Vice President, Product Security

Qualifications 

Leadership & Executive Management 

• 12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, application security, product security, cloud security, or security architecture, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles managing globally distributed security, engineering, and architecture teams. 

• Proven experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing Product Security organizations supporting large-scale SaaS, cloud-native, and enterprise software platforms. 

• Demonstrated success leading directors, senior managers, architects, and security engineering teams across multiple geographies and product portfolios. 

• Experience owning multi-million-dollar security budgets, strategic planning processes, headcount forecasting, vendor relationships, and security program execution. 

• Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate technical risk, business impact, and security strategy to Boards of Directors, Executive Leadership Teams, auditors, regulators, and customer executives. 

• Proven ability to influence security and product roadmaps across Engineering, Product Management, Cloud Operations, Legal, Compliance, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Corporate Security organizations. 

• Experience participating in M&A due diligence, product security assessments, and post-acquisition security integration activities is highly desirable. 

Product Security & Secure Engineering 

• Deep expertise in product security, application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, software supply chain security, and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices. 

• Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling: 

• Security-by-design principles 

• Threat modeling frameworks 

• Secure coding standards 

• Vulnerability management programs 

• Red teaming exercises 

• Bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs 

• Software supply chain security controls 

• SBOM management 

• Secure CI/CD pipelines 

• Container and Kubernetes security 

• Extensive knowledge of modern authentication and identity architectures including: 

• Zero Trust 

• OAuth2 

• OpenID Connect 

• SAML 

• PKI 

• Hardware-backed cryptography 

• Secrets management 

• PAM solutions 

• Deep understanding of modern security frameworks including: 

• NIST Cybersecurity Framework 

• NIST SP 800-53 

• NIST SP 800-171 

• NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF) 

• CIS Controls 

• OWASP Top 10 

• OWASP ASVS 

• SOC 2 

• ISO 27001 

Federal Compliance & Government Security Experience 

FedRAMP 

• 10+ years of experience supporting U.S. federal cybersecurity programs and regulatory frameworks. 

• Proven experience leading, achieving, and sustaining multiple FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High Authorizations to Operate (ATO) for cloud-native SaaS products. 

• Extensive experience working directly with: 

• Federal Agencies 

• Joint Authorization Board (JAB) stakeholders 

• Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs) 

• Authorizing Officials 

• Government security assessors 

• Deep knowledge of: 

• NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 

• FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring 

• POA&M management 

• Significant Change Requests 

• Annual Assessments 

• Vulnerability remediation requirements 

• Configuration management controls 

• Demonstrated ownership of security strategy and product architecture supporting regulated government cloud environments. 

CMMC & DoD Cloud Requirements 

• Hands-on experience implementing and managing environments aligned to: 

• CMMC Level 2 requirements 

• NIST SP 800-171 

• Experience designing and securing solutions deployed within Department of Defense environments requiring Impact Level (IL) authorization. 

• Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience supporting: 

• DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4) 

• DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) 

• DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6) 

• Experience working with government customers handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), National Security Systems (NSS), and classified or highly regulated workloads. 

• Familiarity with DISA STIGs, SRGs, DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG), and associated authorization processes. 

NIAP & Common Criteria 

• Experience leading or supporting NIAP Common Criteria certification efforts for enterprise software, networking products, endpoint security solutions, or cybersecurity technologies. 

• Strong understanding of: 

• Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) 

• Protection Profiles 

• Security Targets 

• Evaluation Assurance Levels (EAL) 

• NIAP product certification lifecycle 

• Experience working with accredited testing laboratories and certification authorities to achieve and maintain product certifications. 

Multi-Cloud Security & Hyperscaler Expertise 

• 15+ years of experience designing and securing cloud-native SaaS platforms operating at enterprise scale. 

• Demonstrated architecture and operational expertise across multiple hyperscale cloud service providers including: 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 

• Experience securing AWS environments leveraging:  

• Organizations 

• IAM 

• KMS 

• CloudTrail 

• GuardDuty 

• Security Hub 

• Control Tower 

• ECS/EKS 

• Native compliance controls 

Microsoft Azure 

• Experience securing Azure environments utilizing:  

• Entra ID 

• Azure Policy 

• Defender for Cloud 

• Key Vault 

• Azure Monitor 

• Microsoft Sentinel 

• AKS 

• Landing Zone architectures 

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) 

• Experience designing secure GCP architectures leveraging:  

• Cloud IAM 

• Security Command Center 

• Cloud KMS 

• Anthos 

• Chronicle 

• Organization Policies 

• GKE security controls 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 

• Experience securing OCI environments including: 

• OCI IAM 

• OCI Vault 

• Cloud Guard 

• Security Zones 

• OCI Logging 

• OCI Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) 

• Experience developing governance models and security architectures across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. 

• Demonstrated track record implementing consistent security controls, monitoring, identity governance, and compliance frameworks across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, SABSA, or equivalent advanced security certifications. 

• Prior experience serving as: 

• VP Product Security 

• Head of Product Security 

• Chief Product Security Officer 

• Distinguished Security Architect 

• Senior Security Executive within a cybersecurity or cloud technology company. 

• Experience working in publicly traded technology organizations and interacting with Audit Committees and Board-level Cybersecurity Committees.