Senior Security Posture Leader, Product Security (Remote)

Jackalope Digital LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible PTO

Employee Resource Groups

Stock purchase plan

Development fund

Parental leave

Job summary

GitLab is seeking a Senior Manager of the Security Posture Management (SPM) team within the Product Security Department. You will lead a team securing GitLab's software factory, driving governed rollouts of security capabilities across projects and building proactive software supply chain security as a first-class capability.

You’ll own direction, delivery, and growth of the team, set priorities, and create conditions for engineers to do their best work in an all-remote, async environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a security or engineering team.
• Technical fluency across security posture management, software supply chain security, and secure configuration of a large SaaS estate.
• Track record of driving broad, governed rollouts of security capability across an engineering organization you do not own, and sustaining adoption after launch.
• Experience translating security requirements into controls that engineering teams can meet without slowing down.
• Familiarity with producing control evidence for audit, certification, or maturity assessment, and partnering with Compliance or GRC counterparts.
• Ability to drive measurable impact under high ambiguity, including building the organizational buy-in to get there.
• Ability to break large problems into iterative wins that ship and compound.
• Sound judgment and strong written communication leading in an all-remote, async environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive, governed rollouts of GitLab's own security capabilities across the estate, bringing every project into alignment with our Project Security Configuration Standard and keeping it there.
• Set a security baseline that accelerates engineering rather than gating it, so teams inherit secure defaults and paved paths instead of negotiating requirements project by project.
• Serve as Customer Zero for GitLab's security features: capture where adoption at scale is hard, and feed that evidence to Product and Engineering as a leading indicator of customer sentiment and a driver of roadmap decisions.
• Establish proactive software supply chain security as a first-class capability in Product Security, including third party component governance, trusted dependency controls, and the requirements behind product-level SBOMs.
• Reduce systemic risk across our own groups and namespaces, including lateral movement and token governance.
• Own the operations of the Product Security Risk Register and the metrics and dashboards that give the department a single, data-driven view of our posture.
• Partner with Compliance to produce evidence of our security control implementation for audits, certifications, and internal security maturity assessments, so the same work that hardens the estate also satisfies the auditors.
• Represent this work externally, contributing thought leadership on how GitLab secures its own software factory that strengthens our go-to-market narrative and customer trust.
• Lead, coach, and grow the team, and shape how it operates as it forms.

Skills

Security leadership

Security posture

Software supply chain

Audit readiness

Remote leadership

Tools

GRC tools

Job description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Manager of the Security Posture Management (SPM) team within the Product Security Department. You will lead a team securing GitLab's software factory, driving governed rollouts of security capabilities across projects and building proactive software supply chain security as a first-class capability.

You’ll own direction, delivery, and growth of the team, set priorities, and create conditions for engineers to do their best work in an all-remote, async environment.