Director of Product Security, Datasite
$124.3-215.6k
SaaS provider for the M&A industry
Open for applications
SaaS provider for the M&A industry
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$124.3-215.6k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower the dealmaking community to work smarter and faster.
Role
Who you are
- Successful candidates in this role possess product development knowledge, technical skills, and business acumen
- Individual must be able to effectively communicate complex topics
- Preferably 2-plus years in a team lead, manager or similar leadership role in cybersecurity or application security
- Understanding of OWASP, CVSS, the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Experience with the software development lifecycle (SLDC) and product development lifecycle and process
- Ability to obtain and maintain technical team and business support to influence a collaborative effort to reduce attack surface while performing rapid, continuous implementation
- Demonstrated technical prowess, along with proven experience leading high-performing cybersecurity or development teams
- Proficient in application security, secure coding, APIs (Application Programming Interface), vulnerability management, threat modeling and risk management
- Well-versed with application security tools, public cloud providers, CI/CD platforms, and container services
- Experience managing internally developed, commercial, and third-party tools
- Exemplary communication and leadership skills
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in computer science, information assurance, engineering, or related field. Graduate business school degree highly desired
- 5-plus years with a combination of one or more in cybersecurity, application security or engineering
- Desirable, one or more certifications (GWAPT, GWEB, GCSA, CISSP, CSSLP, CISM, CRISC.)
What the job involves
- The Director Product Security provides leadership and influences cybersecurity strategy across the product portfolio
- The Director is responsible for helping secure Datasite products end to end, on time, and within budget
- Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer but embedded in the Datasite Product Organization, the Director works closely with software development, product owners, and engineering
- The Director provides a holistic focus across infrastructure, application security, vulnerability management and third-party partnerships and dependencies
- Additionally, the director instills a secure-by-design and security-first mission to ensure Datasite products are less vulnerable
- The director works in lockstep with Security and Technology leadership and is united in a common goal of building functional, reliable, and secure products
- The Director Product Security has a highly visible role interfacing across multiple organizational units and business concerns
- The individual constantly assesses products for weaknesses and recommends ways to resolve them before they are exploited
- When security findings are discovered, the director proactively communicates with technical and business leadership teams to ensure a focus on risk mitigation
- Lead team of product engineers with product and application security reviews
- The Director understands how attackers think and their motives, while understanding corporate business objectives
- Provide leadership and direction with security practices and methodologies in product security
- Elevate team performance to keep pace with product iterations and ensure they are secure
- Offer hands-on security and design support as needed across the product ecosystem
- Develop a short- and long-term security design roadmap to improve processes and agility
- Remove friction from complex manual processes through automation and outsourcing
- Promote a positive security culture focused on collaboration and creating strong relationships
- Adopt cybersecurity development frameworks, define/maintain policies and standards, and enforce them across all teams
- Attend and participate in product meetings for security requirements with new and existing products
- Develop partnerships aimed at improving product security practices and reducing cost
- Serve as a central point of contact for product cybersecurity requirements, initiatives, and escalations
- Participates in Datasite’s Privacy Information Management System (PIMS) committee
- Enforce security standards and implementation configurations, as well as common security frameworks
- Collaborate with security, IT, and product leadership across a suite of product features and capabilities
- Communicate and recommend changes to the product ecosystem designed to mitigate security issues
- Uphold product cybersecurity principles to meet compliance, privacy laws, and regulatory requirements
- Perform other duties as assigned
Our take
As M&A deals continue to increase in both size and frequency, key stakeholders have been actively seeking tools to streamline their work. Datasite emerges as a solution. Having transitioned from its original focus on communications, the company now offers a suite of SaaS products tailored for M&A professionals, serving approximately 75% of the leading legal firms in the field.
Benefiting from its extensive experience in the industry, Datasite has successfully transformed into a more contemporary business entity. It has recently introduced highly acclaimed AI-powered technology to assist in deal preparation, asset marketing, and facilitating buy-side acquisitions.
With significant global expansion and strategic acquisitions, Datasite remains committed to enhancing its platform capabilities. Notably, in March 2023, it unveiled Datasite Cloud, specifically designed to streamline every aspect of the dealmaking process within a unified platform.
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Company benefits
- Culture and benefits built around work-life balance
- Extensive resources to support physical and mental health
- Employee assistance program
- Generous retirement plans
- Incentives for referring new colleagues
- Learning, training and mentoring programs
- Cross-functional projects
- Stretch assignments to help you progress
- Receive feedback and earn bonuses from peers & managers
- Employee bonding activities
- ESG and charitable team initiatives
Company HQ
Downtown West, Minneapolis, MN
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Leadership
Rusty Wiley
(President & CEO, not founder)Before joining Datasite, Rusty held various executive roles at IBM Corporation, most recently, as General Manager, Banking & Financial Markets. Upon joining Datasite in 2014, Rusty led the successful transformation from a communications and print-related business into a global M&A SaaS technology company.
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