Security-First Product Enablement Lead

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Mariner is seeking an experienced Product Security & Business Enablement Lead to partner with product, data and engineering teams, embedding security early into roadmaps and designs to enable safe, rapid business outcomes.

You will assess security across SaaS, APIs, data integrations, and AI features, translate requirements into actionable designs, and build secure-by-design patterns that scale with the business.

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

• Shape secure solutions from the outset with product, engineering, architecture, and data leaders to enable timely business outcomes.
• Assess the security of Mariner’s platforms—SaaS apps, APIs, data flows, and AI features—identifying trust boundaries and risks.
• Facilitate architecture and threat reviews with delivery teams and document outcomes.
• Build reusable secure-by-design patterns for SaaS, APIs, integrations, data movement, credentials, authorization, and AI workflows.
• Translate complex security requirements into actionable designs without stalling progress.
• Advocate for security in vendor evaluation and SaaS selection alongside enterprise teams.
• Collaborate with Security Platform Engineering to deliver self-service security capabilities and automated guardrails.
• Partner with Identity & Access and Infrastructure for robust authentication, authorization, and posture management.
• Support AI-enabled products by establishing security for data boundaries, tool access, prompt risks, and audit controls.
• Provide security expertise for enterprise data strategy and technology adoption while defining practical patterns for secure data flows.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud/SaaS security

Solutions architecture

Engineering

SRE/DevOps

Partnership skills

Business enablement

Education

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

Job description

Mariner is seeking an experienced Product Security & Business Enablement Lead to partner with product, data and engineering teams, embedding security early into roadmaps and designs to enable safe, rapid business outcomes.

You will assess security across SaaS, APIs, data integrations, and AI features, translate requirements into actionable designs, and build secure-by-design patterns that scale with the business.