[Hiring] Senior Manager, Security @LaunchDarkly

Role Description

We're looking for a senior security leader to run our Product Security team and partner to the Director of Security. In this role, you'll own how Security operates:

• A program led by risk rather than audit calendars.
• Engineering teams own their security health while Security informs, guides, and validates.
• Automation and AI take the first pass on every finding.
• Posture is measured and published to executives every quarter.

You'll build that model, starting with Product Security and extending across the division. You'll bring a balance of people management, security judgment, and program leadership as you manage a team of security engineers, act as incident manager of record, hold delegated approval for vendor and access decisions, and run the division when the Director is in an audit, a board cycle, or on vacation. You'll work closely with every engineering team to make the secure path the easy one.

Responsibilities

• Manage the portfolio of your team's work, appropriately managing everyone's time and assigning them to the highest priority work.
• Help your team and the engineering organization make sense of, and simplify, how security work gets done: who owns what, what is automated, and what Security stops doing.
• Guide product engineering teams in owning their own security health: findings route to them with mapped severity, Security reviews and validates rather than fixes, and each team sees its security health in its own service review.
• Own the wiring and routing of security findings and requests, driving down noise and the human-decision rate across intake, triage, and review.
• Serve as incident manager of record for security incidents: first escalation for our service-level commitments, delegated approver for vendor and access decisions, and cover for the Director's operational duties.
• Publish posture: monthly service-level attainment to engineering, quarterly posture to the executive team, and a risk register that drives priorities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving a security function from gatekeeper to team ownership, with measurable results.
• Experience as incident manager for security incidents at a SaaS company, including external communication.
• Experience guiding teams through technical tradeoffs and developing senior engineers' careers.
• The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
• Familiarity with AWS security at scale and with external audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP) as a participant or control owner.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration.

Requirements

• You have led a security team out of the gatekeeper model once already, and you can say what teams owned afterward, what Security stopped doing, and what the numbers did.
• You think in risk, not control lists, and you would rather defend a priority call than a checklist.
• You treat automation and AI as the first responder and yourself as the escalation path.
• You have been the second leader to a director or CISO and know which decisions to make in their name.
• You have run security incidents end to end, including the comms and the review afterward.
• You were a strong Senior or Staff security engineer before you managed, and you can still read a PR, a threat model, or a cloud finding and make a call.
• You track and drive metrics, and you understand what they can and can't tell you.

Benefits

• Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level M3:
• Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $240,600 - 330,700
• Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $216,500 - 297,600
• Zone 3: All other US locations - $204,500 - 281,100
• All Zones Inclusive of 15% Bonus Target.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.