Security Technical Program Manager

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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a Fly Mate. At Flywire, we're on a mission to deliver the world's most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.

What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!

Who we are:
Flywire is a global payments enablement and software company, founded more than a decade ago to solve high-stakes, high-value payments in higher education. We've since scaled into new regions and industry verticals and expanded our product offerings to deliver meaningful value to our clients around the world.

Today we support more than 5,300 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.

With over 1,400 global Fly Mates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 15 offices world-wide, we're looking for Fly Mates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.

The Opportunity:

As the Security Technical Program Manager, you will serve as the strategic operational bridge connecting the Security Risk Engineering function with global Product, Engineering, and SRE teams. You will orchestrate mission-critical security programs from inception to deployment, transforming abstract security, compliance, and risk initiatives into high-impact, actionable roadmaps. This role requires a balance of rigorous technical program management, financial services acumen, and modern technical insight across cloud architectures and AI ecosystems to ensure Flywire moves fast and remains secure by design.

Responsibilities and Tasks (in order of priority)

• Security Lifecycle Program Management:
  Lead and drive cross-functional "Security by Design" and Secure-SDLC initiatives across critical application launches, automated workflows, and emerging AI tools from ideation to deployment.
• AI-Driven Process Efficiency:
  Actively adopt and leverage internal enterprise AI tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate program tracking, streamline documentation, optimize cross-functional security workflows, and continuously drive operational efficiency.
• Vulnerability & Threat Orchestration:
  Coordinate the end-to-end vulnerability lifecycle, partnering directly with Product, SRE, and Software Engineering to ensure rapid prioritization, tracking, and remediation of technical risks.
• Information Security Compliance & Regulatory Audits:
  Oversee complex technical security assessments and audits to ensure continuous, strict readiness for PCI-DSS, SOX, SOC 1, and SOC 2 frameworks.
• Strategic Roadmap & Operational Governance:
  Establish, maintain, and communicate the security engineering program roadmap, defining clear project charters, timelines, success metrics, and the technical "Definition of Done" for executive stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Enablement:
  Partner with high-velocity software engineering and infrastructure teams to integrate secure technical guardrails seamlessly without inducing development velocity friction.
• Team Performance & Mentorship:
  Provide guidance and operational coaching to junior members of the security and program teams, cultivating a culture of technical excellence and collaborative risk awareness.

Here's

What We're Looking For:

Education, Experience/Knowledge & License/Certification

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's or Master's degree required in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Core
  
  Experience:
  
  5+ years of progressive experience in Technical Program Management (TPM), driving complex Information Security, Application Security, or Cyber Risk initiatives within highly scalable technology environments.
• Industry & Domain Requirement:
  Extensive experience operating within the Financial Services and global Payments Industry space is required. Must possess a deep structural understanding of high-stakes financial platform mechanics, transaction processing life cycles, and payment clearing rails.
• Information Security Compliance & Audit Mastery:
  Proven track record of managing, executing, and delivering complex end-to-end audits for strict financial and core data privacy frameworks, with…