Senior Product Security Consultant – Advisory
Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 in consulting or advisory work at a professional services firm
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 5 years in consulting or advisory work at a professional services firm.
- Have a record of leading client engagements.
- Bring cybersecurity program experience and enough working knowledge of binary analysis, SBOMs, vulnerability management, and reachability to work effectively with engineers.
- Have working depth in at least one core area: automotive, IoT, industrial, or healthcare, including its governing regulations and standards.
- 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 early escalation.
- Have executive-level writing and briefing skills for audiences including engineering leaders, general counsel, and boards.
- Use LLMs and agentic tools effectively while applying judgment about what requires human verification.
- Notified body, conformity assessment, or audit experience is a plus.
- Experience with the EU CRA, FDA 524B, IEC 62443, or ISO/SAE 21434 is a plus.
- FDA premarket submission experience, tabletop exercise design and facilitation, CISSP, CSSLP, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certification, or government or public policy cybersecurity experience is 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, gaps, evidence needs, conformity paths, and regulatory 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.
- Translate SBOM, vulnerability, reachability, and penetration test findings into regulatory and business terms.