Senior Product Security Leader - AI-Driven Risk & Incidents

Cervin; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 205,000 - 331,000; Full time

Job summary

LaunchDarkly is seeking a senior security leader to run our Product Security team and partner with the Director of Security. You will shape a risk-driven security program where engineering teams own their security health and automation acts as first responder.

You'll manage a security engineers team, serve as incident manager of record, and drive the quarterly security posture and risk register for executives. Collaboration with all engineering teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving security 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.
• Ability to track and drive metrics and understand their limitations.
• Familiarity with AWS security at scale and with external audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP).
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Thoughtful, empathetic 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

People management

Incident management

AWS security

Security metrics

Effective communication

Risk-based security

Job description

LaunchDarkly is seeking a senior security leader to run our Product Security team and partner with the Director of Security. You will shape a risk-driven security program where engineering teams own their security health and automation acts as first responder.

You'll manage a security engineers team, serve as incident manager of record, and drive the quarterly security posture and risk register for executives. Collaboration with all engineering teams is essential.