Principal Product Security Architect / Security Assessment Lead

Hello,

I wanted to share a Principal-level Product Security opportunity with a leading technology organization. The position offers ownership of complex security assessment initiatives, executive-level engagement, and influence over product cybersecurity strategy. Let me know if you're open to learning more.

Please respond with your resume if you would like to apply for this position.

Travel Requirement

The candidate will be required to travel to the client's Tweksbury site for up to 6 weeks during the course of the engagement. All travel and accomodation expenses will be arranged and covered by the client. Th etravel may be scheduled as a single visit or split across multiple visits based on the project requirements.

Key Requirements

• Lead enterprise-scale product security review engagements, driving architecture assessment activities, governance, stakeholder coordination, and delivery oversight.
• Deep expertise across secure product engineering, security-by-design methodologies, lifecycle risk management, and control effectiveness evaluation.
• Strong background performing architecture reviews, attack surface analysis, threat modeling exercises, data-flow assessments, and security boundary evaluations.
• Experience interpreting cybersecurity regulatory requirements and translating them into practical assessment, readiness, and compliance strategies.
• Knowledge of product security operations including vulnerability response, disclosure programs, update governance, incident readiness, and long-term support considerations.
• Ability to communicate complex technical risk to executive audiences, facilitate workshops, drive remediation discussions, and influence strategic decisions.
• Familiarity with modern secure development practices, software supply-chain considerations, security assurance frameworks, and risk-based validation approaches.
• Experience within connected products, embedded systems, regulated technology environments, IoT ecosystems, or similar security-critical platforms.

Additional Criteria

• 12+ years in cybersecurity, product security architecture, or related leadership roles.
• Prior ownership of complex customer-facing assessment or assurance engagements.
• Exposure to standards/frameworks such as NIST-based secure development practices, industrial security, or comparable cybersecurity programs.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams and managing executive-level reporting.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for onsite engagement activities.