Partner 20, Staff Security Technical Program Manager

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic. We invest in seed to venture to growth-stage technology companies, across AI, bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, games, and companies building toward American dynamism. a16z has $100B+ under management across multiple funds.

We've established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the company-building process; we know what it's like to be in the founder's shoes. We've invested in companies like Anduril, Airbnb, Coinbase, Cursor, Databricks, Deel, Figma, GitHub, Roblox, SpaceX, and Stripe. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping founders and their companies impact and change the world.

We're hiring a Staff Security Technical Program Manager to run the operating system of the a16z Security team. You'll own the firm's vulnerability management program, drive cross-team security initiatives to completion, and own the planning rhythm that keeps the team and its stakeholders aligned: sprints, OKRs, timelines, and the documentation and ticketing hygiene that make all of it real.

Security at a16z moves fast and touches every part of the firm. We work in close partnership with teams across the firm. Your job is to keep that work on schedule, keep decisions written down, and make sure nothing gets dropped between teams. Leadership should be able to get the real status from you, and engineers should see you as someone who removes obstacles, not someone who adds process.

This role requires an in-office presence 2 days a week, Tuesday and Thursday, in our San Francisco, CA office, with occasional days in our Menlo Park, CA office.

To join our team, you should be excited to:

• Own security remediation across the firm, end to end: Pull findings from threat models, code reviews, penetration tests, vulnerability management, audits, and incident postmortems into a single tracked backlog, and manage it with clear owners, priorities, remediation SLAs

• Run the vulnerability management program: Scan coverage, patching cadence, exceptions and risk acceptance, and reporting that shows leadership where risk stands

• Work with stakeholders to keep vendor security reviews fast and consistent, and keep requesters informed on where their review stands

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