Director, Product Security

Director, Product Security
Capital One is seeking a technical security product leader to deliver game-changing cybersecurity solutions based on threat, data, and design thinking. We are a technology-oriented company delivering financial products to market through modern technology and constant innovation at a massive scale. That innovation includes leveraging technology to deliver the best cybersecurity solutions for our internal and external customers.
As a candidate for this role, you're able to seamlessly switch from executive-level risk conversations to diving deep into controls and technology to driving high level, strategic discussions around roadmaps and security solutions. You are naturally curious and stay on top of emerging trends and threats. You are not afraid to question any existing processes and solutions, yet you display a keen sense of business value proposition and focus on the right priorities. You are a clear thinker, thrive in working across teams, and an expert in dealing with ambiguity. You believe that a core component of security's role is to enable the business, not just to secure it, and the solutions you bring to life are aligned to the needs of our engineering community and business partners. You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.
What you'll do...

• Develop and communicate a risk-based and data-driven strategy and outcome-driven roadmaps for enterprise security services, solutions, and capabilities, in partnership with engineering and operations partners, customers, and other stakeholders
• Analyze and select alternatives based on threat, risk, desirability, feasibility, and viability
• Keep abreast of advances in industry to address the threat landscape
• Advise executive decision makers based on business and technology risk grounded in threat
• Facilitate build vs. buy decisions to identify optimal strategies for addressing business and technology risks
• Develop and lead RFI/RFPs to assess the market and/or procure effective cyber solutions
• Manage product level budgets, roadmaps, and strategies to lead service area direction out 18+ months.
• Maintain technical and risk credibility with your own team and with partners across the enterprise
• Maintain close ties to various stakeholders, developers, and engineers across the company, ensuring the services we create meet their needs as products evolve
• Iterate quickly and see the products through to production and scale
• Establish product value propositions, metrics, and key indicators
• Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead those around you to be their best

About You...

• You have strong consulting and analytical skills
• You have the ability to foster collaborative, open, working relationships with technology groups and other stakeholders, including vendor relationships
• You have demonstrated clear communication skills and ability to interact effectively at all levels of an organization, and to influence senior management and executives (Including translating technical information based on specific audiences)
• You have experience managing multiple high-visibility and high-impact enterprise cybersecurity projects with cross-functional teams while maintaining superior results including planning, development and management of technical requirements, design, testing and deployment of security solutions
• You have experience implementing, leading, and maturing advisory and assurance operations such as threat modeling, risk assessments, and DevSecOps
• You have a proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• You believe that a core component of security's role is to enable the business, not just to secure it, and the solutions you bring to life are aligned to the needs of our developer community, customers, and business partners.
• You thrive in working in a fast paced, technologically forward leaning environment and are not afraid to push the boundaries of security capabilities.
• You seek to create enduring value by delivering reusable, extensible and resilient cybersecurity capabilities to address the evolving threat landscape
• You actively solve for cyber technical challenges in collaboration with engineering.
• You have a passion for cybersecurity.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 7 years of experience in cybersecurity
• At least 5 years of people management experience
• At least 5 years of experience translating cybersecurity strategy and analysis into product and service requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or Computer Science
• 6+ years of experience solving cyber technical challenges, including translating business strategy and analysis into products
• 6+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into products
• 5+ years of experience in public cloud security
• 4+ years of Cyber product owner / management experience
• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Networking (Container security, secrets management, data protection, etc.)
• 2+ years in managing products that assess risk/threat and/or produce cyber analytics, e.g. Risk Appetite Metrics (RAMs)
• Industry recognized professional certifications (CISSP, GIAC, CISM, CCSP, CISA, CRISC, SAFe Product Management, AWS Security, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, AWS Solutions Architect)

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
Sales Territory: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Cyber Technical
Plano, TX: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Cyber Technical
McLean, VA: $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Cyber Technical
Richmond, VA: $239,900 - $273,800 for Director, Cyber Technical
New York, NY: $287,800 - $328,500 for Director, Cyber Technical
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.
This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.
Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website . Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.
This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.
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