• Define and drive the product strategy for the controls that protect our most sensitive data (PII, financial, company confidential) across Octane’s platform, partners, and data systems. You will own the roadmap of initiatives to minimize data, application and process threat vectors, balancing robust protection with developer velocity and internal and external customer experience.
• Partner closely with Security, Engineering, Platform/Infra, Data Platform, Legal, Risk, Capital Markets, and Sales to deliver secure‑by‑default, enterprise‑grade features and policies that keep our data secure. This is a high‑impact IC role with significant cross‑functional influence and room for growth as Octane continues to scale.
• Set the vision & roadmap for Octane’s data security, data governance platforms spanning the full data lifecycle: classification, collection, storage, processing, access, sharing, and deletion/retention.
• Measure & improve with clear KPIs/SLOs (e.g., PII obfuscation, encryption coverage, key rotation compliance, audit log completeness, time‑to‑remediate).
• Embed security in the SDLC: threat modeling (like STRIDE, MITRE), design reviews, paved‑road patterns, secure defaults, and friction‑free guardrails in CI/CD.
• Collaborate across data: work with the Data Platform on data masking/synthetic data for dev/test, lineage, governance, data residency, and safe analytics. Aware of privacy implications in financial servicing and protecting our customers.
• Own outcomes: author crisp PRDs, ruthlessly prioritize, run high‑signal experiments, align stakeholders, and ship iteratively.
• Set a security-first mindset: help further engineering and stakeholder best practices by ensuring the data security is top-of-mind.

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Requirements: 

• 10 years of related experience is preferred but 5+ years is required with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent along with 4 + years in Product Management and 2+ years focused on security, data protection, platform, or identity products in cloud environments or, 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• Strong technical fluency in modern cloud security (preferably AWS: KMS/CloudHSM, IAM, Secrets Manager), encryption and key management patterns, tokenization, and secrets hygiene.
• Working knowledge of auth/federation (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML), provisioning (SCIM), and authorization models (RBAC/ABAC, policy‑as‑code).
  Experience delivering internal platforms/SDKs adopted by multiple product teams; passion for developer experience.
• Excellent product craft: problem framing, PRDs, metrics, sequencing, and stakeholder communication from engineers to executives.

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Preferred Skills: 

• Fintech, lending, payments, or consumer credit background.
• Experience with DLP, egress controls, data classification/governance, and retention/expungement workflows.
• Hands‑on background as an engineer or in AppSec/Platform Security; or relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CIPP/US)

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Compensation: The role described above offers a base salary of $140,000 to $190,000.  Your offer will be based on the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job, location, and internal equity.  In addition to the above-mentioned salary, Total Rewards include a stock option package, and benefits as outlined below.

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Benefits: 

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision) 
• Generous Parental Leave
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy - Time off when you need it.
• Retirement Plan (401K) with company match
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance etc. 
• Powersports Safety Benefit
• Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit

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Disclaimer:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.  All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.