Director of Product Security

The role

You will lead multiple engineering teams to execute product-facing security strategy. This includes member authentication, code security, cloud security, and privacy by design.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and grow multiple engineering teams executing on product-facing security strategy.
• Lead application vulnerability management programs.
• Build, integrate, and mature DevSecOps tooling and developer security controls.
• Define and communicate long-term product security strategy and architecture standards.
• Partner with engineering, office of the CISO, and compliance leadership.
• Establish and enforce best practices for secure software development, testing, and deployment.
• Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development for engineering managers and individual contributors.
• Foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated success scaling a security team whilst crafting clear and efficient team domains.
• Proven experience as a technical leader managing multiple teams or a growing security engineering organization.
• Experience growing high level individual contributor career growth at the staff level or higher.
• Deep understanding of product security principles, including vulnerability management, data privacy, threat modeling, secure SDLC practices, and secure-by-default engineering patterns.
• Experience building or integrating developer security tooling to improve secure-by-default practices.
• Strong technical background in software development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS cloud environments and data-driven decision-making.
• Hands-on experience with containerized microservice environments.
• Background in incident response and post-mortem analysis for security events.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks for vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, or infrastructure security.

Before you apply

• The successful candidate must be prepared to relocate if necessary to work out of the Boston, MA office.
• WHOOP participates in E-verify to determine employment eligibility.

About the company

WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives.