Engineering Manager, Enterprise Security

ROLE OVERVIEW

As an engineering manager leading Enterprise Security, you will be responsible for growing and maintaining our Enterprise Security Program. Your team's focus is on protecting the organization's corporate assets and employees by developing and implementing security strategies and protocols. As an entry-level manager, you will work closely with senior security leadership to demonstrate compliance with regulations, customer requirements and manage security risks across the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of security engineers and compliance analysts who are focused on building and monitoring security controls across our enterprise.
• With the help of your team members, iterating on best practices for building secure and compliant systems
• Work across the organization to build relationships with other teams. Use their feedback and understand their goals to build and prioritize a roadmap for your org
• Create and evolve sustainable processes and tools for operations through automation, self-service and reducing complexity
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Create plans for prioritizing technical and resourcing challenges in your organization
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the teams' systems and processes
• Work closely with the recruiting team to hire high potential candidates from diverse backgrounds
• Partner with security leadership on the security strategy, goals and long term roadmap
• Translate strategy into execution by developing and executing quarterly roadmaps with clear goals
• Develop organizational culture, processes and tools around horizontal initiatives and operational work management
• Identify opportunities to streamline interfaces and collaborations within and outside of security
• Make Benchling a great place to work by actively supporting career development, growth, and mentoring of individuals, and by fostering a fun and inclusive team where everyone feels welcome
• Partnering with our business partners on security and privacy initiatives, leading security design reviews, and threat modeling.
• Researching new risks to the enterprise and identifying potential solutions

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of managing engineering teams in security or 6+ years as an individual contributor in security.
• Strong communicator with both words and data - you have experience communicating to a wide variety of stakeholders under varying conditions
• Technical innovation skills (you enjoy finding technical solutions, learning new technology, evangelizing security and privacy)
• Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessment processes
• Experience with security compliance programs including SOC 2 and ISO27001 
• Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
• Ability to engage and partner with leaders across the organization in cross-functional roles
• Technical depth and experience in leading significant initiatives in either a IC or EM role
• Knowledge of operating system security including both macOS and windows
• Familiarity with: Identify and Access Management, Authentication & Authorization, Mobile Device Management, Endpoint management, and Corporate systems configuration
• Comfortable with complexity in the short term but can build towards simplicity in the long term

SALARY RANGE

Benchling takes a market-based approach to pay. The candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and work location. For this role the base salary range is $ 208,250 - $281,750. 

To help you determine which zone applies to your location, please see this resource. If you have questions regarding a specific location's zone designation, please contact a recruiter for additional information.

Total Compensation includes the following:

• Competitive salary and equity
• Broad range of medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and their dependents
• Fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits
• Four months of fully paid parental leave
• 401(k) + Employer Match
• Commuter benefits for in-office employees and a generous home office set up stipend for remote employees
• Mental health benefits, including therapy and coaching, for employees and their dependents
• Monthly Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Generous and flexible vacation
• Company-wide Summer & Winter holiday shutdown
• Sabbaticals for 5-year and 10-year anniversaries

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