Hybrid Director of Product Security

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About the role

  • Director of Product Security at Abridge, defining and driving product security strategy. Leading security assurance, proactive risk reduction, and maintaining world-class security posture in hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

  • Product Security Strategy: Define and continuously evolve the long-term Product Security strategy, ensuring alignment with Abridge.ai's business goals and technological advancements.
  • Security Roadmap Ownership: Own the creation and execution of the Product Security roadmap, including security features, SDLC enhancements, threat modeling initiatives, and overall risk reduction milestones.
  • Financial Oversight: Manage the Product Security budget, including forecasting security tool expenditures, vendor contracts, and personnel resource allocation.
  • Metric-Driven Management: Define, track, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) and security metrics to measure the effectiveness of all security programs and provide data-driven insights to leadership.
  • Impact Analysis: Conduct regular impact analysis (ROI) of security investments and lead time/cost-reduction efforts. Translate complex security risks into clear business risk terms to justify strategic initiatives.
  • Lead and Mentor: Serve as a motivating people leader for a growing team of Security Engineers and Analysts, providing career development, mentorship, and regular performance feedback.
  • Strategy and Scaling: Define and execute on goals in a hypergrowth AI company, focusing on enabling secure AI development and deployment globally.
  • Security Industry Engagement: Actively participate in and be a thought leader for the security industry by giving talks at conferences, publishing papers, hosting forums, etc.
  • Multi-Cloud Strategy: Define the security architecture and strategy for our cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.).
  • Containerization Security: Lead the implementation of security controls for containerized applications, with a deep focus on securing Kubernetes clusters, including network policies and secrets management.
  • IaC Security: Implement security guardrails within Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) to ensure all cloud resources are provisioned securely.
  • Integrate Security: Partner with Engineering and Product leadership to embed security processes into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Security Practices: Develop and oversee secure coding practices, security architecture reviews, and static/dynamic code analysis practices across all applications.
  • Vulnerability Management: Direct the vulnerability management and penetration testing programs, ensuring comprehensive coverage and rapid, prioritized remediation of findings.
  • Data Protection: Lead the data security program, focusing on the protection, encryption, and access controls for highly sensitive patient data (PII, PHI, AI models, etc.).
  • AI/ML Security: Establish security engineering practices for our AI/ML models and pipeline, including model integrity, adversarial attack prevention, model red-teaming, securing agentic AI, etc.

Requirements

  • Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in security, with a minimum of 10 years leading security teams, programs, or large-scale initiatives in a senior leadership capacity.
  • Business Acumen: Demonstrated experience running security as a business unit, including budget management, strategic forecasting, and translating technical risk into business impact (ROI).
  • Engineering Proficiency: Must be proficient, at an engineering level, in at least one or more general-purpose programming languages. Experience with Python and/or NextJS is a significant plus.
  • Cloud Expertise: Deep technical expertise in securing at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and demonstrable experience with modern cloud security principles and tools.
  • Containerization: Mandatory expertise in securing container orchestration technologies, specifically Kubernetes.
  • Industry Knowledge: Proven experience securing products (enterprise SaaS, cloud environments) handling highly sensitive data, such as Protected Health Information (PHI), with specific knowledge of NIST 800-53 / 800-171, FedRAMP, HIPAA, NIS2 and other relevant security and privacy regulations and frameworks.
  • Communication: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex security issues and technical risks to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives, customers, government agencies, and board members.

Benefits

  • Generous Time Off: 14 paid holidays, flexible PTO for salaried employees, and accrued time off for hourly employees
  • Comprehensive Health Plans: Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for all full-time employees and their families.
  • Generous HSA Contribution: If you choose a High Deductible Health Plan, Abridge makes monthly contributions to your HSA.
  • Paid Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave for all full-time employees.
  • Family Forming Benefits: Resources and financial support to help you build your family.
  • 401(k) Matching: Contribution matching to help invest in your future.
  • Personal Device Allowance: Tax free funds for personal device usage.
  • Pre-tax Benefits: Access to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Commuter Benefits.
  • Lifestyle Wallet: Monthly contributions for fitness, professional development, coworking, and more.
  • Mental Health Support: Dedicated access to therapy and coaching to help you reach your goals.
  • Sabbatical Leave: Paid Sabbatical Leave after 5 years of employment.
  • Compensation and Equity: Competitive compensation and equity grants for full time employees.
  • ... and much more!

Job title

Director of Product Security

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$306,000 - $360,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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