Senior Manager, Product Security & Incident Leadership

LaunchDarkly Group; West (MS); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

Mental health benefits

Job summary

LaunchDarkly seeks a senior security leader to build and run the Product Security team, partnering with the Director of Security. You will drive a risk-based security operating model, empower engineering teams, and automate findings with AI on the first pass.

Your role includes incident management, vendor decisions, and quarterly posture reporting to executives. You will lead a team of security engineers, own security health across products, and advocate for measurable metrics while guiding

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving a security function from gatekeeper to team ownership, with measurable results.
• Experience as incident manager for security incidents at a SaaS company, including external communication.
• Experience guiding teams through technical tradeoffs and developing senior engineers' careers.
• The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
• Familiarity with AWS security at scale and with external audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP) as a participant or control owner.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of your team's work, appropriately managing everyone's time and assigning them to the highest priority work.
• Help your team and the engineering organization make sense of, and simplify, how security work gets done: who owns what, what is automated, and what Security stops doing.
• Guide product engineering teams in owning their own security health: findings route to them with mapped severity, Security reviews and validates rather than fixes, and each team sees its security health in its own service review.
• Own the wiring and routing of security findings and requests, driving down noise and the human‑decision rate across intake, triage, and review.
• Serve as incident manager of record for security incidents: first escalation for our service‑level commitments, delegated approver for vendor and access decisions, and cover for the Director's operational duties.
• Publish posture: monthly service‑level attainment to engineering, quarterly posture to the executive team, and a risk register that drives priorities.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident management

Security program leadership

Risk-based thinking

Communication skills

Tools

AWS security at scale

SOC 2

ISO 27001

FedRAMP

Job description

LaunchDarkly seeks a senior security leader to build and run the Product Security team, partnering with the Director of Security. You will drive a risk-based security operating model, empower engineering teams, and automate findings with AI on the first pass.

Your role includes incident management, vendor decisions, and quarterly posture reporting to executives. You will lead a team of security engineers, own security health across products, and advocate for measurable metrics while guiding