Technical Program Manager - Security

About the role

A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Technical Program Manager, Security, you are the engine behind Palantir's security engineering teams.

Core Responsibilities

• Partner with Palantir security engineers, infrastructure teams, product managers, and legal to drive key security deliverables through the entire software development and security lifecycle.
• Synthesize concrete security goals from product and threat landscape vision, mapping global security strategy to granular team tasks and issues.
• This means triaging requests from the field to create maximum focus for the team, while escalating items that need immediate attention.
• Keep broad and complete state of everything involving or related to your projects, including vulnerability remediation timelines, incident response obligations, and detection coverage gaps.
• Pre-empt and resolve any issues that may steer projects off-course.
• Enhance cross-team collaboration across security engineering, IT, legal, and customer-facing teams.
• Read a room of technical experts to align them around shared objectives.
• Improve efficiency where you see miscommunication or lack of coordination.
• Design, document, and continuously improve security processes and operational frameworks to scale programs without proportional increases in manual effort.
• Drive incident response coordination, ensuring clear ownership, timely communication, and structured post-incident review processes that result in lasting improvements.
• Work with customer-facing engineering teams on adoption, roll out, and support of security-related product features and certifications.

What We Value

• Demonstrated success managing complex security or software development programs for an enterprise software company, startup or otherwise.
• An ability to engage in technical discussion and invest in learning security concepts, including threat detection, vulnerability management, incident response, and cloud infrastructure security.
• Excellent judgment and composure in high-pressure situations, including during active security incidents.
• A creative approach to program management centered around lightweight frameworks that enable rapid iteration, while operating in harmony with a larger security and engineering organization.
• An ability to develop strong relationships with both technical security teams and customer-facing stakeholders, with a high level of empathy for our end-users' needs.
• Meticulous attention to detail, including holding tightly to your team's security and product quality bar.
• A proven track record of building and scaling security programs and processes from the ground up.
• A relevant technical background or experience in a security or software-related field is a plus, but not required.

What We Require

• This role requires that you work from the country listed on this job posting and that you are based within a commutable distance of your local Palantir office.
• Willingness and eligibility to obtain a U.S. security clearance preferred.

Pay and Benefits

The estimated salary range for this position is estimated to be $93,000 - $160,000/year. Total compensation for this position may also include Restricted Stock units, sign-on bonus and other potential future incentives. Further note that total compensation for this position will be determined by each individual’s relevant qualifications, work experience, skills, and other factors. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of Palantirians’ lives. We work to continuously improve our offerings and listen to our community as we design and update them. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Palantir Technologies.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Voluntary life insurance
• Commute benefits
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual paid holidays
• Supportive leave of absence program
• Family building benefits
• 401(k) plan

Pay at Palantir is competitive and reflects the value we place on our employees. We strive to provide a fair and equitable compensation structure that rewards performance and recognizes the unique contributions of each individual. Our goal is to attract and retain top talent by offering competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a positive work environment.

In keeping consistent with Palantir’s values and culture, we believe employees are “better together” and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity.

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