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Q2 · 4 days ago

Sr. Director, Product Security

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

12+ years exp

Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Director of Product Security to lead and scale their product security capabilities. This role involves collaborating with Product and Engineering leadership to ensure product resilience against security threats and overseeing security standards for AI systems.

Financial ServicesFinTech

No H1B

Responsibilities

Define and translate security requirements into practical, scalable engineering or product roadmap guidance amongst our Digital Banking products and services

Champion Embedded security-by-design into product architecture, secure coding practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native platforms

Partner with engineering leadership to drive DevSecOps adoption and measurable security outcomes

Own and mature the Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) function

Lead vulnerability intake, triage, remediation, and coordinated disclosure processes

Working with infrastructure, evolve emergency patch/config release process

Drive post-incident learning through root-cause analysis and systemic improvements

Partner with Legal, Communications, and Customer teams during high-impact security events

Ensure products are resilient against business logic abuse, misuse, fraud, and adversarial behavior

Lead threat modeling for new products, features, and AI-enabled capabilities

Collaborate with Fraud, Risk, and Trust teams to address cross-functional threats

Champion secure architecture reviews at design and pre-launch phases

Partner with architecture to oversee security standards and defense response program for AI and agentic AI systems

Ensure secure model development, deployment, and inference pipelines

Address AI-specific risks including: Prompt injection and jailbreaks, Training data poisoning and leakage, Model extraction and inversion, Agent autonomy, identity, and privilege boundaries

Lead AI red-teaming and adversarial testing efforts

Align AI security practices with emerging regulatory and risk frameworks

Provide oversight and technical leadership across: Application Security, SOC and detection engineering, Red, blue, and purple team programs, Penetration testing and continuous assurance

Ensure logging, monitoring, and telemetry are fully integrated into engineering workflows

Drive automation and scalability across security operations

Qualification

Product Security LeadershipDevSecOpsAI Security GovernanceVulnerability ManagementCloud ArchitectureCyber SecurityRegulatory ComplianceCISSP CertificationCISM CertificationCommunicationTeam LeadershipCross-Functional Collaboration

Required

Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or Computer Science and a minimum of 15 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 12+ years of experience; or equivalent relevant work experience

Typically requires 7+ years managing and developing employees

Experience in scaling software engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure engineering teams in a high available environment

Familiarity with regulatory expectations and audits related to security and risk

Proven ability to lead senior technical teams and cross-functional initiatives

Strong communication skills across engineers, executives, auditors, regulators, and customers

Experience influencing outcomes in matrixed organizations

This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English

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