Senior Product Manager - Application Security

Location Address: Hybrid –Toronto – 2 days/week

Contract Duration: 1 year

Possibility of extension & conversion to FTE

Role: Application Security Product Manager

Business group: Cloud & Application Security Product and Architecture– HM’s team is a product group within Cloud and Applications Security

Project: Cloud Acceleration Program - moving towards Google Cloud – HM is product owner for entire security application portfolio, this contractor will be the product manager for one of the following AppSec capabilities: SAST, DAST, MAST, SCA. Transformation building of new capabilities for application security; creating materials for VP and above (high visibility role)

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 10+ years’ relevant academic + working experience

2) 3+ years’ experience as a full-stack Product Manager in an Agile environment, with demonstrated experience in creating roadmaps, scoping, and financing

3) 3+ years’ experience with AppSec domains (at least one of these): SAST, SCA, DAST, API Security

4) 3+ years’ experience with documenting process, requirements, and product information

5) 1+ year’ experience building business cases and demonstrating value of a product and cost-benefit analysis

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD Pipeline tools and processes like BitBucket/GitHub, Jfrog Artifactory, Ansible, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo etc

2) Experience with deployment and managing IaaS, PaaS & SaaS solutions

3) 3+ years’ experience in the financial industry or tech/startups

4) Experience with AppSec (preferably one of these): tools Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify, Snyk, Burp Suite etc.

Security certifications like CISSP an asset

Soft Skills Required:

• Excellent presentation skills – as a Product Manager, you will be the spokesperson for your product to the organization at large

• Proficient at creating presentations and comfortable speaking to a large leadership audience.

• Demonstrable communication capability including verbal presentations to senior leadership

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Ideal candidate is very detail oriented, analytical, organized; strong product manager who has worked in a tech company, startups; excellent presentation skills as these Product Managers are presenting to VPs and SVPs; strong agile experience; strong recent AppSec domain experience

Candidate Review & Selection

1 round – in person – Toronto

1 hour – technical interview – with HM – going through experience, potential whiteboarding session/scenario-based question shared live in interview to demonstrate candidate thought process

**Note: HM would like to see a work sample during the interview – a presentation or redacted summary of findings they have created they could share prior to interview (once selected and invited)