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 evolvi