This position can be office-based or fully remote from one of the following countries: Germany, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, or the UK. 

At Personio, your work transforms the way millions of people experience work every day. Join our Product & Technology team, where we drive our customers’ outcomes by designing, developing and delivering innovative and high quality products. Be empowered to take ownership of your areas and make an impact on your team, our product, and our customers. 

You will work with effective, autonomous, cross-functional product-based teams, ensuring the delivery of complex and large-scale technical programs with a significant business impact. To do so, you facilitate the planning and design of projects to tackle our current and future security and compliance needs. This includes identifying technology gaps, creating and managing timelines, and creating a cohesive strategy for the security vertical.

• Technical Program Management: You manage and oversee highly technical programs that often have emphasis in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC); both within the security vertical and horizontally across our PTech (product, engineering, and design) organization to meet objectives in terms of value and quality

• Cross-Team Collaboration: You will work in an environment of cross-team dependencies and drive security-focused engineering initiatives and communicate with all stakeholders and teams 

• Processes: You give guidance to develop and streamline security processes and are involved in translating in-depth technical discussions into actions and initiatives

• Progress: You develop and track progress on OKRs, follow up with teams and stakeholders, and make sure that they are converging toward the roadmap and company goals

• Risks: You assess the risks to the roadmap and act accordingly

• Transparency: You maintain transparency of the Security competency center by making sure the work you are involved in is measurable and reported

• Stakeholder Management: You anticipate and remove roadblocks, and maintain stakeholder management with a mindset of solutions-over-problems

• You have over 5 years of experience working on fast-scaling and complex systems with a background in project/program management in a software development context

• You are experienced working in a company that centers its technologies in a cloud environment (AWS preferred) and have hands-on experience working closely with engineering teams in a large-scale product development organization

• You are able to prioritize, analyze trade-offs and drive initiatives, fetch data for analysis, maximize the utilization of your tools

• You have advanced experience working with Jira and Confluence to manage multi-team programs as well as maintaining program transparency through documentation

• You are good at driving effective communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple teams and departments

• Experience in leading cross-departmental Security Governance Risk and Compliance programs such as ISO 27001 (and related 27017, 27018, 27701), SOC 1/2/3, ISO9001, etc. and/or implementing controls frameworks such as NIST CSF

• Experience with one or more of the following programs: Vulnerability Management, Security Compliance (e.g. ISO27000 family), Incident Response, Corporate IT Security, Secure SDLC, Security Monitoring/SIEM, Cloud Infrastructure Security, Vendor Risk Management

Personio is an equal opportunities employer, committed to building an integrative culture where everyone feels welcomed and supported. We embrace uniqueness and understand that our diverse, values-driven culture makes us stronger. We are proud to have an inclusive workplace environment that will foster your development no matter your gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education level, or race.Aside from our people, culture, and mission, check out some of the other benefits that make Personio a great place to work:

• Receive a competitive reward package – reevaluated each year – that includes salary, benefits, and pre-IPO equity

• Enjoy 28 days of paid vacation, plus an additional day after 2 and 4 years (because we love what we do, but we also love vacation!)

• Make an impact on the environment and society with 2 (fully paid) Impact Days –  one for an individual project of your choice and one for a company-wide initiative

• Receive generous family leave, child support, mental health support, and sabbatical opportunities with PersonioCares

• Find your best way to work with our office-led, remote-friendly PersonioFlex! Most teams offer a roughly 50% remote, 50% in-office working framework

• Invest in your development with an annual personal development budget to use on professional memberships, external certifications, conferences, and more

• Connect with your fellow Personios at regular company and team events like All Company Culture Week and local year-end celebrations

• Engage in a high-impact working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes