Principal Security Portfolio TPM

The Opportunity

The Adobe Security organization seeks a proactive force multiplier with experience skillfully leading multiple technical programs, running a healthy portfolio, working directly with leadership, and delighting collaborators.  

Our ideal candidate has superb communication and relationship-building skills and a solid track record of driving business outcomes through managing large programs. The candidate is experienced in working with the security architecture team to enable paved roads for product teams with built-in security capabilities. In addition, being familiar with application security, incident response, and related security tooling, especially the SIEM solution.

If you excel at navigating complexity with multiple internal customers, are a master planner who helps teams foresee challenges and risks and guides teams through them, and are equipped with a diverse technical program management toolbox, we can’t wait for you to join our Security PMO team!  

What you'll do

• Partner directly with security architecture leadership to build a portfolio of key programs. Lead and monitor the health and execution of several key initiatives with insights into status, risks, dependencies, roadblocks, and budget across the organization’s program portfolio.
• Ensure healthy program portfolios in Adobe’s security architecture with a clearly defined multi-year roadmap and smooth operations within the architecture space.
• Bring together cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes for high-priority programs through detailed planning, execution, partnership, and communication. It can be in any security domain, enabling long-term architectural vision.
• Reduce program risk by proactively identifying, communicating, and removing roadblocks.
• Build trust through visibility. Provide accurate and timely data-driven status reports for a broad audience and lead executive governance meetings.
• Efficiently coordinate program financials, including crafting detailed and timely financial forecasts.
• Mentor engineering and operations teams to meet the Agile standard processes and Jira usage guidelines

What you need to succeed

• Exceptional communication skills for effective engagement with engineers and executives in meetings, presentations, and writing.  Excel at building strong and trusted partner relationships.  
• 10+ years as a program manager in the security domain with portfolio-level oversight experience. Demonstrate strong knowledge in the architecture field and have worked closely with the architecture group to develop the strategic direction of security.
• Established history of effectively managing programs from inception, prioritizing, and strategizing to implementation, reporting, and successful delivery of intricate projects with many significant internal customers.
• Knowledgeable about cyber defense operations, incident management, and SIEM solutions. Familiarity with other supporting tools, such as threat intelligence tools, is nice to have
• Basic financial competence to support program budget forecasting, tracking, and variance analysis.  
• Demonstrated Agile practice experience in software projects and familiarity with Jira (including query and dashboarding), O365 Suite, MS Teams, SharePoint, MS Project, Excel, and Miro or equivalent experience
• Preferred Certifications: CISSP, CISM, PMP, or equivalent credentials demonstrating expertise in cybersecurity, and program leadership.