Senior Director of Product Security

📋 Description

• Own Apptronik's product security strategy and roadmap, aligned to product and operational milestones
• Build and lead a product security team — hiring, mentoring, and defining org structure as the
• Serve as the primary security voice to the COO and executive team, communicating risk posture
• Develop a product security charter that defines boundaries and working relationships with T&V
• Design and deploy monitoring frameworks for Apollo in both development and production/field
• Define telemetry and alerting requirements that enable early detection of anomalous behavior

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in security engineering or product security, with 5+ years leading security organizations
• Demonstrated experience defining and building a security discipline in an emerging hardware or
• Deep experience securing embedded systems, robotics, autonomous vehicles, or other physical-AI
• Hands-on expertise across the stack: secure boot, firmware security, cryptographic key management
• Strong background building security monitoring and incident response programs in production
• Track record of translating security risk into product and engineering requirements that teams

🎁 Benefits

• Opportunity to define how Apptronik thinks about security as we scale — setting the bar for an
• Direct COO support and real cross-functional authority
• Opportunity to build a program from scratch at a company shipping real hardware into the real world