Manager, Cyber Security Product Manager, Cyber Intelligence

Description

The company is a large organisation where makers, breakers, doers and disruptors work on real problems and customer needs in a fast-moving, collaborative, inclusive setting that also values managing risk.

The team is hiring cyber security professionals who know how to assess cyber capabilities, threat intelligence and risk management.

The role puts you at the front of cybersecurity governance, capability maturity and risk change across the company.

Responsibilities

• Share the delivery roadmap with technology teams and motivate them around the product vision.
• Explain the target persona, the customer benefit and the value of each feature to every team involved.
• Use your knowledge of how systems work and how code is built to help engineering teams deliver value.
• Bring your cybersecurity background and customer research to speak for customers in engineering discussions.
• Apply design thinking and analytics to shape product design.
• Take part in research and design sessions for new features.
• Help build a healthy backlog with the Product Manager, engineers and solution architects by breaking epics into stories, including technical debt and SRE work, and writing design details and thorough acceptance criteria.
• Lead internal backlog refinement to clarify cyber and customer intent, prepare epics and stories for technical breakdown and planning, and make sure engineers understand the requirements.
• Rank the backlog for business and customer outcomes, balancing technical and non-technical work and including cyber and operational risk reduction.
• Advise the product manager, engineers and other stakeholders on technical questions.
• Work across cross-functional teams and the Product Owner community, and play a key role in Agile and SAFe ceremonies.
• Help teams escalate and clear impediments.
• Use data-driven insights to improve performance and drive innovation.
• Spot opportunities when security, resilience or performance metrics for your products fall short.
• Keep technical and risk credibility with your own team and with partners across the technology organisation.

Requirements

• Basic: a bachelor's degree.
• Basic: at least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology.
• Basic: at least 4 years of experience evaluating, contributing to or supporting the development of cybersecurity capabilities.
• Basic: at least 2 years of experience in digital product management.
• Preferred: 5+ years analysing or building solutions for cyber threats, vulnerabilities, risks or events.
• Preferred: 5+ years working on teams and presenting cybersecurity information such as metrics, threat intelligence, controls and requirements to stakeholders.
• Preferred: 4+ years working in multi-cloud environments.
• Preferred: 4+ years using security tools such as Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys or AWS Security Hub.
• Preferred: 2+ years developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards.
• Preferred: familiarity with industry or financial governance processes.
• Preferred: experience with risk management, including identifying threats, assessing vulnerabilities and recommending mitigations.
• Preferred: ability to analyse security incidents, help resolve them, and turn technical findings into clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical readers.
• Preferred: 2+ years as a cyber product owner for an intelligence platform or similar capability.
• Preferred: 2+ years of technical writing.
• Preferred: 2+ years of hands-on JIRA and Confluence use.
• Preferred: 2 or more professional certifications, such as SAFe PM/PO, CISSP, GIAC (various), CISM, CCSP, AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS Security.
• Preferred: 2+ years partnering across threat intelligence, security engineering and technical research to turn intelligence into requirements, detections and roadmap targets that automate and scale intelligence work.
• Preferred: 1+ years working with the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE frameworks (ATT&CK, DEFEND, ENGAGE, F3).
• Preferred: 1+ years in scaled agile product management.
• Preferred: 1+ years dealing with digital abuse, including cyber fraud, bot mitigation, vulnerability and malware analysis and other emerging cyber threats.
• Preferred: 1+ years implementing artificial intelligence in cybersecurity.

Conditions

Based in McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 per year (full-time salary) for Manager, Cyber Security.

Based in Plano, TX, Richmond, VA or Riverwoods, IL: $179,400 - $204,700 per year (full-time salary) for Manager, Cyber Security.

Pay for other locations follows that location's range, and the exact salary is stated in the offer letter. Part-time pay is prorated to the agreed hours.

At this time the company will not sponsor new applicants for work authorisation or offer any immigration support for this role, including H-1B, F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, O-1 or any other work authorisation that needs employer immigration support.

Applications will stay open for at least 5 business days.

Agencies should not submit candidates.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants with criminal histories in line with applicable law.

Positions posted in Canada, the United Kingdom or the Philippines are employed by the local the company entity in that country.

Benefits

• Performance-based incentive pay, which may include cash bonuses and or long-term incentives, and may be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
• Comprehensive, competitive health, financial and other benefits for total well-being, with eligibility depending on full or part-time status, exempt status and management level.