Technical Program Manager, Security

About us

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

About the role

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. Our users depend on us to deliver a secure and trustworthy experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep building on that trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — partnering with teams within our Security, Trust, & IT organization to help us forge a strong, reliable, and secure path forward to the future.

What you’ll achieve

As our Technical Program Manager, you’ll be responsible for designing, launching, and operating Security-related projects and programs — ensuring that teams in the organization work together quickly, efficiently, and at a high quality bar. You’ll also help to unify all initiatives across the organizations, running and refining processes for engagement, reporting, and response that create the rhythm for our work.

• Operate and continuously improve our project management systems and practices to align our Engineering, Operations, and Program management teams
• Monitor key project progress, quickly identifying potential risks and implementing mitigations
• Design and implement a comprehensive vulnerability management program, ensuring timely identification, assessment, and remediation or acceptance of security risks
• Define and own our service-level agreements with teams across Notion, building relevant reporting and driving accountability for all stakeholders
• Partner with engineering managers to drive the execution of complex technical, multi-team projects, from planning to delivery
• Facilitate transparent communication across Security teams, other Notion teams, and executive stakeholder
• Drive periodic planning processes to set Security strategy and OKRs, ensure that our resources and budget are aligned to our priorities

Skills you’ll need to bring

• Experience: 5+ years managing programs at scale as a Technical Program Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, or a similar field, preferably at a growth-stage software business. Familiarity with vulnerability management when working with Engineering teams.
• Speed: You bias towards action and operate with ambition, creating repeatable processes that help the multi-disciplinary teams you manage do the same
• Collaboration: People on the teams you operationalize become the best versions of themselves by working with you
• Order agent: You thrive in the day-to-day and are task oriented, and are always seeking to turn ambiguity into clarity
• Skilled executor: You’re able to operate at all levels within an organization, from designing org-wide Planning processes, to planning a project sprint, to ensuring project are updated correctly; you have a track record successfully leading complex technical projects
• Communication: You can communicate across altitudes, from high-level executive updates to in the weeds timeline discussions with engineers
• High EQ: You’re great at reading both people and rooms, and can adapt your operating style situationally
• Data sense: You know how to find the “so what’s” when analyzing data, and how to craft insights into a narrative to effect change. You can perform basic to intermediate data analysis.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience using Notion - bonus points for work use
• Understanding of Security principles, Risk management, and Vulnerability management.
• Competency with common data analysis tools - Excel, SQL, or similar
• Past experience in an analyst or generalist role

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our c