Senior Security Technical Program Manager

Job Description About Glean Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company's cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence. Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain's deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work. About The Role Glean is seeking a Senior Security Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead large-scale, cross-functional security initiatives that strengthen the organization's overall security posture and ensure compliance, resilience, and trust.This role sits at the intersection of security engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and operations, driving programs that protect data, systems, and users. You'll partner with Engineering, Legal, and GTM teams to define security objectives, structure execution plans, and deliver measurable outcomes that align with both product and regulatory requirements. You Will - Lead and deliver end-to-end security programs, spanning application security, infrastructure hardening, identity and access management, data protection, and compliance initiatives. - Partner with Security Engineering and Infrastructure teams to define secure-by-design practices and ensure consistent application across the SDLC. - Drive security reviews for our customers and product launches, ensuring all new capabilities meet internal and external compliance standards. - Coordinate vulnerability and incident management workflows, ensuring timely triage, prioritization, and closure with clear ownership and communication. - Develop and track program metrics, including risk reduction, vulnerability remediation timelines, and compliance maturity progress. - Partner with Engineering leaders to build scalable processes for threat modeling, code reviews, and dependency management. - Communicate effectively with technical and executive stakeholders translating complex security risks into clear, actionable business context. - Continuously improve security operations, identifying process gaps, automating manual workflows, and improving visibility and accountability. About You - Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related technical field. - Experience: 8-10+ years of experience in technical program management, engineering, or security operations, with at least 3-5 years managing security or compliance-related programs. - Proven success delivering cross-functional security programs in B2B or enterprise software environments, particularly where customer trust, compliance, and data protection are central to the business. - Strong understanding of security principles, including network security, cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, vulnerability management, and incident response. - Familiarity with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern SRE practices. - Ability to structure complex, multi-phase security programs with clear milestones, metrics, and accountability. - Excellent written and verbal communication, especially in simplifying technical risks for executive stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to manage through ambiguity, anticipate risks, and drive alignment in high-stakes security decisions. - Builder mindset with the ability to automate workflows to improve operational efficiency. Location: - This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office) Compensation & Benefits Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits. We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.