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About the Role
As the Head of Product and Identity Security, you will own two of the three core areas within the Security Engineering team: Product Security and Identity. You will report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and operate as a peer to the Head of Threat Detection & Response. Your responsibilities will span application security, penetration testing, cloud security, AI security, secure architecture, identity, and vulnerability operations. This is a player-manager role where you will lead a global team across the UK, Eastern Europe, and India, staying hands-on with the technology. This is a significant opportunity to influence Tide's cyber resilience strategy.
Responsibilities
- Define the product and identity security strategy in conjunction with the CISO and operationalize it into a funded, sequenced roadmap.
- Lead, coach, and grow a global team across the UK, Eastern Europe, and India, setting clear objectives and supporting career growth.
- Own application security end-to-end, including secure design reviews, threat modeling, secure coding standards, tooling, and remediation.
- Run the penetration testing program across web, mobile, and infrastructure, managing internal testing and external partners.
- Own cloud security posture, including configuration, workload protection, detection coverage, and guardrails.
- Set the approach to AI and agentic security, covering design, deployment, monitoring, and defense of models, agents, and ML pipelines.
- Own secure architecture to embed security requirements from the ground up in new products, platforms, and integrations.
- Own Tide's staff identity platform and the broader identity and access management (IAM) roadmap, including zero trust, MFA, RBAC, and joiner/mover/leaver processes.
- Establish and run a rapid-response vulnerability operations capability with clear service levels and integration with SecOps and engineering.
- Face off directly with executives, product leaders, and engineering leadership to articulate risk, trade-offs, and investment cases.
- Deliver security enablement and security champions programs to ensure engineering teams can move quickly without security bottlenecks.
- Act as a senior escalation point for product and identity security issues, including during high-severity incidents.
- Recruit and onboard new team members and build technical capability through mentoring and upskilling.
- Own performance management for the team, including feedback, development plans, and managing underperformance.
- Define and report metrics to demonstrate program effectiveness, including vulnerability ageing, remediation, secure design review coverage, and enablement activity impact.
Requirements
- At least ten years of overall experience in cybersecurity.
- At least five years in a comparable leadership role, ideally within a technology company or fintech.
- Background as a hands-on security engineer, ideally including application and/or mobile penetration testing.
- Appetite to remain technical as a player-manager.
- Great knowledge of AI, agentic security, and ML, with a clear point of view on how to secure them in production.
- Strong grasp of threat modeling and ability to articulate risk credibly to both engineering and non-technical audiences.
- Proven track record of delivering successful security enablement and security champions programs.
- Highly organized with the ability to operationalize a program and define strategy.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence to face off to executives.
- Experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones.
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills.
- Experience with identity providers (IdPs), privileged access management (PAM), and broader IAM tooling, such as Okta, Ping, and ConductorOne, or equivalents (Nice to have).
- Experience standing up a rapid-response vulnerability operations or remediation operations function and integrating it with SecOps (Nice to have).
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Product Security
- Identity Security
- Application Security
- Penetration Testing
- Cloud Security
- AI Security
- Secure Architecture
- Vulnerability Operations
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Threat Modeling
- Security Enablement
- Security Champions Programs
- Stakeholder Management
- Distributed Team Leadership
- AI
- Agentic Security
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Zero Trust
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Identity Providers (IdPs)
- Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Okta
- Ping
- ConductorOne
Location
- UK
- Eastern Europe
- India
- Central London
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Serbia
- Romania
- Lithuania
- Hyderabad
- Gurugram
- New Delhi
- Berlin
- Paris
- Luxembourg
Work Type
- Flexible workplace model
- Remote work supported
- In-person interactions encouraged
- Work Outside the Office (WOO) for up to 90 days annually
Experience Level
- At least ten years of overall experience in cybersecurity
- At least five years in a comparable leadership role
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary and share options
Benefits
- Generous annual leave on top of bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Extended unpaid and paid leave options after completing milestone years with Tide (Sabbatical)
- Access to salary sacrifice benefits (Nursery, Cycle to Work discounts)
- Comprehensive Private family insurance plan (Health Insurance)
- Comprehensive accidental and life insurance protection (Life & Accident Cover)
- Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops (Mental Wellbeing)
- Pension scheme on eligible earnings (Retirement Planning)
- Paid days annually for volunteering or personal growth (Volunteering & Development Days)
- Annual budget for books, courses, coaching, and more (Learning & Development)
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually (WOO)
- Contribution towards setting up your home office (Home Office Setup)
- Keep your old laptop and get a new one when it’s time for a replacement (Laptop Ownership)
- Daily breakfast spread with all-day coffee, tea, and juices (Snacks & Meals)
About the Company
- Tide helps SMEs save time and money by offering business accounts, banking services, and administrative solutions like invoicing and accounting.
- Tide is transforming the small business banking market and supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany, and France.
- Tide uses advanced technology with solutions designed for SMEs, focusing on quick onboarding, low fees, and innovative features.
- Tide's mission is to help SMEs save time and money so they can focus on their passions.
- Tide has over 2 million members across the UK and India.
- Tide has raised over $300 million in funding.
- Tide has over 2,800 employees globally.
- Tide has received Great Place to Work certification three years in a row and was recognized among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026.
- Tide has offices in Central London, with member support and technology centers in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centers in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania, and Hyderabad, and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris, and Luxembourg.
Equal Opportunity
- At Tide, we believe that we can only succeed if we let our differences enrich our culture.
- Our Tideans come from a variety of backgrounds and experience levels.
- We consider everyone irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity or differently-abled status.
- We celebrate diversity in our workforce as a cornerstone of our success.
- Our commitment to a broad spectrum of ideas and backgrounds enables us to build products that resonate with our members’ diverse needs and lives.
- We are One Team and foster a transparent and inclusive environment, where everyone’s voice is heard.
- Tide thrives on diversity, embracing various backgrounds and experiences.
- We welcome all individuals regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
- Our inclusive culture is key to our success, helping us build products that meet our members' diverse needs.
- We are One Team, committed to transparency and ensuring everyone’s voice is heard.