Director, Product Security Architecture

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role We are seeking a Director, Product Security Architecture to lead our Security Architecture function within the Security Platforms & Architecture (SPA) sub-department and to serve as a strategic security partner to key product and engineering leadership groups across GitLab. In this role, you will manage and grow a team of Product Security Architects and our closely-aligned risk and metrics engineer who are each dedicated to major product areas of Security, AI, and Core DevOps. Your team will focus on turning product security risks, requirements, and insights into clear architectural guidance, "paved roads," and multi-quarter risk reduction programs that align with how Product and Engineering actually plan and deliver. You will operate in an environment where feature delivery and platform capabilities are accelerating, architectures and technologies are evolving, and teams are continually balancing ambitious product goals with a strong security posture. In this context, you will help Product Security: • Maximize risk reduction by identifying strategic opportunities that fit naturally into existing R&D work • Ensure that material product security risks and tradeoffs are surfaced, acknowledged, and decided at the right leadership levels • Lead SPA/AppSec scaling strategies that increase coverage and support non-linear developer gains, with a clear focus on enabling developer velocity with minimal friction While many strong candidates will come from a deep product security background, this role is also an excellent fit for experienced software or architecture leaders who have consistently delivered secure, resilient systems in complex R&D environments and are excited to lead security outcomes in close partnership with engineering. What you'll do • Lead, develop, and mentor a team of Product Security Architects and closely-aligned specialists who are dedicated to major product functional areas (e.g., Sec Section, AI, Core DevOps) • Own and continuously evolve the Product Security Architecture strategy and partnership model, shifting architects from embedded consultants to accelerators of secure architecture delivery, and serve as a strategic partner to Product and Engineering Directors/VPs • Oversee and mature the Product Security Risk Register, ensuring systemic product security risks are clearly articulated, prioritized with Product and Engineering, and paired with multi-quarter risk reduction plans that reduce long-term product security debt. • Operate Product Security Architecture in a risk-aligned, business-enabling way that focuses Security Architects on the highest-impact, hardest-to-change architectural decisions, helping teams make clear, informed tradeoffs without slowing delivery. • Define and drive security visions, standards, "paved roads," and secure-by-default platform behaviors and configurations that enable product teams to make sound security decisions with minimal overhead, including evolving existing behaviors over time to strengthen the baseline security posture. • Lead the Product Security AI strategy for scaling, including adoption of AI-assisted and platform-level investments that expand security review coverage, reduce toil, and support non-linear developer gains while enabling developer velocity. • Partner with Application Security, Infrastructure Security, Security Research, Security Operations, Security Risk, and Security Compliance on end-to-end risk reduction, including security-related controls, quality standards, and integration of research and operational learnings into architectures. • Define and track