Atlassian

Head of Product Security

Atlassian$244K — $384K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of security leadership experience in tech companies with global operations.
  • Strong expertise in threat modeling and risk assessment frameworks.
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and HIPAA, and ability to streamline security processes.
  • Proven experience in designing security controls across various domains, including cloud and application security.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills for collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.
  • Capacity to lead complex organization-wide security initiatives autonomously.
  • Ability to maintain expertise in specific security infrastructure disciplines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement security controls in product design.
  • Develop and execute a robust product security strategy aligned with company objectives.
  • Work with product teams to integrate security best practices throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical leadership to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements across infrastructure and IT.
  • Drive the adoption of automation and modern security tools for product security enhancement.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellbeing resources.
  • Paid volunteer days to support community engagement.
  • Flexible work options including office or remote setups.
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship.
  • Diverse range of perks tailored to support employees and their families.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are looking for a Head of Product Security to partner with the broader Trust Organization and all of Atlassian, to shape our security posture, work across product teams, infrastructure organizations and security functions globally in a highly collaborative and engineering-driven environment to improve the security of both our Data Center and Cloud products, our infrastructure and our entire company. We are seeking an experienced and visionary security engineering leader who wants to join a team of highly talented security leaders and professionals who are revolutionizing the delivery of Atlassian platform to the world's most critical organizations in a secure way.

This position requires strong cross-organizational leadership, communication skills, deep technical security knowledge and being very hands-on with product designs, threat modeling, security reviews, vulneability management and end-to-end security controls from a product and system infrasturcture perspective.

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work - whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

Responsibilities

You will be expected to lead the organization that is responsible to:
  • Collaborate with cross functional teams to define various security controls and translate them for engineering implementation for the Atlassian prodiuct teams.
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive product security strategy that aligns with our core strategic objectives, and exceeds the high expectations set by our customers
  • Partner with product development teams to embed security best practices and considerations across the entire development lifecycle, ensuring that new features meet the highest trust standards
  • Collaborate with senior technical leadership across Atlassian infrastructure and IT teams to provide technical leadership to maintain compliance and adhere to different regulatory requirements.
  • Promote automation and drive our corporate teams to use the latest security tools, techniques and methodologies to build secure products by default.


Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Pay Ranges

In The United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $294,300 - $384,225

Zone B: $265,500 - $346,625

Zone C: $244,269 - $318,907

Qualifications

Your background:
  • At least 10+ years of multifaceted security leadership and management experience in a technology-centric company, including experience leading security teams of 0+ engineers and analysts in a globally distributed organization that services dozens of partners.
  • Expertise in threat modeling and the associated frameworks (e.g. STRIDE) coupled with the ability to lead and mentor across the organization on the key principles of threat modeling as well as risk assessment.
  • Understanding of compliance frameworks and their application to standards (e.g. SOC 2, HIPAA). Demonstrated ability to develop a strategic approach to streamline product security processes and capabilities.
  • Experience designing and deploying security controls across all security domains such as access management, data protection, vulnerability management, incident response and management, application security, network security, preventive, detective and offensive security solutions.
  • Experience securing cloud based infrastructures; AWS, G-suite, Salesforce, etc
  • Experience leading highly complex, org wide security change programs
  • Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills including EQ, mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building; ability to influence both internally and externally, and to drive multi-functional alignment and action
  • Experience in planning and driving direction autonomously - both as a hands-on security engineer, and as a leader
  • Maintain an area of core strength in one or more security infrastructure disciplines where you can lead through your expertise
  • Understanding regulatory requirements and controls such as GDPR, SOX , SOC 2, FedRAMP etc.
  • Track-record in working effectively with scaled systems and different methods for maintaining a security posture
  • Comfort in the level and speed of learning and ambiguity needed to navigate fast-evolving fields like AI
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and Development/Engineering individuals at all levels including the executive level


Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits

About Atlassian

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 194,000 customers worldwide, including 85 of the Fortune 100, Atlassian is changing the way teams work. Our products help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Atlassian has a unique business model that allows us to deliver software to teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. Our products are available on a subscription basis, with no upfront fees or long-term commitments. Atlassian was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Atlassian
Size
6,433 employees
Market Cap
$31.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.1 billion
Founded
2002
5 Year Trend
+34.9%
Revenue
$1.8 billion
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