VP, Product Security

Early Warning® • Scottsdale, AZ

1d • $289,000 - $372,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This position provides security and thought leadership for the Early Warning Product Security program, including developing, implementing, and maturing security on all Early Warning product offerings to minimize the possibility of malicious access, attacks, and data breaches. The position employs a high level of technical knowledge in cloud security, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines to create secure and scalable financial products. The position reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), but recognizing the network-wide nature of the responsibility, will frequently be involved with product management, product development, product engineering, cloud engineering, 3rd party audits, regulator interaction, and customer-facing security issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physical Science
• 13 or more years of relevant work experience and leadership experience in applicable information security roles.
• Experience with various types of information security tools and controls.
• Clear and concise understanding of current security vulnerabilities and attacks.
• Experience evaluating and assigning risk levels to uncovered issues.
• Experience with the OWASP Top 10 and other Application Security issues.
• Extensive experience with network security design and protection, application development, application security issues, operating system security, hardening standards, and protection mechanisms.
• Extensive and diverse experience with the fundamentals of security devices (design and function).
• Ability to articulate the practical and technical application of the following standards: (ISO, PCI, FedRAMP and FISMA).
• Excellent verbal, written skills, and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to support complex organizational relationships.
• Background and drug screen.
• Must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Ten or more years of product, architecture, or cloud security experience within the financial sector.
• In-depth knowledge with public cloud service architectures such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Certifications: CISSP, GCSA, CISM, CISA or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Provides exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high-performance teams.
• Creates frictionless paths for engineering teams to securely build and deploy new products.
• Manages the development, deployment, and execution of controls and defenses to ensure the security and risk mitigation of developed products and digital payment systems.
• Identifies and designs cybersecurity architecture, goals, objectives, and performance metrics, including KRIs and KPIs; analyzes business needs and priorities for protection of critical systems.
• Establishes and implements appropriate product security standards for secure development, operations, and compliance.
• Leverages in-depth knowledge of threat modeling, secure software development lifecycle, cloud security, cryptography, authentication, and authorization design patterns.
• Leads cross-functional teams to architect, design, and deploy secure cloud services and application architecture.
• Leads purple team certifications for all products to ensure that products are designed with logging and monitoring capabilities adequate for detecting and responding to all potential cybersecurity events.
• Provides subject matter expertise and support for vulnerability audits and product incident response.
• Oversees the quality of code analysis, reporting, and resolution.
• Identifies issue trends and drives root cause resolutions.
• Evaluates potential business impacts from security breaches and provides strategic and tactical guidance to business decision-makers.
• Develops and executes security systems compliance policies and procedures.
• Prevents production vulnerabilities and ensures quick resolution of security testing findings, such as bug bounty, penetration testing, or audit findings.
• Interacts with customers, regulators, and auditors on a regular basis.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
• Company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees.
• 11 paid company holidays
• Paid volunteer day
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive