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As Ro expands its use of AI-enabled workflows, mobile experiences, and automated customer support, Product Security plays a central role in helping teams ship quickly without losing sight of the risks that matter most.\nWe are looking for a senior security leader to set the direction for Product Security and lead the engineers responsible for protecting Ro's product surface. The scope includes application security, iOS and Android security, security architecture, AI product security, cloud and data security partnership, vulnerability management, and executive guidance for identity verification and KYC.\nThis role reports to the CISO and works closely with leaders across Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Commerce, and other partner teams. You will turn security priorities into practical engineering decisions, measurable programs, and clear accountability. You will also lead and develop a team of senior security engineers. This role will be located in New York City, or remote with a willingness for frequent travel to Ro's NYC headquarters.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nProduct teams involve Product Security early enough that material risks can be addressed in architecture and implementation, not discovered only before launch.\nRo has a clear product-security strategy with explicit priorities, owners, investment decisions, and measures of progress.\nSecurity controls for AI-enabled products are grounded in realistic abuse cases, instrumented in production, and improved as Ro's use of agents and automation evolves.\nIdentity and KYC decisions balance confidence, customer experience, fraud risk, and operational cost across web and mobile experiences.\nDevelopers can use repeatable security tooling and guidance in their normal delivery workflows, with adoption and impact visible to leadership.\nSenior engineers on the team have clear ownership, room to lead, and a path to grow their scope and influence.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead Ro's Product Security function across application security, mobile security, architecture review, AI product risk, and product-facing vulnerability management, while coordinating closely with cloud and data security partners.\nEstablish the function's long-term priorities and operating model. Convert company risk choices into sequenced engineering initiatives, staffing and investment needs, accountable owners, and outcome-oriented metrics.\nSet expectations for secure product development, including architecture review, threat analysis, security testing, developer guidance, and patterns that teams can reuse without adding unnecessary friction.\nOwn the security approach for AI-assisted customer service and internal automations. Address threats such as prompt injection, unsafe tool use, data exposure, and manipulation, and ensure that evaluation and production monitoring inform ongoing control improvements.\nProvide senior security leadership for identity verification and KYC. Partner with Product and Commerce on verification flows and the signals used to make risk decisions.\nExpand automated security checks for web, mobile, and AI development within CI/CD and engineering workflows. Track where controls are used, where they are bypassed, and whether they reduce meaningful defect classes.\nUse penetration testing, threat analysis, vulnerability data, and bug bounty findings to identify systemic issues and communicate changes in Ro's risk posture to executives.\nDevelop security education and enablement that changes engineering behavior: better designs, earlier engagement, fewer repeated vulnerability patterns, and stronger ownership by product teams.\nManage and grow a senior technical team. Define durable areas of ownership, coach emerging leaders, and evolve the organization as Ro's product and risk surface expands.\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team\n12+ years of relevant experience across security and engineering, including meaningful experience building or shipping production software and leading security work in fast-moving technology organizations.\nLeadership experience in product security for a consumer-facing business where account compromise, abuse, fraud, payments, or other adversarial behavior are recurring operating concerns. Experience in consumer health, fintech, marketplaces, or a comparable environment is especially relevant.\nStrong technical depth in application security, secure architecture and design, and vulnerability management, with the credibility to work directly with experienced software and security engineers.\nExperience securing both web applications and native mobile applications at a meaningful consumer scale.\nPractical knowledge of identity verification, KYC, and fraud risk, including the product and engineering trade-offs involved in high-confidence, low-friction verification.\nWorking familiarity with modern software delivery and security tooling, including CI/CD systems and technologies such as GitHub and Snyk, plus enough fluency in languages used by Ro teams - including Java, Python, Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript/Node.js - to engage constructively in technical decisions.\nAbility to explain technical and product risk in concrete business terms, make recommendations under uncertainty, deliver clear guidance and build alignment across teams with competing priorities.\nDemonstrated ability to develop senior engineers, delegate meaningful ownership, and create clarity in organizations that are changing quickly.\nMaster's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical leadership experience.\nWe’ve Got You Covered\nFull medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership\nHealthcare and Dependent Care FSA\n401(k) with company match\nFlexible PTO\nWellbeing + Learning & Growth stipends\nPaid parental leave + Fertility benefits\nPet insurance\nStudent loan refinancing\nVirtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and 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