Product Owner, AVP - Physical Security Platforms

Blackstone • New York, NY

23h • $140,000 - $200,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram. The Physical Security Team at Blackstone is responsible for protecting the firm’s people, offices, and operations across the globe. This includes providing security for in-house events, external events, executive protection, and day-to-day operations to ensure a safe and secure environment. We are seeking a full-time employee to join the team in our New York office to support these critical functions. Position Overview: The Physical Security Platforms Product Owner is an experienced professional with extensive expertise in enterprise security technologies who thrives in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. This individual will be responsible for managing and developing a comprehensive global strategic plan and program for the firm’s portfolio of physical security platforms. The role focuses on delivering integrated, reliable, and actionable capabilities that mitigate operational, reputational, and compliance risks while enabling security leaders to make informed decisions through unified data and workflows. This individual will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for physical security platforms, collaborating with stakeholders across Technology, Physical Security, Cyber Security, Risk, and Compliance. They will prioritize features, manage the development backlog, and ensure the delivery of scalable solutions, including a single-pane-of-glass view that integrates data and workflows. Experience with platforms such as CCure, Everbridge, and SwiftConnect is highly preferred. They will establish clear objectives, performance metrics, and a forward-looking vision to drive innovation and operational excellence in physical security technology.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner/Manager delivering enterprise platforms
• 3+ years of experience working specifically with physical security technologies (e.g., access control, visitor management, mass notification, incident management, VMS).
• Demonstrated success managing backlogs, writing user stories, and shipping features with Agile/Scrum teams.
• Proven experience leading systems integrations to deliver unified dashboards or “single pane of glass” experiences.
• Strong technical knowledge of APIs, event-driven integrations, authentication/authorization (e.g., SSO/SAML/OIDC), and data governance considerations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including for executive-level briefings.
• Product ownership skills for backlog curation, prioritization, and outcome-based road mapping.
• Technical experience with API-first integration, data modeling, eventing, RBAC/ABAC, and SSO/IAM fundamentals.
• Security domain knowledge relating to access control, visitor management, mass notification, incident management, and video & analytics.
• Delivery skills: Agile/Scrum, metrics-driven decision-making, UAT & release readiness.
• Communication skills: prepare concise executive updates, negotiate with vendors, maintain clear records of decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with one or more preferred: CCure, Everbridge, Swiftconnect, LenelS2, Genetec, Avigilon, OnGuard, Brivo, or visitor management systems (Envoy, Traction Guest).
• Familiarity with identity platforms (e.g., Azure AD/Entra, Okta) and badge provisioning/physical-digital identity workflows preferred.
• Exposure to data visualization/BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and log/event pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Splunk) preferred.
• CSPO/PSPO, PMP, SAFe POPM, or security certifications relevant to physical security/operations.
• Experience in highly regulated or multi-site enterprise environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Own and evolve the product vision for physical security platforms, aligning it with business outcomes, risk reduction, and user experience, while building and maintaining a 12–18 month roadmap with measurable milestones and success metrics such as availability, incident response time, compliance, and ROI.
• Backlog Management & Delivery: Translate stakeholder needs into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria using data-driven frameworks; lead Agile ceremonies such as refinement, sprint planning, and reviews to ensure timely delivery of high-quality increments, while defining and validating acceptance criteria, owning UAT plans, and ensuring production readiness.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the primary liaison between Physical Security leadership, site operations, IT/Network, Compliance, and vendor partners, facilitating decision-making, managing expectations, and communicating status, risks, and trade-offs with clarity and regular cadence.
• Technical Integrations: Guide integration efforts to consolidate data and workflows across access control, visitor management, mass notification, incident management, video platforms, and identity/IAM by partnering with engineers to integrate platforms via APIs, webhooks, event streams, and data pipelines, while ensuring data quality, normalization, and taxonomy alignment to enable unified dashboards, analytics, alerting, and operational reporting for security leadership.
• Risk, Reliability, & Compliance: Collaborate on high-availability design, disaster recovery planning, and continuity runbooks while aligning with relevant standards and policies (e.g., SOC, SOX, GDPR/CCPA implications for identity and visitor data) and owning vendor and platform lifecycle management, including roadmaps, renewals, and end-of-life planning.
• Insight & Communications: Deliver executive-ready communications, including quarterly roadmap updates, KPI scorecards, investment recommendations, and post-incident reviews, while championing user feedback loops and driving continuous improvement.

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits
• paid time off
• life insurance
• 401(k) plan
• discretionary bonuses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed