United Air Lines, Inc

Senior Manager - Product Cybersecurity (Remote)

United Air Lines, Inc$130K — $155K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Chicago, IL
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required (STEM field preferred)
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency with OWASP Top 10 and application security testing
  • Knowledge of threat modeling and risk management processes
  • Ability to secure AI/ML products and understand their SDLC
  • Proficiency with DevSecOps technology stacks and web/app security
  • Strong leadership and workforce development skills

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a team of innovative cybersecurity engineers
  • Define and prioritize resources for work assignments and projects
  • Monitor compliance legislation and proactively update standards
  • Coordinate remediation of non-compliance issues to meet standards
  • Assist in annual budgeting and monthly financial forecasting

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and talent growth
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Engagement in cutting-edge cybersecurity projects
  • Participation in strategic workforce transformation initiatives
  • Access to advanced security tools and technologies
Full Job Description
Description

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The Senior Manager - Product Cybersecurity is a technical leader responsible for managing a team of highly innovative cybersecurity engineers responsible for developing and maintaining end-to-end security architecture of United's product(s)/application(s)/service(s). This person will create and implement a vision for security across all products within the United portfolio.

  • Responsible for recruiting and talent development of team, including personnel management
  • Define, prioritize, allocate resources, track, and provide status reporting of work assignments, projects, and programs
  • Monitors changes in legislation and compliance standards that affect assigned areas of responsibility and proactively acts to update standards, best practices and architectures based on this information
  • Coordinates remediation of non-compliant items to meet applicable compliance standards and best practices
  • Assist with annual budgeting and monthly forecasting


Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree required (STEM field preferred)
  • At least 5 years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency with OWASP Top 10
  • Proficient knowledge of threat modeling
  • Proficient knowledge of risk management processes
  • Ability to secure AI, ML, or LLM products or familiarity with SDLC for AI, ML, or LLMs
  • Proficiency with application testing (e.g., SAST, DAST, MAST, RAST, IAST, Pen Test tooling)
  • Proficiency with programming languages and modern programming language structure (i.e., Object Oriented Programming, web framework)
  • Proficient with DevSecOps technology stacks (i.e., AWS, Harness, TeamCity, GitHub, Artifactory, CHEF, CloudWatch)
  • Proficiency with SDLC process
  • Proficiency with web and app security stack (e.g., API security)
  • Proven ability to lead people
  • Able to build and execute a workforce transformation strategy that develops the team's capabilities in AI-assisted security engineering, frontier-model application security testing, secure AIDLC, and agentic automation
  • Ability to manage business and external partners
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, interpersonal, collaboration, written and verbal communication skills
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
  • Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position


What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Master's degree
  • One or more of the following: CEH, GSEC, CISM, Security +, CISSP, CISA, SSCP, CASP, OSCP, AWS Solution Architect Pro., Networking, and Security Specializations
  • 10+ years of relative experience
  • Strong subject matter expertise in the fields of IT security and risk management
  • Experience with technical documentation / SOP creation
  • Proficient understanding of compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53) and processes
  • Demonstrated experience applying security and risk-management practices to AI/ML or generative AI systems, including secure AI lifecycle reviews, AI threat modeling, adversarial testing and component supply-chain risk and runtime guardrails
  • Demonstrated experience implementing or governing frontier-model-enabled application security testing, including context-aware code analysis, vulnerability discovery, exploitability validation, remediation generation, threat-model-informed testing. Experience must include human validation, secure execution environments, model and prompt governance, quality measurement and integration with developer and CI/CD workflows
  • Strong knowledge of IT infrastructure security best practices, procedures, and standards
  • Experience with cloud native products and in-depth understanding microservice topologies and implementations
  • Expertise in application development and dev-ops security technologies and integration
  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
  • Experience within the transformation of traditional data center security measures into industry adopted cloud technologies
  • Proven ability to work with compliance frameworks and requirements
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and Agile development environment
  • Ability to perform manual security code reviews
  • Ability to interpret dynamic/static analysis tools, and penetration test results
  • Proficient knowledge of cloud technologies and security
  • Proficiency with vulnerability management processes and providing remediation guidance
  • Proficiency in cryptography
  • Proficient understanding of IAM (i.e., authentication and authorization)
  • Proficient understanding of networks and network security


Job Post Expiration: 10/1/2026

About United Air Lines, Inc

United Airlines is a major American airline that operates a large domestic and international route network. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance. United Airlines operates a fleet of over 800 aircraft and serves more than 350 destinations in over 50 countries.
Learn more about United Air Lines, Inc
Size
87,400 employees
Market Cap
$12.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 billion
Founded
1926
5 Year Trend
-7.6%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
NASDAQ

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