Director, Product Security

POL - Wrocław · Remotefull timeRemote

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Director, Product Security at Gainsight · LumiJobs

senior

$468k–$540k

H1B: no

Gainsight Director, Product Security at Gainsight leads the product security strategy embedding Secure by Design principles across the cloud-native SaaS platform. This role manages a global team and drives security architecture reviews and threat modeling throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a full-time Director, Product Security to join our Security team reporting to the Chief Security Officer. This role is a hybrid role based out of Poland.
Maturing the application security program
Increasing Test Coverage (% of Assets): The percentage of active repositories, microservices, and endpoints monitored by SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning tools
Security Gates Passed/Failed: The ratio of builds that are automatically blocked from deployment due to high-severity policy violations.
Managing a team of global team of product security engineer
This role may require occasional travel (up to 10-25%) for team meetings, training, or company events. This is not a complete list of responsibilities, and the scope of the role may evolve with the needs of the team and business.

Qualification

Deep expertise in Secure SDLCExperience buildingNice-to-have skills

Required

13+ years of experience across Software Engineering, Security Engineering, Application Security, or Product Security, with at least 7 years leading security organizations.
Proven experience building or scaling Product Security programs within modern SaaS or cloud-native environments.
Deep expertise in Secure SDLC, Secure by Design, threat modeling, security architecture, application security, API security, and modern authentication and authorization frameworks.
Demonstrated success partnering with Engineering and Product leadership to influence architecture, design decisions, and security strategy.
Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
Experience driving organization-wide vulnerability management and product risk remediation programs.
Ability to communicate technical risk effectively to executive leadership and drive cross-functional alignment.
Experience building, mentoring, and leading high-performing Product Security teams.
Nice-to-have skills:
Experience securing AI/GenAI-powered products and platforms.
Hands-on software engineering background with experience building distributed systems.
Experience implementing security automation within modern CI/CD environments.