Job Description

Your job:

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- Provides disciplinary leadership to the Product Security Lab team and builds a stable, motivated, high-performing team through coaching, feedback, and structured development
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- Effectively engagewith the team, understand their challenges, and support operational decision-making
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- Owns hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, goal setting, and succession planning in alignment with the matrix manager
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- Ensures timely, high-quality delivery of product security testing commitments agreed during PI planning by monitoring capacity, workload, and delivery risks, and escalating bottlenecks proactively
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- Maintains structured planning, backlog readiness, and transparent tracking of execution while collaborating closely with the global Head of Product Security to align on priorities, goals, and expectations
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- Supports audits, assessments, and compliance activities relevant to the Product Security Lab while developing the team in line with global demand and roadmap priorities
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- Drives the maturity of the lab from a startup setup to a resilient, autonomous operating model,



ensuring knowledge retention, effective documentation, and sustainable ways of working
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Your qualification:

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- Demonstrates experience in line or team management within engineering, testing, or security environments, with proven ability to lead experienced specialists and expert teams
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- Strong track record in delivery management, people leadership, and scaling teams, with solid understanding of Product Security principles and practices to effectively lead and support a team of security specialists
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- Hands-on pentesting expertise is a plus
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- Effectively operates within matrix organizations with shared accountability, working in a structured, reliable, and execution focused manner
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- Balances people needs, delivery expectations, and organizational constraints while communicating effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones
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- Familiarity with the Scaled Agile Framework (Protected) is an added advantage
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📌 Product Security Lab Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Festo India
📍 Bengaluru