Senior Manager, Product Security Office

Aptiv; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Wind River Systems seeks an experienced Secure Software Engineering Professional to lead and manage the Product Security Office, scaling trust in product security to meet growing business needs. You will guide a mature product security team, drive trust initiatives, oversee incident response (PSIRT) and vulnerability management, and collaborate with customers and engineering across functions.

The role requires broad security standards knowledge, cross-functional leadership, and strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or information security.
• 10+ years in software engineering, program management, governance, compliance, or related leadership roles.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading technical, compliance, or program teams.
• Direct experience mobilizing security standards/certifications/frameworks like FIRST.org, OWASP SAMM, IEC 62443, ISO 21434, NIST 800-218, FIPS 140-3, DISA STIG, Common Criteria, CMMC, Fed Ramp, or similar.
• Broad practical experience with the NIST 800 series security standards, including 800-53, 800-171, and others.
• Threat modeling frameworks such as TARA, STRIDE, PASTA, ATT&CK, or similar.
• Secure software testing techniques/tools: SAST, DAST, Fuzz, Security Feature, Penetration Testing.
• Vulnerability/incidence management coordination: CVSS, CNA, VINCE, NVD, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the Product Security Office and team.
• Architect the product security trust roadmap and scale the compliance framework.
• Empower product security compliance across engineering and across CTO/Office, PM, IT, Legal, InfoSec, SecOps.
• Empower product security champions across product software engineering.
• Architect and lead execution of organization-wide product security assurance platforms.
• Lead the PSIRT operations team.
• Manage customer product security trust and compliance.
• Provide training and mentoring to development teams on secure development practices.

Skills

Product security leadership

Threat modeling

Security testing

Vulnerability management

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Customer communications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/Info Security

Tools

SAST

DAST

Fuzzing

Penetration testing

Job description

Senior Manager, Product Security Office

Hybrid On-Site: Walnut Creek, CA; Austin, TX; Troy, MI; Boston, MA; Kanata, Ontario, Canada

Citizenship: USA National or Canada Citizen, without citizenship of another country

ABOUT WIND RIVER

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability.

Wind River helps customers across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications industries solve complex technology challenges on their journey toward the new intelligent machine economy. The company's software powers generation after generation of the safest, most secure systems in the world. Examples include playing a key role in NASA space missions such as Artemis I, the James Webb Space Telescope, and multiple Mars rovers. We've achieved recent 5G milestones including the world's first successful 5G data session with Verizon and building one of the largest Open RAN networks in the world with Vodafone.

The company has received industry recognition for its technology innovation and leadership, and for its workplace culture, including global Great Place to Work certification and being named a "Top Workplace" for ten consecutive years. If you want to be part of a unique culture where the lived experience is based on our cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer-focus, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging, come join us and help advance the future software defined world.

Role Summary

Wind River Systems is seeking an experiencedSecure Software Engineering Professional to lead and manage the Product Security Office to scale trust in our product security to meet increasing business and security technology needs. This position will lead and grow a mature product security team while architecting and mobilizing product security trust initiatives, manage customer product security trust, and lead the product security incident response (PSIRT) and vulnerability management team.

The successful candidate will have experience in software security techniques, broad-based security standards and regulatory experience, and have mature cross-functional leadership, teamwork, and communications capabilities.

Interface & Collaboration

The successful candidate will work and collaborate with customer, product, engineering, and operations teams to ensure high levels ofproduct security trust with a scalable, compliance-driven mindset, across all products.

Your Role

• Manage, Lead, and Grow the Product Security Office and Team
• Architect the product security trust roadmap and scale the compliance framework to meet emerging and future business priorities.
• Empower product security compliance across engineering and aligned to the CTO Office, Product Management, IT, Legal, InfoSec, and SecOps.
• Empower product security champions throughout product software engineering.
• Architect, and lead execution of organization-wide product security assurance software platforms.
• Lead the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) operations team.
• Manage customer product security trust and compliance.
• Training, mentoring, and supporting development teams to follow secure developmentvalues, principles, and practices.

Your Background

Core Competencies & Demonstrated Success

• Experience Leading Software Product Security Team(s).
• Direct experience with product security assurance techniques including Threat Modeling, Security Testing, Vulnerability Management, Software Composition, etc.
• Experience in software engineering models and techniques.
• Experience empowering product security compliance broadly across an organization.
• Broad-based experience with global security regulations, frameworks, and standards.
• Exposure to customer compliance and remediations (Questionnaire's, Audits, Contracts, etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written, management level and customer communicationskills.
• Ability to analyze and think quickly and to resolveconflict.
• Strong communication, interpersonal,and mentoring skills.
• Ability to work effectively across the organization.
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, program management, governance, compliance, or related leadership roles.
• 5+ years of people management experience leading technical, compliance, or program teams.
• Direct experience mobilizing one or more security standards/certifications/frameworks like FIRST.org, OWASP SAMM, IEC 62443, ISO 21434, NIST 800-218, FIPS 140-3, DISA STIG, Common Criteria, CMMC, Fed Ramp, or similar.
• Broad practical experience with the NIST 800 series of security standards, including 800-53, 800-171, and others.
• Practical experience with one or more threat modeling frameworks such as: TARA, STRIDE, PASTA, ATT&CK, or similar.
• Broad practical experience with secure software testing techniques and tools including: SAST, DAST, Fuzz, Security Feature, and Penetration Testing.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability and incident management coordination: Global Vulnerability Registers, CVSS Scoring, CNA, VINCE, NVD, and similar.
• Experience mobilizing secure software development techniques across an organization.
• Experience using agile techniques and frameworks to deliver secure software.
• Experience leading full-stack software solutions, preferably for product security.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified security professional (CSSLP, CISM, CISSP, CEH, or similar).
• Experience with the European Union (EU) security regulatory environment including the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
• Experience with national security systems and standards (CNSS, etc.).
• Working knowledge of risk management frameworks and risk-based secure software development.
• Experience with AI and Machine learning and their governance and provenance in a secure software development environment.
• Working knowledge of related quality and safety assurance standards such as ASPICE, ISO 26262, DO-178C, or similar.

Additionally, will consider San Diego, Walnut Creek, Boston, MA, Troy, MI or Austin, TX area (brick and mortar location will be leased soon)

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS

USA National or Canada Citizen without citizenship of another country; Successful candidates must engage in a security clearance process in regard to their citizenship in order to perform fundamental job duties, as per applicable law. In particular, candidates with certain citizenship may not be able to perform such fundamental job duties. Currently, this includes citizens of the following countries: Belarus; Burma; China; Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Syria; Venezuela; Afghanistan; Cambodia; Central African Republic; Cyprus; Democratic Republic of Congo; Ethiopia; Eritrea; Haiti; Iraq; Lebanon; Libya; Russia; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Zimbabwe. The security clearance process may take a significant amount of time to complete, and any offer of employment will be contingent on the candidate's legal ability to perform the fundamental job duties. Wind River is committed to meeting its obligations to candidates under applicable human rights law and privacy law in this regard.

COMPENSATION

The annual base salary range for this role's listed grade level is currently $200,000 to $240,000 plus bonus for residents in the states of Colorado,New Yorkand New Jersey; and $210,000 to $250,000 plus bonus for residents in the states of California and Washington, and the NYC area. Salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, location and abilities of the applicant, and equity with other team members. Employees in this role are also eligible for the following benefits in accordance with the terms of the Company's plans: health, dental, vision insurance, life insurance, flex time off, eligibility to enroll in 401k, 12 paid holidays.

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