Product Security Lab Lead

About the role

Your job: Provides disciplinary leadership to the Product Security Lab team and builds a stable, motivated, high-performing team through coaching, feedback, and structured development.

Effectively engages with the team, understands their challenges, and supports operational decision-making.

Owes hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, goal setting, and succession planning in alignment with the matrix manager.

Ensures timely, high-quality delivery of product security testing commitments agreed during PI planning by monitoring capacity, workload, and delivery risks, and escalating bottlenecks proactively.

Maintains structured planning, backlog readiness, and transparent tracking of execution while collaborating closely with the global Head of Product Security to align on priorities, goals, and expectations.

Supports audits, assessments, and compliance activities relevant to the Product Security Lab while developing the team in line with global demand and roadmap priorities.

Drives the maturity of the lab from a startup setup to a resilient, autonomous operating model, ensuring knowledge retention, effective documentation, and sustainable ways of working.

Qualifications

Demonstrates experience in line or team management within engineering, testing, or security environments, with proven ability to lead experienced specialists and expert teams.

Strong track record in delivery management, people leadership, and scaling teams, with solid understanding of Product Security principles and practices to effectively lead and support a team of security specialists.

Pentesting expertise is a plus.

Effectively operates within matrix organizations with shared accountability, working in a structured, reliable, and execution focused manner.

Balances people needs, delivery expectations, and organizational constraints while communicating effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones.

Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an added advantage.