Security Jobs at Protocol Labs

We seek talented human catalysts with a passion for guiding teams to deliver quantifiable results in a structured process, interfacing with stakeholders and consumers of the tech produced, and ensuring that these results support Protocol Labs’ topline objectives.

Key Summary

We are hiring a Technical Program Manager to help drive and coordinate Security programs across Filecoin, IPFS, and libp2p. We're looking for people who thoroughly understand the underlying principles of distributed systems, open source projects and networks, blockchain security risks and mitigation, and who will lean into the challenges of applying these principles to make these critical web3 building blocks secure, resilient, and robust.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will engage with an experienced interdisciplinary team to design and build resilient security systems for tomorrow’s web. You will work closely with the product and engineering teams to define and improve new and existing security programs, and ultimately be responsible for the successful execution and delivery of these security programs. You must be adaptive, execution-oriented, and able to succeed within a fast-paced environment.

The Security Technical Program Manager is responsible for creating and improving security programs (ex Filecoin Bug Bounty Program), analyzing critical network systems for security vulnerabilities or abuses, designing new mechanisms for auditing and verifying correct behavior in decentralized network, organizing audits and cross-project security practices that proactively harden and secure new network upgrades and features, and more. You will work closely with security engineers to evaluate risks and vulnerabilities for severity, and be the point person to ensure any issues identified are resolved quickly and securely. The Security Technical Program Manager will also drive and motivate the cross-functional security team to ensure these critical web3 building blocks are secure and robust.

As a Technical Program Manager at Protocol Labs, you will...

• Lead the efficient delivery of cross-functional security program improvements
• Interact with a multitude of Web3 and Research projects and other key stakeholders to source, assess, and mitigate potential security vulnerabilities or risks
• Drive team decision-making on security decisions and ensure that appropriate resources are employed to deliver high quality results
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels
• Create, maintain and disseminate security program information to stakeholders
• Drive execution of existing security programs, such as our Bug Bounty, Security Audit, Emergency Response and Responsible Disclosure programs
• Lead cross functional security program meetings, communication, and decision making - including presenting on security program improvements and status to executive management
• Keep program artifacts up to date and manage project document repository
• Drive quarterly goal setting, prioritization, and individual work coordination

You may be a good fit for this role if you have...

• Be comfortable discussing with engineers, understand the technology and develop a good intuition to aid on the decision making process
• Experienced in gathering requirements, developing specifications, and driving execution
• Product & Project Management experience.
• Experience managing hardware/software product releases
• Ability to drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups
• Experience with leading 3rd party teams, engineering teams and business stakeholders

Bonus Points

• Experience managing technical teams
• Working with distributed teams
• Experience working in Open Source projects
• Experience working in Volunteer led organizations
• Demonstrated ability to manage project/task prioritization, project planning and schedule development
• Proven success of influencing and developing productive working relationships with diverse technical teams and stakeholders
• Strong technical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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