Description

Come join Earth’s most customer-centric company! Amazon is looking for a Mobile Security Manager who combines deep insight and a passion for mobile security with proven leadership skills to oversee our Mobile Security portfolio. Your mission is to empower a team of highly skilled Mobile Security Engineers to secure the mobile experience of hundreds of millions of our customers. You bring expertise in mobile security, ensuring your fast-paced team can rely on your leadership, strategic vision, and technical skills to make the right decisions.

As a Mobile Security Manager, you will lead a highly skilled team of Mobile Security Engineers, dedicated to enhancing our mobile application security portfolio. Your role includes strategic oversight in annual planning and extensive collaboration with partner organizations across Amazon, including AWS. You will help drive the direction for mobile security research, automation, reviews, and consultations. Your leadership will ensure that our mobile applications consistently meet the highest standards of security, leveraging cross-departmental synergies to innovate and safeguard our customer experiences.

Key job responsibilities

• You will lead, manage, and develop a team of Mobile Security Engineers and Technical Program Managers who are responsible for securing all of Amazon’s mobile applications.

• You will set the direction for the team by driving strategic initiatives, influencing leadership, key stakeholders, and partnering with teams across Amazon.

• You will develop a healthy and collaborative culture, enabling the team to deliver impactful results.

• You will foster effective teamwork, communication, and collaboration across multiple groups with competing priorities, ensuring alignment and commitment.

• You will implement improvements to internal programs and processes, enhancing the operational effectiveness of the Mobile Security team.

• You will write and deliver high-quality documentation that is accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• You will drive the adoption of mobile security processes, automation, and tooling to improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of mobile security practices.

About the team

The MobileSec team is tasked with empowering the business to create secure, trustworthy mobile applications that our customers find delightful to use. We engage closely with the business from the outset of the development process to ensure that security considerations are integrated early and consistently. This collaborative approach positions us as partners with the business, minimizing the need for security trade-offs. Our close work with product teams allows us to participate in deep technical discussions and decisions. We prioritize obtaining the right training and career growth opportunities, enabling us to Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our development teams.

About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences

Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture

In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in leading, managing, and developing high-performance teams.

• At least 5 years of progressive experience within a software security team or a similar operating environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical understanding of the OWASP Mobile Security standards.

• Experience reading and writing code in at least one programming language, including Java, Kotlin, Objective C, or Swift.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in one or more of the following areas: mobile application security, mobile application development, or mobile penetration testing.

• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to translate technically complex issues into simple, easy-to-understand concepts.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $140,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $272,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.