Vulnerability Management Team Lead

SailPoint•Austin, TX

7d•Remote

About The Position

Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Team Lead SailPoint’s Cybersecurity organization is seeking a Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Team Lead with a passion for cybersecurity. This role ensures the continuous discovery, accurate assessment, risk-based prioritization, and successful remediation of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across all IT assets, directly reducing the organization's exposure and maintaining regulatory compliance. We are seeking a colleague who is an experienced leader with deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and a proven track record of building scalable security programs in complex environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading the daily activities of a team securing SailPoint’s production environments from misconfigurations and software vulnerabilities. driving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring that products meet the highest standards of security, availability, and trust. This person will drive the cultural and technical shift from reactive vulnerability patching to proactive, threat-informed risk reduction. Our new Vulnerability Management Team Lead will join a growing and capable threat and vulnerability management team of both emerging and established talent. This potential team member will be comfortable with the 4 I’s at SailPoint (individual, Impact, Innovation, and Integrity) even if they’re new to the concept. They will embrace new challenges and by being their authentic self will be a positive contributor to an already positive work culture and environment. This is a challenging and impactful role where you will have the opportunity to work with a variety of stakeholders, including our fantastic colleagues in IT, DevOps, Product engineering, security engineering, and the security operations center. This role reports directly to the Head of Vulnerability Management and will be remote.

Requirements

5-7 years in leadership roles, preferably in product or application security.
Strong engineering experience with cloud, containers, open-source code, deployment and misconfigurations
Advanced experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell) for automating data ingestion, reporting, or integrating VM data into other security tools (SIEM/SOAR).
Experience with secure software development practices and tools.
Experience and knowledge of artificial intelligence software security, including OWASP AI Security and Privacy Guide, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Cybersecurity AI (CAI), Open SSF AI/ML Security Framework.
Experience with regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, GDPR).
Experience building relationships with software engineering teams, including managing mature product security including final security reviews, and risk-driven product scoring/metrics.
Strategic Vision & Execution - Ability to define and communicate a clear vision for product security and resilience aligned with enterprise goals.
Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in the efficiency of vulnerability remediation through automation, ticketing system integration (e.g., Jira), and process streamlining.
Influence & Collaboration – Demonstrable experience building strong partnerships across an organization to drive secure-by-design culture.
Application Security – Familiarity with application security testing tools (SAST/DAST) and integrating vulnerability findings into development workflows.
Technical Leadership – Deep understanding of product security issues (like XXE, SSRF, Injections, etc.), modern software development (fully automated CI/CD, REST, OAuth2) including multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, Containers, Kubernetes) architectures, particularly Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, and software bill of materials (SBOM).
Change Management – Experience leading organizational change initiatives to embed security and resilience into product development lifecycles.
Risk-Based Decision Making – Experience making informed decisions through balancing business priorities, technical constraints, and risk exposure.
Executive Communication – Experience communicating complex technical concepts and ongoing program updates clearly to non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

Certifications like CISSP, CISM, CISA, AWS, or CCNSE are beneficial.
If the candidate does not have the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or AWS Certified Cloud Security – Specialty, they must take these certifications within first year of employment.

Responsibilities

Developing and lead the enterprise-wide product security and resilience strategy, aligning with business goals and regulatory requirements.
Partnering with Dev/Ops, engineering, product management, and infrastructure teams to integrate vulnerability management practices into production environments.
Identifying risk in a production environment comprised of a sophisticated SaaS architecture consisting of dozens of microservices.
Explaining risks, identifying dependencies, and facilitating the remediation process by providing necessary details and context.
Developing and enforce a prioritization framework that utilizes risk context beyond standard CVSS scores, factoring in asset criticality, exposure to the public internet, and internal threat intelligence (e.g., active exploitation in the wild).
Establishing and oversee secure architecture patterns, threat modeling practices, and resilience engineering frameworks.
Driving adoption of security automation, vulnerability management, and secure coding standards across product teams.
Monitoring for emerging threats, technologies, and compliance trends to proactively evolve the security posture.
Collaborating with with SailPoint’s risk team to establish the risk acceptance criteria and service level objectives (SLOs) with business leaders and asset owners, ensuring remediation efforts are directly aligned with organizational risk appetite.
Collaborating with SailPoint’s legal, compliance, and risk teams to ensure alignment with global standards and certifications.
Generating operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), such as Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), Remediation Compliance Rate, and overall vulnerability density for different business units.
Providing program performance reporting and metrics per business unit and product.

Benefits

Competitive pay, 401(k) and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans.
Recharge your batteries with a flexible vacation policy and paid holidays.
Grow with us with both technical and career growth opportunities.
Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with flexible hours, family-friendly company events and charitable work.
Health and wellness coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability
Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children
Flexible spending accounts for health care, and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account
Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching
Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy
Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually
Sick leave
Parental support: Paid parental leave
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors
Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution