Manager, Security Engineering

Our mission at Greenhouse is to make hiring work for everyone – so we go to great lengths to hire great people because we believe that they’re the foundation of our success. At Greenhouse, you’ll join a team that collaborates purposefully, fosters inclusivity, and communicates with transparency and accountability so we can achieve our mission. Join us to do the best work of your career, solving meaningful problems with remarkable teams.

As the Manager, Security Engineering, you’ll lead a team of Product and Corporate Security Engineers and own the Product and Corporate Security strategy and roadmaps. You’ll act as a security engineering point of contact for stakeholders and drive responsible and secure AI adoption across security engineering workflows.

Who will love this job

• A proactive problem solver - you understand the details, see the bigger picture, and help teams build secure-by-default products and resilient corporate systems.
• An entrepreneur - you are excited by new challenges and inventing the future of security engineering practices, including leveraging AI to scale workflows.
• A leader - you enjoy mentoring others and helping them grow over time.
• A communicator - you can bridge the gap between security decisions and product needs and earn buy-in from your stakeholders.

What you’ll do

• Lead strategy and roadmap development across our distinct Product Security and Corporate Security teams, aligning priorities to company and customer needs.
• Build an AI-native security engineering team by identifying high-value uses of AI and agentic workflows across security assessments, triage, patching, investigations, response, documentation, and self-service.
• Strengthen the Security Partner model and help product and engineering teams build secure-by-default products and services.
• Improve vulnerability management, penetration testing, bug bounty operations, product incident response, and defenses against abuse and adversarial traffic.
• Lead Corporate Security initiatives across identity and access management, endpoints, email, business systems, detection, and response.
• Establish responsible AI practices, including non-human identity, appropriate data handling, access boundaries, human oversight, evaluation, and auditability.
• Create repeatable processes, automation, paved roads, and self-service capabilities that make secure decisions easier for engineers and employees.
• Set clear goals, operating rhythms, and measures of success while continuously improving how both teams work.
• Coach and mentor security engineers, support their growth, and build a culture of ownership, curiosity, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Represent Security Engineering to R&D, IT, Legal, Compliance, Information Security, and leadership, translating business risk into prioritized work.

You should have

• Experience managing and developing security engineers, with a track record of setting direction and building high-performing teams.
• Significant security engineering experience in a fast-paced technology or B2B SaaS company.
• Experience using AI to improve security or engineering workflows, along with the judgment to help teams adopt it responsibly.
• Experience setting strategy and delivering security programs in partnership with Engineering, Product, IT, or other technical teams.
• Product Security experience, including embedding security into product and engineering lifecycles.
• Application Security and security architecture experience.
• Experience securing cloud environments running in AWS and Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern IAM and zero-trust security, including platforms and protocols such as Okta, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
• Experience with security operations, including detection, response, or incident management.
• Strong judgment, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to balance customer trust, business context, and engineering velocity.

Your own unique talents! Your background has given you a unique perspective and set of transferable skills that aren't always in alignment with a given role - but those are qualities we value at Greenhouse. If you don't meet 100% of the qualifications outlined above, we still strongly encourage you to apply.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada as of the start date chosen by the Company.