Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HID is a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, empowering trusted identities for people, places, and things. The Senior Product Vulnerability Manager will own the corporate-wide Product Vulnerability Management program, establishing capabilities to detect and respond to product vulnerabilities while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Responsibilities
- Defining and maintaining the enterprise Product Vulnerability Management framework, including processes for intake, triage, prioritization, remediation tracking, and disclosure
- Establishing standardized vulnerability triage and risk prioritization methodologies that work across the organization
- Defining and implementing the corporate-wide vulnerability management policies and standards ensuring our Product Security Incident Response processes are appropriate with the organization’s expectations and regulatory requirements
- Owning the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) program, including external intake channels, researcher engagement, and coordination
- Translating regulatory requirements (e.g., EU Cyber Resilience Act) into operational processes, controls, and reporting obligations
- Defining and managing the enterprise tooling strategy for vulnerability detection (e.g., SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning), including selection, configuration, and integration into CI/CD pipelines
- Establishing minimum tooling and coverage baselines across product types and ensure consistent adoption
- Defining and operationalize SBOM-driven vulnerability management practices, including monitoring and response to third-party component vulnerabilities
- Developing scalable playbooks, guidance, and decision frameworks enabling product teams to independently triage and respond to vulnerabilities
- Defining training requirements and developing enablement materials for product teams on vulnerability identification, triage, and response processes
- Establishing metrics, reporting, and dashboards to measure vulnerability management effectiveness, including SLA adherence, backlog, and remediation timelines
- Providing executive-level reporting and insights on product vulnerability risk posture
- Defining governance processes, including exception handling, risk acceptance, and escalation pathways
- Leading audit and assessment readiness related to vulnerability management processes and outputs
- Building and leading a small team responsible for program operations, tooling, and disclosure coordination
- Partnering with Product Security Architects, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment and effective execution across the organization
- Acting as the central authority for product vulnerability management practices across the organization
- Enabling a federated operating model where product teams own remediation while adhering to centralized standards and processes
- Driving consistency in vulnerability handling across a large and diverse product portfolio
- Ensuring vulnerability management practices scale effectively across hundreds of products and multiple technology domains
- Providing strategic direction for continuous improvement of vulnerability management capabilities, tooling, and processes
- Supporting regulatory audits and customer inquiries related to vulnerability management and disclosure practices
Skills
- Experience designing, building, or scaling a vulnerability management or PSIRT program within a product security or application security context
- Strong understanding of the vulnerability lifecycle, including detection, triage, prioritization, remediation tracking, and disclosure
- Working knowledge of application security principles and common vulnerability classes (e.g., OWASP Top 10)
- Experience with vulnerability detection tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning) and integration into development pipelines
- Experience defining or applying vulnerability scoring methodologies (e.g., CVSS) in a product context
- Familiarity with Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) processes and external researcher engagement
- Familiarity with regulatory requirements related to product security and vulnerability management, such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)
- Experience working within or supporting Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDL/SSDLC) programs
- Strong ability to define processes, standards, and governance models that scale across large organizations
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact
- Experience operating in large-scale, multi-product environments with distributed engineering teams
- Experience establishing or managing SBOM and software supply chain vulnerability programs
- Experience with vulnerability disclosure programs or bug bounty platforms
- Experience working in regulated industries or environments with strong compliance requirements
- Experience with Agile/SAFe methodologies
- Experience leading or mentoring small, high-impact teams
Benefits
- Competitive salary and rewards package
- Competitive benefits and annual leave offering, allowing for work-life balance
- A vibrant, welcoming & inclusive culture
- Extensive career development opportunities and resources to maximize your potential
- To be a part of a global organization that is pioneering the hardware, software and services that allow people to confidently navigate the physical and digital worlds
- You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.
- We welcome an opportunity to meet you and learn about your unique talents, skills, and experiences.
- We are open to ideas, including flexible work arrangements, job sharing or part-time job seekers.
- We want all our employees to be themselves, to feel appreciated and accepted.
- Flexible working arrangements
- Regular feedback, training, and development opportunities
- Supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities
- We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities.
Company Overview
HID powers the trusted identities of the world's people, places and things. It was founded in 1991, and is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.hidglobal.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
HID has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 17 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 9 in 2023, 25 in 2022, 19 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.