Vice President, Product Security
Job in
Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota, 55792, USA
Listed on 2026-09-13
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Qualys
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-13
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection, Security Management & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Qualifications Leadership & Executive Management- 12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, application security, product security, cloud security, or security architecture, including 7+ years in senior leadership roles managing globally distributed security, engineering, and architecture teams.
- Proven experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing Product Security organizations supporting large-scale SaaS, cloud-native, and enterprise software platforms.
- Demonstrated success leading directors, senior managers, architects, and security engineering teams across multiple geographies and product portfolios.
- Experience owning multi-million-dollar security budgets, strategic planning processes, headcount forecasting, vendor relationships, and security program execution.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate technical risk, business impact, and security strategy to Boards of Directors, Executive Leadership Teams, auditors, regulators, and customer executives.
- Proven ability to influence security and product roadmaps across Engineering, Product Management, Cloud Operations, Legal, Compliance, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Corporate Security organizations.
- Experience participating in M&A due diligence, product security assessments, and post-acquisition security integration activities is highly desirable.
- Deep expertise in product security, application security, cloud security, Dev Sec Ops , software supply chain security, and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling:
- Security-by-design principles
- Threat modeling frameworks
- Secure coding standards
- Vulnerability management programs
- Red teaming exercises
- Bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs
- Software supply chain security controls
- SBOM management
- Secure CI/CD pipelines
- Container and Kubernetes security
- Extensive knowledge of modern authentication and identity architectures including:
- Zero Trust
- OAuth2
- OpenID Connect
- SAML
- PKI
- Hardware-backed cryptography
- Secrets management
- PAM solutions
- Deep understanding of modern security frameworks including:
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- NIST SP 800-53
- NIST SP 800-171
- NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF)
- CIS Controls
- OWASP Top 10
- OWASP ASVS
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- 10+ years of experience supporting U.S. federal cybersecurity programs and regulatory frameworks.
- Proven experience leading, achieving, and sustaining multiple FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High Authorizations to Operate (ATO) for cloud-native SaaS products.
- Extensive experience working directly with:
- Federal Agencies
- Joint Authorization Board (JAB) stakeholders
- Third Party Assessment Organizations (3
PAOs) - Authorizing Officials
- Government security assessors
- Deep knowledge of:
- NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
- FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring
- POA&M management
- Significant Change Requests
- Annual Assessments
- Vulnerability remediation requirements
- Configuration management controls
- Demonstrated ownership of security strategy and product architecture supporting regulated government cloud environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing environments aligned to:
- CMMC Level 2 requirements
- NIST SP 800-171
- DFARS
- DFARS
- DFARS
- DFARS
- Experience designing and securing solutions deployed within Department of Defense environments requiring Impact Level (IL) authorization.
- Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience supporting:
- DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4)
- DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5)
- DoD Impact Level 6 (IL6)
- Experience working with government customers handling Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), National Security Systems (NSS), and classified or highly regulated workloads.
- Familiarity with DISA STIGs, SRGs, DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG), and associated authorization processes.
- Experience leading or supporting NIAP Common Criteria certification efforts for enterprise software, networking products, endpoint security solutions, or cybersecurity technologies.
- Strong understanding of:
- Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS)
- Protection Profiles
- Security Targets
- Evaluation Assurance Levels (EAL)
- NIAP product certification lifecycle
- Experience working with accredited testing laboratories and certification authorities to achieve and maintain product certifications.
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