Product Manager

About Halborn

Already in 2021, the global cryptocurrency and DeFi industry has lost over $3B from hacks. The organization’s Halborn advises on security matters have suffered 0 financially impacting incidents. Founded in 2019, Halborn was born to solve the slew of adversarial problems unique to the cryptocurrency industry including but not limited to breaches, social engineering, stolen private keys, and economic hacks. Halborn’s clientele are top 50 layer 1’s blockchain protocols, DeFi & NFT platforms, and major financial institutions globally.

Company Culture

Culture is top priority in our 100% distributed organization of 40+ elite security engineers. We value independence, learning, never before confronted challenges and the ability to make big impacts in cutting edge technologies. The right candidate will be offered a full-time salary and equity. Perks include unlimited PTO, opportunities for travel and bonuses. Health Insurance is dependent on the applicant’s country of residence but readily available.

About the Role

CISO-as-a-Service is one of Halborn’s top priority services. We’re seeking 1-3 powerhouse CISOs to grow and build an expanded practice to build best practices for the world’s leading blockchain protocols and centralized financial institutions.

What You Get To Do Every Day

• Develop and communicate a risk-based and data-driven strategy and roadmap for several high profile blockchain protocols. with c-suite, engineering and customers.
• Effective communicate and align with key stakeholders including c-suite, engineering and customers.
• Provide beyond an exceptional level of service to our clients.
• Become a role model of Halborn Core Values.
• Coach and encourage others to model these values.
• Oversee the management of unified offensive security projects.
• Lead initiatives to build control framework to integrate and normalize the wide variety and ever-changing requirements resulting from a fast paced industry.
• Provide regular reporting on the current status of the information security program to business leaders and the board of directors as part of a strategic enterprise risk management program.
• Ensure that security programs are in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies to minimize or eliminate risk and audit findings.
• Engage with external communities and activities to maintain good perspective on information security practices at peer organizations and the threat environment; promote and increase organizational ability to address common problems. Monitor the external threat environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action.
• Work closely with legal/compliance team to ensure that all practices and policies related to IT security are free from bias and discrimination, appropriate understanding of regulatory requirements, and appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
• Motivate and lead a diverse, high-performing team, utilizing effective talent management practices to attract and retain team members. Ensure high levels of employee engagement, operations performance excellence, commitment to continuous learning and appropriate succession planning
• Analyze and select alternatives based on threat, risk, desirability, feasibility, and viability
• Advise executive decision makers based on business and technology risks
• Maintain close ties to developers across the company, ensuring the services we create meet their needs as products evolve
• Iterate quickly and see the products through to from idea phase to production and scale
• Establish product value propositions, metrics, and key indicators
• Recruit, motivate, mentor, and lead talent to be their best

Responsibilities + Requirements:

• Experience taking seeds of ideas through to execution, production and scale.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management
• 1+ years of experience in Information Security
• At least 3 years of experience translating strategy into product requirements and key objectives
• Ability to build consensus and relationships among managers, partners, and employees.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Highest level of attention to detail

Nice to Haves:

• Experience professionally or casually learning about, working in, contributing to cryptocurrency / blockchain / bitcoin / ethereum related projects.
• Experience in any sector of cybersecurity / information security / infosec
• An MBA
• CISSP, CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, or any relevant cybersecurity related certifications