Senior Product Security Consultant – Advisory
Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 in consulting or advisory work
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in consulting or advisory work at a professional services firm, such as Big Four, federal consulting, or a cybersecurity or regulatory consultancy.
- Bring a record of leading client engagements.
- Have cybersecurity program experience and sufficient understanding of binary analysis, SBOMs, vulnerability management, and reachability to work effectively with engineers.
- Have working depth in at least one of automotive, IoT, industrial, or healthcare, including the regulations and standards governing that area.
- Be able to interpret regulations or standards and translate them into requirements and product implications.
- Be disciplined in engagement management, including work breakdown structures, milestone schedules, status reporting, risk and action tracking, and escalating problems early.
- Write and brief effectively for executives, including engineering leaders, General Counsel, and boards.
- Use LLMs and agentic tools to support work, while applying judgment about what requires human verification.
- A notified body, conformity assessment, or audit background is a plus.
- Experience with EU CRA, FDA 524B, IEC 62443, or ISO/SAE 21434; FDA premarket submissions; or tabletop exercises is a plus.
- CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification, and government or public policy cybersecurity experience, are a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead advisory engagements end to end, including scoping, work breakdowns, milestone schedules, client meetings, risk and action tracking, and timely delivery.
- Frame regulatory programs for clients facing the EU CRA, CE RED (EN 18031), FDA 524B, and FCC Cyber Trust Mark.
- Assess product classification, applicable requirements, evidence needs, conformity paths, gaps, and roadmaps.
- Deliver security and regulatory compliance assessments and turn findings into prioritized, defensible recommendations.
- Serve as the named virtual Chief Product Security Officer on client accounts, running program cadence and representing product security to executives.
- Direct work carried out by Finite State's engineering team and client engineers.
- Design secure development lifecycle programs, including policy, governance, and training.
- Write assessments, roadmaps, policies, briefings, and evidence packages for executive and engineering audiences.
- Work with engineering and offensive security teams to translate SBOM, vulnerability, reachability, and penetration test findings into regulatory and business terms.
- Scope bootcamps, support sellers through the services request process, and build reusable templates, playbooks, and practice assets.