[Hiring] Senior Manager, Security Engineering @6sense

Role Description

Lead the security engineering organization that protects 6sense's AI-enabled, cloud-native SaaS platform. This leader owns Vulnerability Operations, Infrastructure Security, and Application/Product Security, and is accountable for building scalable security capabilities that enable rapid product delivery without compromising customer trust, resilience, or compliance. The role leads a distributed team across the United States and India and combines strategic leadership with credible technical judgment.

Core Responsibilities

• Organization and People Leadership
  • Lead, coach, and develop managers and engineers across the United States and India.
  • Establish role clarity, career paths, succession coverage, and consistent performance expectations.
  • Create an operating cadence that supports asynchronous execution, reliable cross-region handoffs, rapid escalation, and shared accountability.
  • Build workforce and capacity plans aligned to product growth, AI investment, risk, and business priorities.
  • Foster a culture of constructive challenge, disagree and commit, continuous learning, quality, and automation-first improvement.
• AI and Product Security
  • Own the security strategy for AI-enabled product capabilities from design through production.
  • Address AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, insecure tool or agent access, sensitive-data exposure, model and data pipeline integrity, excessive agency, abuse, and third-party model or service dependencies.
  • Partner with AI/ML, Product, and Engineering teams to define secure patterns for models, agents, and data access.
  • Advance product security practices including secure software development lifecycle controls, application security testing, and coordinated vulnerability disclosure.
• Vulnerability Operations
  • Own end-to-end vulnerability discovery, prioritization, remediation governance, and validation.
  • Incorporate exploitability, internet exposure, asset criticality, and active threat intelligence into prioritization.
  • Improve remediation speed and predictability through automation and transparent ownership.
  • Establish effective coverage for software supply chain risk.
• Infrastructure and Cloud Security
  • Own preventive and detective security guardrails for the AWS environment.
  • Partner with Infrastructure and Platform Engineering to make secure cloud patterns easy to adopt.
  • Drive least privilege, secure administrative access, and continuous cloud risk reduction.
  • Ensure architecture and change reviews focus on material risk while preserving engineering velocity.
• Strategy, Governance, and Business Partnership
  • Translate business strategy, product roadmaps, and audit requirements into a multi-quarter security engineering roadmap.
  • Define quarterly objectives and key results that show coverage, outcomes, trends, and remaining exposure.
  • Communicate risk and tradeoffs clearly to technical leaders and executives.
  • Maintain policies, standards, control evidence, and operating procedures that support applicable obligations.
  • Evaluate and rationalize security tools and services based on measurable risk reduction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in information security, including significant experience in product or application security, cloud security, vulnerability management, or security engineering.
• 3+ years leading security engineering teams, including experience managing distributed or cross-region teams.
• Demonstrated ability to build and mature security programs in a cloud-native SaaS environment, preferably on AWS.
• Practical experience securing modern software delivery, including secure development lifecycle practices.
• Working knowledge of AI and machine learning security risks and controls.
• Strong executive and technical communication skills.
• Knowledge of relevant practices and frameworks such as NIST, OWASP, and ISO 27001.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant certification such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or an advanced cloud security certification.
• Experience in a high-growth business-to-business SaaS company and in customer-facing security assurance.

Benefits

• Health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays.
• Quarterly self-care days off, and stock options.
• Access to learning and development initiatives including LinkedIn Learning.
• Quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self-care and personal growth.