Senior Product Security Governance Leader

Fifth Third Bank; Ohio; Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Fifth Third Bank seeks a Product Security Governance Principal to lead governance for internally developed software, APIs, SDKs, and related services. You will define engagement criteria, review expectations, escalation paths, and evidence standards while aligning with enterprise security processes.

The role requires strong leadership, risk judgment, and the ability to translate security requirements for product and engineering teams across the organization.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years in Product Security, security governance, or related fields.
• Proven ability to evaluate evidence, identify concerns, and make defensible decisions.
• Experience translating security requirements for product and engineering teams.
• Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive outcomes.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead Product Security governance for internally developed software, APIs, SDKs, integrations, and related services.
• Define product scope, engagement criteria, review expectations, decision authorities, escalation paths, and evidence standards.
• Develop and maintain standards, procedures, playbooks, templates, decision records, risk records, and supporting guidance.
• Facilitate risk-based decisions on security requirements, exceptions, compensating controls, and accountability.
• Align Product Security with enterprise architecture, vulnerability management, risk, compliance, audit, and engineering processes.
• Lead a scalable customer assurance model and coordinate security summaries, whitepapers, assessment responses, and evidence.
• Support SOC 2 readiness activities, evidence coordination, and control design evaluation.
• Develop consolidated views of product security risk, control adoption, and assurance readiness.

Skills

Governance leadership

Risk judgment

Executive communication

Cross-functional influence

Security controls understanding

Decision making

Evidence-based evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, information systems, business, accounting

Job description

Fifth Third Bank seeks a Product Security Governance Principal to lead governance for internally developed software, APIs, SDKs, and related services. You will define engagement criteria, review expectations, escalation paths, and evidence standards while aligning with enterprise security processes.

The role requires strong leadership, risk judgment, and the ability to translate security requirements for product and engineering teams across the organization.