Technical Product Owner(IAM + Security)
Role summary
This role is for a Technical Product Owner focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Security within a highly regulated industry (Finance/Healthcare). The individual will drive security initiatives, improve team productivity, and contribute to the security roadmap. Responsibilities include partnering with stakeholders to understand needs, translating them into actionable outcomes for IT and security teams, managing and executing security functionality and compliance solutions, and communicating progress. The role emphasizes a data-driven approach and fostering a positive team culture within an agile environment.
Location:
Remote within the US (Travel as per need)
Must have experience required in:
- Experience with highly regulated industry - Finance / Healthcare
- Handled SOX ITGC rollout, NIST control implementation
- Agile Scrum/Kanban experience
- Driven security initiatives rather than managing ticket queues
Role Summary
This role will assist in driving a strategy to improve the day-to-day productivity and effectiveness of our security teams while delivering long-term strategic value and outcomes to our customers. You will be part of a team of product managers who are driving outcomes to bring better transparency, reportability and focus to activities. You will partner with business leaders to understand their teams’ needs and assist in translating those needs into actionable outcomes for IT and security teams. You will help drive the security program roadmap and champion the team’s efforts throughout the organization. This role will work with agile-based product teams and find the right business solutions for a complex organization operating in a complex space.
Primary Duties
- Partner with stakeholders: Collaborate with internal stakeholders and cross-functional leaders to gain a deep understanding of our operational challenges and opportunities. Research ours and adjacent industries to learn how others are tackling similar challenges. Become a subject matter expert and trusted partner to business teams
- Drive Strategy: Champion a security strategy that drives improved scale of our organization. Distill the strategy into actionable concepts, timelines, and projects. Contribute to the security roadmap, taking ownership to assure continuous alignment with broader business objectives and goals. Advocate for prioritization decisions to best utilize resources and make the case for new investments when appropriate.
- Manage and Execute: Work with a team of Product Managers to develop new security functionality and compliance solutions to drive business goals. Define metrics, measure results, make decisions based on data, and make adjustments to plans based on quantitative and qualitative signals. Lead efforts to continually improve teams’ ability to execute and be a champion of positive team culture.
- Communicate.: Communicate regularly with supervisor, stakeholders, product leads, and security personnel to keep the organization apprised of strategy, efforts and progress against goals.
Nice to have knowledge, skills, and/or abilities
● Experience in customer success, client performance management or client operations
● Experience with enterprise tool sets including Jira, Miro, Salesforce and Monday.com
● Able to gather input and familiarize yourself with a problem space, to make well-informed decisions about strategy, priorities, and roadmap investments
● Proven track record of creating, maintaining, and enhancing business relationships and communicating effectively with senior management
● Able to create and structure a product roadmap for internal tools, systems, and processes
● Able to demonstrate empathy for our users and have a keen ability to listen and understand
● Have strong analytical skills, with a proven ability to set and drive quantitative goals
● Able to simplify complex ideas into clear and convincing communications
● Experience managing and implementing security programs, frameworks, or initiatives across an organization.