Senior Manager, Security

About the Job:

Responsibilities:

• Manage the portfolio of your team's work, appropriately managing everyone's time and assigning them to the highest priority work.
• Help your team and the engineering organization make sense of, and simplify, how security work gets done: who owns what, what is automated, and what Security stops doing.
• Guide product engineering teams in owning their own security health: findings route to them with mapped severity, Security reviews and validates rather than fixes, and each team sees its security health in its own service review.
• Own the wiring and routing of security findings and requests, driving down noise and the human-decision rate across intake, triage, and review.
• Serve as incident manager of record for security incidents: first escalation for our service-level commitments, delegated approver for vendor and access decisions, and cover for the Director's operational duties.
• Publish posture: monthly service-level attainment to engineering, quarterly posture to the executive team, and a risk register that drives priorities.
• You have led a security team out of the gatekeeper model once already, and you can say what teams owned afterward, what Security stopped doing, and what the numbers did.
• You think in risk, not control lists, and you would rather defend a priority call than a checklist.
• You treat automation and AI as the first responder and yourself as the escalation path.
• You have been the second leader to a director or CISO and know which decisions to make in their name.
• You have run security incidents end to end, including the comms and the review afterward.
• You were a strong Senior or Staff security engineer before you managed, and you can still read a PR, a threat model, or a cloud finding and make a call.
• You track and drive metrics, and you understand what they can and can't tell you.

About You:

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in a formal security or engineering management role, including managing senior engineers.
• Experience moving a security function from gatekeeper to team ownership, with measurable results.
• Experience as incident manager for security incidents at a SaaS company, including external communication.
• Experience guiding teams through technical tradeoffs and developing senior engineers' careers.
• The ability to track and drive metrics, and the wisdom to understand what they can and can't tell you.
• Familiarity with AWS security at scale and with external audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP) as a participant or control owner.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A thoughtful, empathetic approach to leadership and collaboration.
• Pay:
• Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level M3:
• Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $240,600 - 330,700
• Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $216,500 - 297,600
• Zone 3: All other US locations - $ 204,500 - 281,100
• All Zones Inclusive of 15% Bonus Target
• LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
• Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
• Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas.
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
• You have led a security team out of the gatekeeper model once already, and you can say what teams owned afterward, what Security stopped doing, and what the numbers did.
• You think in risk, not control lists, and you would rather defend a priority call than a checklist.
• You treat automation and AI as the first responder and yourself as the escalation path.
• You have been the second leader to a director or CISO and know which decisions to make in their name.
• You have run security incidents end to end, including the comms and the review afterward.
• You were a strong Senior or Staff security engineer before you managed, and you can still read a PR, a threat model, or a cloud finding and make a call.
• You track and drive metrics, and you understand what they can and can't tell you.

About LaunchDarkly:

Preferred Qualifications

• All Zones Inclusive of 15% Bonus Target