VP, Product Security

Security And Thought Leadership

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position provides security and thought leadership for the Early Warning Product Security program including: developing, implementing, and maturing of security on all Early Warning product offerings in order to minimize the possibility of malicious access, attacks, and data breaches. The position employs a high level of technical knowledge in the area of cloud security, DevSecOps, and CI/CD pipelines in order to create secure and scalable financial products. The position reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), but recognizing the network-wide nature of the responsibility, will frequently be involved with product management, product development, product engineering, cloud engineering, 3rd party audits, regulator interaction and customer facing security issues.

Essential Functions

• Leads a high performing team: Provides exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high performance team.
• Creates frictionless paths for engineering teams to securely build and deploy new products.
• Manages the development, deployment and execution of controls and defenses to ensure the security and risk mitigation developed products and digital payment systems.
• Identifies and designs cybersecurity architecture, goals, objectives and performance metrics, including KRI's and KPI's; analyzes business needs and priorities for protection of critical systems.
• Establishes and implements appropriate product security standards for the secure development, operations, and compliance.
• Leverages in depth knowledge of threat modeling, secure software development lifecycle, cloud security, cryptography, authentication, and authorization design patterns.
• Lead cross functional teams to architect, design, and deploy secure cloud services and application architecture.
• Leads purple team certifications for all products to ensure that products are designed with logging and monitoring capabilities adequate for detecting and responding to all potential cybersecurity events. Provides subject matter expertise and support for vulnerability audits and product incident response. Oversees the quality of code analysis, reporting and resolution. Identifies issue trends and drives root cause resolutions.
• Evaluates potential business impacts from security breaches and provides strategic and tactical guidance to business decision-makers. Develops and executes security systems compliance policies and procedures.
• Prevents production vulnerabilities and ensures quick resolution of security testing findings, such as bug bounty, penetration testing, or audit findings.
• Interacts with customers, regulators and auditors on a regular basis.
• Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physical Science
• 13 or more years of relevant work experience and leadership experience in applicable information security roles.
• Experience with various types of information security tools and controls.
• Clear and concise understanding of current security vulnerabilities and attacks.
• Experience evaluating and assigning risk levels to uncovered issues
• Experience with the OWASP Top 10 and other Application Security issues
• Extensive experience with network security design and protection, application development, application security issues, operating system security, hardening standards and protection mechanisms.
• Extensive and diverse experience with the fundamentals of security devices (design and function).
• Ability to articulate the practical and technical application of the following standards: (ISO, PCI, FedRAMP and FISMA)
• Excellent verbal. written skills, and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to support complex organizational relationships.
• Background and drug screen

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of product, architecture, or cloud security experience within the financial sector
• In depth knowledge with public cloud service architectures such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• GCSA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Security
• Certifications: CISSP, GCSA, CISM, CISA or equivalent.

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.

The base pay scale for this position in: Phoenix, AZ/ Chicago, IL / Washington, DC in USD per year is: $289,000 - $372,000. Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits. This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate's education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!

Early Warning Services, LLC ("Early Warning") considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.

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