PRODUCT SECURITY TEAM LEADER
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PRODUCT SECURITY TEAM LEADER
Ambition Needs a Place to Grow.
At Playtika, we create mobile games enjoyed by millions worldwide.
Combining the scale of a public company (NASDAQ: PLTK) with the speed and ownership of a startup, we are a global leader where innovation, data, and creativity shape the future of entertainment.
Here, your ideas matter, your decisions impact products, and your growth is supported across global studios.
Bring your hunger where it belongs: at the front of the pack.
About the Position
Join Playtika as a Product Security Team Leader to manage and enhance our product security practices, ensuring robust protection against modern threats.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing product security team, setting priorities, standards, and measurable goals.
- Define and execute the team’s roadmap in partnership with R&D, architecture, security champions, and business stakeholders.
- Drive SSDLC practices, including threat modeling, secure design reviews, security requirements, code and architecture reviews, penetration testing, and vulnerability remediation.
- Assess and advise on the security of web, mobile, API, microservices, Kubernetes, and cloud-native products.
- Oversee penetration testing, vulnerability management, SAST/DAST, WAF and runtime protection, and remediation follow-up.
- Triage security findings, assess exploitability and business impact, and provide practical mitigation guidance.
- Manage bug-bounty and external security-research programs, including researcher engagement and vulnerability triage.
- Lead the development of security tooling, automation, and attack-surface monitoring capabilities, and enhance the team’s capabilities using AI tools.
- Coordinate security projects and collaborate with incident response teams during product-security incidents.
- Develop security training and enablement programs for R&D and security champions.
- Promote continuous improvement in security practices and support technical compliance efforts related to GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable requirements.
Requirements
Must-have:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in application security, product security, or a closely related security engineering discipline.
- Strong expertise in web application, API, mobile application, and service-to-service security.
- Strong understanding of common application-security weaknesses and modern attack techniques, including authentication and authorization flaws, injection, SSRF, business-logic abuse, secrets exposure, supply-chain risk, and cloud misconfiguration.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, microservices, cloud environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, business-enabler attitude with the ability to influence engineering teams and explain technical risk clearly.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, ownership, and people-leadership skills.
Advantages:
- Experience leading or managing an application/product security team or function.
- Experience with SSDLC, threat modeling, secure design reviews, security architecture, vulnerability remediation, and risk prioritization.
- Experience with penetration testing, vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, and API security testing.
- Experience with external attack-surface management, runtime application protection, WAF, API gateways, service-mesh security, or cloud security.
We Offer
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment.
- Be part of a global team that values your ideas and contributions.
- Competitive benefits and career growth opportunities.
About the Company
At Playtika, we create mobile games enjoyed by millions worldwide. Combining the scale of a public company (NASDAQ: PLTK) with the speed and ownership of a startup, we are a global leader where innovation, data, and creativity shape the future of entertainment.
If you feel the above describes you perfectly - Apply now!
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