Product Security Senior Manager at Booz Allen in Washington, DC

Job description

Product Security Senior Manager The Opportunity: Grow and develop Booz Allen’s Product Security practice, part of the Commercial Team. Help define the Product Security team’s direction, standards, and requirements for services and solutions sold to Booz Allen Commercial customers. As part of this role, you will collaborate with key stakeholders from the market and sales teams to help drive the sales process. In addition to helping to enable business development, you will also be helping to deliver across client projects where you will lead the implementation, testing, hardening, and maturing of product security programs. You will be responsible for conducting interviews with business and technology leaders, developing strategies, conducting testing, performing and advising on hardening tasks, and presenting findings. You will educate and influence client software and product engineering teams on cybersecurity best practices. Assist clients in establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) relevant to their product and market goals around cybersecurity assurance. Work proactively with leaders across all levels to design, implement, and support solutions that ensure clients have a secure-by-design and best practice approach across the full product development life cycle. You will also lead, hire, and inspire teams of Product Security Engineers and Architects to perform security posture assessments of development and operational systems, provide recommendations and remediation plans, and implement tools, technologies, and processes that enhance the security of applications and products. Join us. The world can't wait. You Have: 10+ years of experience leading teams in Product Security 5+ years of experience with application or product development and developing, architecting, and implementing software security solutions 3+ years of experience working on securing embedded systems, physical products, or hardware environments 1+ years of experience with reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra or IDA Pro Experience with managing across SDLC, including vulnerability management considerations and modern development tools and frameworks Experience developing and securing software with code scanning tools and CI/CD pipelines and the integration of common products and solutions into production environments Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities and prevention techniques and technology, security, risk, and compliance best practices Ability to travel up to 30% of the time Bachelor's degree Nice If You Have: Experience designing and implementing anti-tampering protections for products Experience with fuzzing, product or firmware penetration testing, and hardening Experience with Frontier AI models, agentic development, and utilizing AI in a product or application Knowledge of reverse engineering and penetration testing techniques Knowledge of common security frameworks, including OWASP and NIST Ability to create collaborative relationships with colleagues and influence without authority Compensation At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page. Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but