps, Engineering and Product, and shape roadmaps to advance automated security practices in a structured hybrid environment with office presence in key locations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years within Information Security and 2+ years within a Product or Application Security role
• 3+ years within a leadership role preferred
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams
• Deep understanding and proven track record of leading a team to transform the efforts of an engineering organization to industry best practices
• Proven ability to partner and influence internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to develop and drive policies, practices, and procedures
• Familiarity with SAST and DAST tools and processes
• Deep experience of web application and mobile security defects and how to prioritize appropriately
• Knowledge of CI/CD best practices
• Excellent communication skills in verbal, written, and presentation settings with a range of audiences both business and technical, individual contributor and leadership

Responsibilities

• Oversee the organization's application security strategy and develop realistic roadmaps and priorities.
• Partner with DevOps, Engineering and Product to design and build scalable and automated processes as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
• Evaluate and select new technologies, tools, and vendors to help manage the continual improvement of application security practices and platforms.
• Execute your vision and help decide what security issues the organization should prioritize.
• Be hands-on and able to deep-dive technical security findings while you mature the program to track from identification and help the engineers get to remediation.
• Manage the product security team responsible for the development and implementation of security specifications for new products and enhancements to existing products.
• Determines the technical guidelines and features of the security architecture framework in product development.
• Identifies areas of security risk and makes recommendations to reduce those risks.
• Directs the activities of the cybersecurity function across product engineering groups.
• Oversees the analysis of product security engineering tasks and prepares security specifications and recommendations.
• Performs other duties as needed.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional influence

Product security

CI/CD

SAST/DAST

Security architecture

Verbal and written communication

Security program management

Tools

SAST tools

DAST tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Green Dot Corporation seeks a seasoned Director, Product Security Engineer to own and guide the company’s product security program. You will ensure security across systems and manage a team focused on secure product development and remediation.

You will oversee security strategy, collaborate with DevOps, Engineering and Product, and shape roadmaps to advance automated security practices in a structured hybrid environment with office presence in key locations.