Senior Manager, Cyber Security Product Manager, AppSec
Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and risk-conscious delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Cyber Security Professionals who are passionate about evaluating cyber capabilities, threat intelligence, and risk management to join our team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving cybersecurity governance, capability maturation, and risk transformation across Capital One.
What You’ll Do:
Strategy & Roadmap: Own the multi-year product roadmap for Application Security ensuring alignment with enterprise risk appetites and the evolving threat landscape.
Engineering Partnership: Act as the primary liaison to Security Engineering Enablement and Architecture to translate security requirements into scalable, fix-first developer workflows.
Vendor & Capability Evaluation: Lead the strategic evaluation of Appsec security tools (e.g., SAST/DAST/SCA), ensuring we maximize ROI and maintain a best-in-class toolset.
AI Transformation: Define the product strategy for AI-application security, including the secure integration of AI agents into the SDLC, prompt engineering guardrails, and automated remediation pipelines.
Stakeholder Management: Evangelize the AppSec mission through Office Hours and community forums; simplifying complex technical risks for executive leadership to drive informed decision-making.
Operational Governance: Establish the governance model for vulnerability disposition (SAST/DAST/OffSec, ensuring clear SLAs, audit trails, and exception workflows that don't hinder velocity.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree
At least 7 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology
At least 6 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities
At least 3 years of application security experience
Preferred Qualifications:
7+ years of experience working on teams and presenting to stakeholders cybersecurity information such as metrics, threat intelligence, controls and/or requirements
3+ years of experience developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards
3+ years of people management experience
2+ years of experience developing or overseeing cybersecurity or technology risk programs
Demonstrated familiarity with industry governance or financial governance processes
Ability to perform security incident analysis and assist with resolution, translating technical findings into clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders
4+ years in Application or Product Security or Software Engineering with an emphasis on AppSec and vulnerability management strategy.
4+ years of experience managing AppSec products in a large-scale enterprise.
2+ years of experience defining standards for AI-augmented development and ethical AI usage.
Professional certifications (CISSP, CISM, OSCP)
2+ years of experience working in cloud-native environments (APIs, Web, Mobile, Containers, IaC, and CI/CD).
Knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and software supply chain security.
Experience with automated DAST and manual Penetration Testing to develop adversarial-based threat prevention roadmaps
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).
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