Product Security Senior Manager

Booz Allen Hamilton•Washington, DC

1d•$142,900 - $266,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Grow and develop Booz Allen’s Product Security practice, part of the Commercial Team. Help define the Product Security team’s direction, standards, and requirements for services and solutions sold to Booz Allen Commercial customers. As part of this role, you will collaborate with key stakeholders from the market and sales teams to help drive the sales process. In addition to helping to enable business development, you will also be helping to deliver across client projects where you will lead the implementation, testing, hardening, and maturing of product security programs. You will be responsible for conducting interviews with business and technology leaders, developing strategies, conducting testing, performing and advising on hardening tasks, and presenting findings. You will educate and influence client software and product engineering teams on cybersecurity best practices. Assist clients in establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) relevant to their product and market goals around cybersecurity assurance. Work proactively with leaders across all levels to design, implement, and support solutions that ensure clients have a secure-by-design and best practice approach across the full product development life cycle. You will also lead, hire, and inspire teams of Product Security Engineers and Architects to perform security posture assessments of development and operational systems, provide recommendations and remediation plans, and implement tools, technologies, and processes that enhance the security of applications and products.

Requirements

10+ years of experience leading teams in Product Security
5+ years of experience with application or product development and developing, architecting, and implementing software security solutions
3+ years of experience working on securing embedded systems, physical products, or hardware environments
1+ years of experience with reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra or IDA Pro
Experience with managing across SDLC, including vulnerability management considerations and modern development tools and frameworks
Experience developing and securing software with code scanning tools and CI/CD pipelines and the integration of common products and solutions into production environments
Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and prevention techniques and technology, security, risk, and compliance best practices
Ability to travel up to 30% of the time
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience designing and implementing anti-tampering protections for products
Experience with fuzzing, product or firmware penetration testing, and hardening
Experience with Frontier AI models, agentic development, and utilizing AI in a product or application
Knowledge of reverse engineering and penetration testing techniques
Knowledge of common security frameworks, including OWASP and NIST
Ability to create collaborative relationships with colleagues and influence without authority

Responsibilities

Lead the implementation, testing, hardening, and maturing of product security programs.
Conduct interviews with business and technology leaders.
Develop strategies for product security.
Conduct testing related to product security.
Perform and advise on hardening tasks.
Present findings related to product security.
Educate and influence client software and product engineering teams on cybersecurity best practices.
Assist clients in establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) relevant to their product and market goals around cybersecurity assurance.
Design, implement, and support solutions that ensure clients have a secure-by-design and best practice approach across the full product development life cycle.
Lead, hire, and inspire teams of Product Security Engineers and Architects.
Perform security posture assessments of development and operational systems.
Provide recommendations and remediation plans for security posture.
Implement tools, technologies, and processes that enhance the security of applications and products.