Red hat Senior Manager - Product Security 

Czechia, Southeast, Brno 

468825926

What you will do

• Oversee the day-to-day management of a global team of managers and individual contributors, both junior and senior-level, who are responsible for unique workstreams supporting secure development at Red Hat.

• Facilitate team-building activities and workshops to strengthen collaboration.

• Facilitate periodic in-person team-building activities as the on-site manager in Brno.

• Ensure team open communications as well as encourage active listening, and constructive feedback within the team.

• Create and drive vision/strategy with staff; responsible for developing and delivering on strategic and business goals for the team. Responsible for developing and maturing appropriate supporting data and metrics.

• Collaborate closely with leadership peers to deliver expected results and contribute to defining the strategy for the team.

• Work closely with peers in different regions to ensure we have one voice across the team.

• Perform one-on-one sync-ups, performance, and coaching sessions with all team members on a weekly basis.

• Act as an agent of change to help mature the organization, adopt and promote the Red Hat culture, and emphasize the focus on customers.

• Hire new people and retain key talent.

• Ensure the team’s work aligns with Red Hat's strategic direction of secure development practices and actively participate in driving milestones and process improvement.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, IT, and development teams, to ensure security is integrated into all stages of the development process.

• Manage scope by taking on new work as business needs evolve and prioritizing appropriately, keenly focusing on resource allocation and work distribution

What you will do

• Experience implementing secure software development practices in an enterprise.

• Demonstrated experience in working in an Agile, project-based environment.

• Comfortable with handling, balancing, and driving multiple priorities, and working under pressure.

• Demonstrable experience with people management, change management, team dynamics, coaching, and conflict resolution skills on a globally distributed engineering team.

• Ability to successfully lead through ambiguity and change.

• Leadership style that is approachable, collaborative, inclusive, and respectful.

• Ability to understand the software development lifecycle and the systems used to build the software.

• Experience facilitating workstreams with engineering teams in demanding environments

• Experience communicating risk-based security requirements to the business versus check-the-box security

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

• Ability to work across multiple time zones to coordinate with global teams.

The following are considered a plus:

• Understanding of open source development models.

• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field or equivalent knowledge from experience.

• Demonstrable experience working in a product security organization and engineering organization.

• Experience in open-source software development lifecycles is preferred.