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About the Role
General Motors is seeking a people leader to head the Secure Development & Application Security function, a critical Cybersecurity team focused on integrating security controls into software development before production. This role emphasizes scaling practical, developer-friendly security solutions across modern software environments to enhance risk reduction and engineering collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Secure Development & Application Security function, including team direction, operating model, workforce planning, and delivery against business priorities.
- Define and drive the roadmap for security controls embedded in engineering workflows, including static testing, dynamic testing, API security, AI security, and runtime resilience.
- Own functional performance through key metrics and service outcomes, using data to prioritize investments, improve coverage, and reduce application risk at scale.
- Partner with engineering and platform teams to integrate security controls into development pipelines and release processes in ways that are effective, reliable, and usable.
- Guide leaders and team members through complex technical and operational decisions, removing roadblocks and enabling consistent execution across multiple teams.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships to align policy, tooling, detection, remediation, and governance across the software development lifecycle.
- Develop talent, strengthen succession pipelines, and lead organizational change that improves team capability, accountability, and impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, software engineering security, or secure software development.
- 3+ years of experience leading people, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and team development.
- 3+ years of experience leading or scaling one or more application security domains such as static testing, dynamic testing, API security, AI security, threat modeling, or runtime protection.
- Experience partnering with engineering and product organizations to embed security controls into software delivery workflows, developer tools, and release processes.
- Experience owning operational goals, metrics, or key performance indicators and using them to drive prioritization, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Working knowledge of modern software architectures and delivery environments, including cloud-native applications, APIs, containers, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and developer tooling.
- Demonstrated ability to make independent decisions on significant matters, influence across functions, and lead teams through change in a complex enterprise environment.
Skills
- Static application security testing
- Dynamic application security testing
- API security
- AI security
- Runtime resilience
- Cloud-native applications
- APIs
- Containers
- Continuous integration and delivery pipelines
- Developer tooling
- CISSP
- CSSLP
- GIAC
- Cloud security certifications
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, software engineering security, or secure software development
- 3+ years of experience leading people
- 3+ years of experience leading or scaling one or more application security domains
- 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity or software security, including enterprise-scale application security leadership (Preferred)
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field (Preferred)
Benefits
- Relocation benefits may be available.
- GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally.
About the Company
- Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
- We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture.
- Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
Equal Opportunity
- General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging.
- We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.
- All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran or protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.
- General Motors offers opportunities to all job seekers including individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, email us or call us at 1-800-865-7580.