Principal Product Manager – Defensive Engineering Programs & Controls

State Street; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Health insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Performance-based awards

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Principal Product Manager for Defensive Engineering Programs & Controls within Global Cyber Security. The role blends program management with GRC strategy, embedding within a security engineering function to modernize controls and ensure measurable risk reduction.

You will translate regulatory and audit requirements into technical roadmaps, drive complex programs across teams, and report to executives with governance updates. Financial services experience is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical field and >10 years in cybersecurity, product/program management or governance.
• Experience leading regulatory, audit, controls, or security modernization initiatives.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PMP or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of security engineering controls across multiple domains.
• Define control objectives, KPIs, and metrics for effectiveness and risk reduction.
• Partner with engineering, risk, compliance, legal, and audit to drive implementation and remediation.
• Translate regulatory requirements into technical roadmaps and executable programs.
• Provide executive-level reporting and governance for cross-functional programs.

Skills

Cybersecurity programs

Governance & risk

Bridge engineering & risk

Program management

Financial services knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/InfoSec/Engineering/Business

10+ years cybersecurity/program management

Regulatory/audit/controls leadership

CISSP/CISM/CRISC/PMP

NIST/CIS/ISO27001 familiarity

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager - Defensive Engineering Programs & Controls reporting within the Defensive Engineering organization in Global Cyber Security (GCS). This role will lead the modernization of our security engineering control landscape - part program manager, part GRC strategist, embedded directly within a security engineering organization. If you can drive complex technical programs while fluently speaking the language of controls, risk, and compliance, let's talk. Financial services experience is a plus.

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of Defensive Engineering, a function that is vital to the company as it delivers and operates security capabilities that protect the firm's workforce, platforms, and data. This role serves as a bridge between security engineering, risk, compliance, and audit teams, ensuring security controls are measurable, effective, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

What You Will Be Responsible For

• Lead strategic initiatives to modernize and mature the security engineering control landscape across multiple cybersecurity domains.
• Define control objectives, success criteria, KPIs, and metrics that measure control effectiveness, coverage, and risk reduction.
• Partner with engineering, risk, compliance, legal, and audit teams to drive control implementation, remediation, and continuous improvement.
• Translate regulatory, audit, and risk requirements into technical roadmaps and executable engineering programs.
• Drive complex cross-functional programs from strategy through execution while providing executive-level reporting and governance.

What We Value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Experience leading large-scale cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or security transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of security controls, governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and risk management practices.
• Ability to bridge technical engineering teams with risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders.
• Strong program management, executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries preferred.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, product management, program management, risk management, or governance functions.
• Experience leading regulatory, audit, controls, or security modernization initiatives.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PMP, or equivalent preferred.
• Familiarity with security control frameworks such as NIST, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, or similar.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to influence and drive outcomes across engineering, risk, compliance, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience developing governance frameworks, control libraries, KPIs, KRIs, and executive reporting.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, security engineering, and enterprise security controls.

Work Requirement

• Hybrid work model in accordance with company policy.
• Ability to collaborate across global teams and time zones.
• Standard business hours with flexibility to support key regulatory, audit, and risk initiatives as needed.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $202,500 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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Job ID: R-793638