Senior Director of Managed Security Portfolio

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.  Come join the excellence!

Overview

The role is accountable for the full end-to-end product lifecycle, including product strategy(s), product profitability management, pre-sales support, product compliance, product innovation and roadmap delivery.
The role will require you to demonstrate strategic thinking, leadership, experience in the security domain. Accountability in the role comes from delivering outcomes and requires an individual with a results-driven mindset to drive the success of the portfolio, requiring an ability to work in a global matrixed environment to deliver results and objectives.

Responsibilities

The Role:

This role will be responsible for leading the portfolio of TNS’ Payment Markets Managed Security across the globe. The portfolio of products includes:

• 3DS (Online payments)
• Captcha (Online payments)
• Geo blocking
• P2PE
• EMV Certifications
• PCI-DSS
• TNSLink for Retail - SD-WAN security features and services
• Tokenization
• Scheme Tokenization
• Fraud Integration Services
• Other Compliance and/or Regulatory mandates (e.g. FCA, DORA)

The strategic value you will bring:

• You will be responsible for defining the product vision and strategy, aligning it with the company's overall goals and market opportunities by establishing a clear direction for the product.
• Being the voice of Managed Security across the globe. Understanding trends in security and what that means to TNS.
• You will be accountable for driving revenue growth, profitability growth / improvement and expanding the company's market presence by delivering innovative products that meet customer needs and outpace competitors.
• Influential Leadership: Build and nurture relationships across all levels of the organization, including the Payment Market divisional leadership team.
• In consultation with our Regional Managing Directors, you will champion the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that products are designed and delivered with the end-user in mind.

Our expectations of you include:

• Provide global leadership to the Global Managed Security product portfolio. Establishing and maintaining the product portfolio including hardware platforms, strategy and execution.    
• Product lifecycle management including new product development, lifecycle product planning and management, EOL, and sustainable support of existing products in the portfolio
• Market and customer analysis, requirements development, business case development, collateral content contributions, product strategy, and product positioning
• Excellent understanding and management of Profit and Loss
• Management of vendors – Ensuring best price and value for products and services.
• Source of knowledge in your field of expertise, including trends and technologies. The trusted advisor to our engineering and support teams including training on the challenge’s customers are trying to solve with combining Accept, Connect, Orchestrate and Security portfolios.
• 10+ years of work experience in product management.
• 7+ years of Managed Security experience  
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Prior success with supporting Pre-Sales activities including training, and client ideations.
• Knowledge of electronic payments and related data security best practices (PCI-DSS)
• Network Security Expertise - experience with network firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and overall network security practices.
• Familiarity with Security Operations Center (SOC) processes, including incident response and threat analysis.
• Knowledge of Latest Attack Vectors - Deep understanding of current social engineering tactics and technical exploits used by attackers.
• API Security Proficiency - Expertise in securing APIs and addressing vulnerabilities specific to API integrations.
• OWASP Knowledge - Strong knowledge of the OWASP Top Ten security risks and best practices for mitigating web application vulnerabilities. Strong knowledge of the OWASP Top Ten security risks and best practices for mitigating web application vulnerabilities.
• HSMs
• Terminal Key Injection
• Cloud Security Solutions - AWS, Azure, Google
• Encryption knowledge - symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption

Qualifications (nice to have):

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Security, Business, or a related field