Vice President, Product Security
Qualys
- Location
- Virginia
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- Posted
- Sep 9, 2026
Skills
About this role
Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!
Qualifications
Leadership & Executive Management 1 2 + years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, application security, product security, cloud security, or security architecture, including 7 + years in senior leadership roles managing globally distributed security, engineering, and architecture teams. Proven experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing Product Security organizations supporting large-scale SaaS, cloud-native, and enterprise software platforms. Demonstrated success leading directors, senior managers, architects, and security engineering teams across multiple geographies and product portfolios. Experience owning multi-million-dollar security budgets, strategic planning processes, headcount forecasting, vendor relationships, and security program execution. Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate technical risk, business impact, and security strategy to Boards of Directors, Executive Leadership Teams, auditors, regulators, and customer executives. Proven ability to influence security and product roadmaps across Engineering, Product Management, Cloud Operations, Legal, Compliance, Customer Success, Sales Engineering, and Corporate Security organizations. Experience participating in M&A due diligence, product security assessments, and post-acquisition security integration activities is highly desirable. Product Security & Secure Engineering Deep expertise in product security, application security, cloud security, DevSecOps , software supply chain security, and secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices. Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling: Security-by-design principles Threat modeling frameworks Secure coding standards Vulnerability management programs Red teaming exercises Bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs Software supply chain security controls SBOM management Secure CI/CD pipelines Container and Kubernetes security Extensive knowledge of modern authentication and identity architectures including: Zero Trust OAuth2 OpenID Connect SAML PKI Hardware-backed cryptography Secrets management PAM solutions Deep understanding of modern security frameworks including: NIST Cybersecurity Framework NIST SP 800-53 NIST SP 800-171 NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF) CIS Controls OWASP Top 10 OWASP ASVS SOC 2 ISO 27001 Federal Compliance & Government Security Experience FedRAMP 10+ years of experience supporting U.S. federal cybersecurity programs and regulatory frameworks. Proven experience leading, achieving, and sustaining multiple FedRAMP Moderate and FedRAMP High Authorizations to Operate (ATO) for cloud-native SaaS products. Extensive experience working directly with: Federal Agencies Joint Authorization Board (JAB) stakeholders Third Party Assessment Organizations (3PAOs) Authorizing Officials Government security assessors Deep knowledge of: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring POA&M management Significant Change Requests Annual Assessments Vulnerability remediation requirements Configuration management controls Demonstrated ownership of security strategy and product architecture supporting regulated government cloud environments. CMMC & DoD Cloud Requirements Hands-on experience implementing and managing environments aligned to: CMMC Level 2 requirements NIST SP 800-171 DFARS 252.204-7012 DFARS 252.204-7019 DFARS 252.204-7020 DFARS 252.204-7021 Experience designing and securing solutions deployed within Department of Defense environments requiring Impact Level (IL) authorization. Demonstrated knowledge and practical experience supporting: DoD Impact Level 4 (IL4) DoD Impact Level 5