Manager, Product Security
Tricentis
About the role
Tricentis is looking for a Manager, Product Security to lead our Application Security and Penetration testing teams. With strong executive support behind our security program, you will directly influence the strategic direction of our product security. This is more than a people management role; you will act as a technical leader and line manager for talented security engineers across Czechia and Austria, balancing professional growth with the delivery of critical security initiatives.
What will you do?
- Lead and mentor your team: manage performance and career development for a distributed team in Czechia and Austria, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous growth.
- Run our security initiatives: Drive the execution of our risk-based security program, making data-informed decisions to prioritize the most impactful security controls.
- Influence technical direction: shape our strategy and roadmap by identifying key risks and aligning security initiatives with business goals.
- Organize the work: prioritize the team's workload, navigating the balance between long-term strategic initiatives, urgent operational tasks, and incident response.
- Stay calm under pressure: Demonstrate resilience and clear technical judgement during security incidents, ensuring effective resolution under time constraints.
- Partner with engineering: work across teams to make security a natural part of how we build software.
- Bring structure: rely on project management skills to break down complex technical work into manageable tasks.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software development, product security, or a related technical field.
- 2+ years people management experience in a fast-paced, high-growth enterprise software environment.
- Demonstrable leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to travel occasionally
Key Competencies
- Risk awareness: Ability to understand technical risks and translate them into actionable business priorities.
- Resilience: A resilient and adaptable nature, comfortable driving decisions in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift.
- Servant leadership: Mindset focused on enabling both your team's success and technical evolution.
- Collaboration: Solid stakeholder management skills, capable of partnering with engineering teams and aligning security goals with business objectives.
- Drive and interest: A strong drive and genuine interest in the security domain. While a previous background in security is a distinct advantage, your technical aptitude, passion, and management capabilities are what matter most.
Tricentis Core Values:
Knowing what we need to achieve and how to achieve it is important. Tricentis' core values define our ways of working and the behaviors we model that create an enjoyable and successful Tricentis life.
- Demonstrate Self-Awareness: Own your strengths and limitations.
- Finish What We Start: Do what we say we are going to do.
- Move Fast: Create momentum and efficiency.
- Run Towards Change: Challenge the status quo
- Serve Our Customers & Communities: Create a positive experience with each interaction.
- Solve Problems Together: We win or lose as one team.
- Think Big & Believe: Set extraordinary goals and believe you can achieve them
You can look forward to:
Flexible working schedule (no core hours)
Learning and career growth opportunities
25 days of paid time off
3 Sick Days
2 days of paid Volunteering Leave per year to get involved in your local community or in a cause that matters to you
Hybrid work environment with home-office allowance
Meal allowance
Pension Contribution
Life & Disability Insurance
Paid Sickness Leave
A team of passionate professionals who are experts in their fields
Events for employees to learn, celebrate, and socialize (training sessions, hackathons, parties, sports events, board game gatherings, BBQs), and much more
About Tricentis
Tricentis is a global leader in continuous testing and quality engineering. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing portfolio of products provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality.
Widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications, Tricentis has been recognized as a leader by all major industry analysts, including Forrester, Gartner, and IDC. We empower innovators to push the boundaries of software testing, fostering a global community of continuous learners who pioneer AI-powered, highly performant, highly secure end-to-end testing tools that accelerate our customers’ time to market including the largest brands in the world.
Tricentis is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, religious affiliation, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or physical and mental disability and other statuses protected by law.
Global Sanctions Compliance
We comply with all applicable global sanctions and export control laws. Candidates must not be listed on any government restricted party lists (including OFAC SDN List and U.S. Commerce Department restricted lists) and must certify that their employment would not violate any sanctions or export control regulations. Candidates must notify us of any changes to their status during the application process or subsequent employment.