Sr. Engineering Manager, Product Security

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.

Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with over 2,000 people across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Role: 

We are looking for a Sr. Product Security Engineering Manager with deep technical expertise and hands-on experience to lead our product security function. This role requires a leader who can balance strategic security initiatives with hands-on contributions to secure our software development lifecycle (SDLC). You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, and compliance teams to embed security into our products while mentoring a team of security engineers.

What You’ll Do: 

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and grow the product security team, setting technical direction and priorities.
• Define and implement a scalable security strategy for our products, ensuring security is integrated across the SDLC.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to drive security-by-design principles.
• Advocate for security best practices across the organization.

Hands-On Technical Contributions

• Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and code reviews to identify security risks.
• Implement and enhance security tooling, including SAST, DAST, and SCA solutions.
• Develop secure coding guidelines and train engineers on secure development practices.
• Automate security controls and integrate security testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate and remediate security vulnerabilities in applications and cloud infrastructure.

Incident Response & Compliance

• Partner with incident response teams to analyze and mitigate security incidents affecting products.
• Work with compliance teams to ensure adherence to frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR.
• Monitor and assess emerging security threats, adapting security programs accordingly.

Who You Are:

Required

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong hands-on experience with secure software development, threat modeling, and security architecture reviews.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript).
• Experience with application security testing tools (SAST, DAST, SCA) and DevSecOps automation.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10, secure coding practices, and common attack vectors.
• Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows.

Preferred

• Experience leading security teams in a SaaS environment.
• Contributions to security communities, open-source projects, or security research.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, OSCP, CSSLP, AWS Security).

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.