Security & Enablement Lead for AI-Driven Products

Mariner Wealth Advisors; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mariner Wealth Advisors seeks a seasoned Product Security & Business Enablement Lead to embed security into product roadmaps, designs, and platform integration. You’ll partner with product, data, and engineering teams to reduce risk while enabling timely business outcomes across SaaS, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows.

Lead security reviews, build reusable patterns, and advocate for secure vendor selections. This senior IC role offers broad technical influence and potential mentorship opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience across security architecture, cloud/SaaS security, solutions architecture, engineering, or SRE/DevOps, with at least 4 years in a dedicated security role.
• Deep experience designing or securing distributed systems comprised of SaaS, APIs, custom applications, data integrations, and third-party services.
• Proven ability to analyze unfamiliar architectures quickly, identify security gaps, and guide practical solutions.
• Strong partnership skills—able to work directly with business, engineering, data, and architecture leaders.
• Evidence of adapting security requirements in light of business needs, with clear articulation of tradeoffs made.

Responsibilities

• Work side-by-side with product, engineering, architecture, and data leaders to shape secure solutions from the outset, reducing friction and enabling timely business outcomes.
• Assess the security of Mariner’s composite business platforms—including SaaS applications, custom-built tools, API integrations, data flows, and AI features—by identifying trust boundaries, sensitive data, and key risks.
• Facilitate architecture and threat reviews with delivery teams; help them make informed security decisions and document outcomes.
• Build and maintain a library of practical, reusable secure-by-design patterns for SaaS, APIs, integrations, data movement, credentials, authorization, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Translate complex security requirements into clear, actionable designs that don’t stall progress or rely on late-stage review.
• Advocate for security in vendor evaluation and SaaS selection, assessing posture, identity, integrations, and data residency alongside our enterprise and procurement teams.
• Collaborate with Security Platform Engineering to deliver self-service security capabilities, automated guardrails, and workflows that support the business at scale.
• Partner with Identity & Access and Infrastructure to ensure robust authentication, authorization, and posture management across all user and agent touchpoints.
• Support AI-enabled products and workflows, establishing security for data boundaries, tool access, prompt risks, and audit controls in line with enterprise AI governance.
• Provide security expertise for enterprise data strategy, product onboarding, M&A activity, and technology adoption by defining practical patterns for secure data flows and integrations.
• Be a visible, trusted advisor through regular office hours and embedded team engagement, mentoring teams so they can make sound, informed decisions without waiting on approvals.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud/SaaS security

Solutions architecture

Engineering

SRE/DevOps

Distributed systems security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security

Job description

Mariner Wealth Advisors seeks a seasoned Product Security & Business Enablement Lead to embed security into product roadmaps, designs, and platform integration. You’ll partner with product, data, and engineering teams to reduce risk while enabling timely business outcomes across SaaS, APIs, and AI-enabled workflows.

Lead security reviews, build reusable patterns, and advocate for secure vendor selections. This senior IC role offers broad technical influence and potential mentorship opportunities