Director of Product Security

Director of Product Security

Location: Mountain View, CA (on-site) Reports to: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Department: Security - Product Security

About the Role

ID.me runs one of the most heavily scrutinized identity platforms in the world, and our engineers ship

fast. Product Security is how we keep that speed safe. We're looking for a leader who believes

security is practical and outcome-driven; every control we ask for reduces real risk, and our job

isn't done when we file a ticket; it's done when the risk is actually gone.

This is a leadership role first. You'll own the Product Security program end-to-end, lead and grow the

team, and be the trusted security partner to Engineering and not its gatekeeper.

What You'll Own

● The Product Security (ProdSec) program: threat modeling, secure code and architecture

review, SCA, secret scanning, vulnerability management, CSPM and configuration

management; integrated across the SSDLC as scalable, shift-left, developer-aligned

controls.

● People leadership: build, grow, and lead a team of security engineers. You are accountable

for their development, growth, and professional well-being; not just their output.

● The rules of the road: define what is and isn't acceptable security practice for Engineering

clearly, with the why, so teams can self-serve instead of waiting on you.

● Secure-by-design consulting: partner with Product and Engineering early at design and

architecture time so security is built in before code ships, not bolted on after.

● Security tooling & services: the team builds and maintains tools and services that let

engineers ship secure products at high velocity; adopted because they help rather than gate.

● Penetration Testing & Red Team: you're accountable for the execution and outcomes;

scope, findings, and remediation.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

Outcome-based leadership. You translate business objectives into clear outcomes and keep the

team focused on them. You set the requirements and constraints, guide the how without dictating it,

and trust your team to own execution. You know what good looks like and reach it efficiently; the

right-sized solution, delivered without micromanagement.

Accountability for results. You measure success by whether risk actually went down and whether

engineers can do their jobs safely; not by how many findings you produced. You drive fixes to

closure, even when another team owns the code.

Partnership with Engineering. Engineering is your customer. You default to "how do we make this

work safely?" and when you must say no, you explain it in terms they value and offer a path. You

assert security and compliance requirements; you don't dictate product decisions.

Speed and judgment. Assessments turn around in days, not weeks. You right-size rigor to the

decision in front of you and avoid security theater.

Technical depth. You move fluently across threat modeling, code and architecture review,

SCA/SAST, secret scanning, vuln management, and cloud/CSPM — enough to earn engineers'

respect and coach your team.

Integrity and trust. You handle privileged access with discretion, and you build a team where

sharing bad news early is safe and rewarded.

AI fluency. Our security org runs on AI daily (Claude, Gemini, custom tooling). You treat AI as a

force multiplier and champion AI-augmented security workflows.

Strong Preference

● Built or matured an Application Security, Security Engineering, or Product Security program

in a fast-shipping, cloud-native environment like ours: GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes/GKE,

Apigee, Terraform, and modern CI/CD

● Hands-on with security tooling such as Socket.dev, Sysdig, Trivy, DependencyTrack, or

HackerOne

● AI-augmented security workflows with Claude, Gemini, or Vertex AI

● Growth-stage experience where you had to build, not just maintain

About the Environment

● AI-first. The CISO's goal: make it safe for everyone to use every feature of any

company-provisioned AI tool for any task. You'll help make that real.

● Practical over procedural. We prefer technical enforcement over policy documents, and

real risk reduction over checkbox compliance.

● One team. Security at ID.me operates as a single organization — ProdSec, SecOps, GRC,

IT, and Physical Security collaborate daily. We value leaders who build cross-functional trust

and operate transparently

The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role.

ID.me offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit.

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors.

Mountain View, CA Pay Range

$243,699—$271,644 USD