Senior Manager, Security

LaunchDarkly Group; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly Group is seeking a senior security leader to run Product Security, partnering with the Director of Security. You will shape a risk-led program, empower engineering teams to own security health, and drive automation and AI-driven triage.

You’ll serve as incident manager of record and guide the division when the Director is in an audit or board cycle, working with every engineering team to make secure the path of least resistance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of your team's work and allocate to high-priority tasks.
• Help engineering and security teams simplify how security work gets done and who owns what.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Security engineering

Incident response

Risk management

Program management

Cloud security

Executive collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Security

Job description

About the Job:

We're looking for a senior security leader to run our Product Security team and partner to the Director of Security. In this role, you'll own how Security operates: a program led by risk rather than audit calendars, where engineering teams own their security health and Security informs, guides, and validates, where automation and AI take the first pass on every finding, and where posture is measured and published to executives every quarter. You'll build that model, starting with Product Security and extending across the division. You'll bring a balance of people management, security judgment, and program leadership as you manage a team of security engineers, act as incident manager of record, hold delegated approval for vendor and access decisions, and run the division when the Director is in an audit, a board cycle, or on vacation. You'll work closely with every engineering team to make the secure path the easy one.

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.

About You:

• You have led a security team out of the gatekeeper model once already, and you can say what teams owned afterward, what Security stopped doing, and what the numbers did.
• You think in risk, not control lists, and you would rather defend a priority call than a checklist.
• You treat automation and AI as the first responder and yourself as the escalation path.
• You have been the second leader to a director or CISO and know which decisions to make in their name.
• You have run security incidents end to end, including the comms and the review afterward.
• You were a strong Senior or Staff security engineer before you managed, and you can still read a PR, a threat model, or a cloud finding and make a call.
• You track and drive metrics, and you understand what they can and can't tell you.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving a secur