The posting
Jama Software® is focused on maximizing innovation success in multidisciplinary engineering organizations. Numerous firsts for humanity in fields such as fuel cells, electrification, space, software-defined vehicles, surgical robotics, and more all rely on Jama Connect® requirements management software to minimize the risk of defects, rework, cost overruns, and recalls. Using Jama Connect, engineering organizations can now intelligently manage the development process by leveraging Live Traceability™ across best-of-breed tools to measurably improve outcomes. Additionally, customers have access to cutting edge AI functionality to modernize their requirements workflows and processes. Our rapidly growing customer base spans the automotive, medical device, life sciences, semiconductor, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics, financial services, and insurance industries.
The Manager of Information Security leads Jama Software’s Information Security function and is responsible for ensuring the company’s security work is both strategically sound and operationally well-managed. This role requires a leader who can understand security best practices, interpret technical security information, assess risk, and make informed recommendations while also driving day-to-day execution across areas such as vulnerability management, incident response, security reviews, policy governance, and compliance readiness. The person in this role is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy: identifying what needs attention, prioritizing the work, coordinating with the right stakeholders, communicating clearly, escalating blockers, and ensuring commitments are followed through to completion. They serve as a trusted security partner to Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, customer-facing teams, and senior leadership, translating complex security issues into practical business guidance and helping Jama maintain a mature, responsive, and reliable security posture.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the Information Security function, ensuring security programs are strategically aligned with business needs and operationally managed with clear owners, priorities, timelines, and follow-through.
- Own the day-to-day execution of core security programs, including vulnerability management, incident response, security risk assessment, policy governance, compliance readiness, and security reviews.
- Maintain clear visibility into active security issues, open findings, remediation plans, accountable owners, target dates, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- Lead timely security incident response, including initial triage, SIRT coordination, investigation, mitigation, stakeholder communication, documentation, and post-incident follow-up.
- Drive follow-up on penetration tests, security assessments, audits, customer findings, and other security reviews by identifying material risks, assigning owners, tracking remediation, and escalating blockers.
- Interpret technical security findings and translate them into clear risk assessments, recommendations, and action plans for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Develop, maintain, and operationalize security policies, standards, procedures, and guidance to support compliance obligations, customer expectations, and business priorities.
- Ensure security requests from internal stakeholders, customers, and auditors are acknowledged, triaged, routed, and closed in a timely and transparent manner.
- Serve as a trusted security advisor to Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, customer-facing teams, and senior leadership.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives that improve Jama’s security posture, reduce risk, and support compliance with SOC 2 Type II.
- Develop and maintain the Information Security roadmap, reflecting the emerging threats, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, audit findings, business priorities, and operational maturity needs.
- Support security awareness, training, and policy acknowledgement efforts in partnership with appropriate business owners.
- Evaluate and recommend security tooling, process improvements, and automation that improve visibility, response time, risk management, and operational effectiveness.
- Lead and develop members of the Information Security team through clear expectations, coaching, prioritization, feedback, and accountability.
What You'll Bring:
- 8+ years of experience in information security, including hands-on experience with security operations, risk management, incident response, vulnerability management, and compliance programs.
- 2+ years of people management experience, including setting expectations, coaching team members, prioritizing work, and holding others accountable for follow-through.
- Demonstrated experience owning or leading core security programs, such as vulnerability management, incident response, security risk assessment, policy governance, security reviews, and compliance readiness.
- Strong understanding of security best practices, application/product security concepts, cloud security, network fundamentals, and risk-based decision-making.
- Experience supporting SaaS products or hosted enterprise software environments, including partnership with Engineering, Product, IT, or infrastructure teams.
- Working knowledge of SOC 2 Type II and related security/compliance frameworks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide timely stakeholder updates and concise executive-facing summaries.
- Demonstrated ability to operate autonomously, manage competing priorities, close communication loops, and follow work through to completion without requiring close day-to-day direction.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with Legal, IT, Product, Engineering, customer-facing teams, auditors, and senior leadership on security matters.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with security automation, workflow improvement, or tooling that improves visibility, triage, remediation tracking, or reporting.
- Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC, or AWS Security Specialty
- Experience leading security work across distributed or remote-first teams
Perks and Benefits:
- Virtual first and culturally diverse work environment spanning 8 countries.
- Ambitious and fun work with a chance to define distinct, company-shaping tangible contributions.
- Flexible time off and leave programs crafted to meet the needs for your rejuvenation and extra support to cope with life events with a quarterly $75 wellness reimbursement.
- Comprehensive and affordable medical, dental and vision plans with pre-tax savings accounts and a generous 401(k) employer match.
- 6+ weeks of paid parental leave to bond with your new family member.
- Emphasis on learning and development at all levels with a subscription to LinkedIn Learning.
At Jama Software, we welcome passionate individuals who have the unrestricted right to work in the United States, including natural citizens and Green Card holders, and reside in eligible states to join our team.
Jama Software participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9.
If you get to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in Jama Software’s mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Jama Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to any characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us at [email protected] to request an accommodation.
