Sr. Security Program Manager
About The Position
Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running. Location: 4 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters. Our Team's Vision: Security at Illumio is not a control function. It’s part of how the business operates and grows. We protect the company, enable the business, support product velocity, and help earn customer trust - working across engineering, product, and go-to-market teams to turn risk into clear. actionable decisions. Our goal isn’t to slow things down. It’s to build a security function that scales with the business and actually works in the real world. The Security Program Manager drives execution of key security initiatives across the organization and ensures strategic security priorities translate into measurable outcomes. This role operates as the operational backbone of the Security organization—coordinating programs, defining metrics, tracking progress, and ensuring accountability across multiple teams including Security Engineering and Operations, Product Security, GRC, Engineering, Product, IT and OPs. The position helps security leadership turn strategy into structured, deliverable programs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of program or project management experience within a Security function
- Experience managing technical programs involving security and technical teams
- Strong organizational and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to translate complex technical initiatives into structured programs
Nice To Haves
- Experience working within a cybersecurity or security organization
- Familiarity with security domains such as SOC operations, product security, or compliance
- Experience developing metrics and executive reporting
- Experience coordinating complex cross-functional initiatives in SaaS or cloud environments
Responsibilities
- Drive planning and execution of cross-functional security initiatives
- Coordinate work across Security, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams
- Track program milestones, risks, and dependencies
- Ensure initiatives remain aligned with organizational priorities and timelines
- Define KPIs, metrics and success criteria for security initiatives
- Build dashboards and reporting frameworks for program health
- Provide leadership visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes
- Ensure programs demonstrate measurable improvement to security posture
- Facilitate collaboration between security teams and internal partner teams
- Identify blockers and drive resolution across teams
- Ensure clear ownership and accountability for deliverables (RACI)
- Maintain structured communication across program stakeholders
- Help security leadership translate strategy into actionable roadmaps
- Assist in defining program milestones and success criteria
- Improve processes that support security program execution
- Identify operational gaps and opportunities for improvement
- Prepare program updates and operational briefings
- Maintain documentation for security initiatives and roadmaps
- Provide organizational visibility into the status of major security efforts
- Support prioritization and resource planning across security teams
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
