Security Technical Program Manager

Cape is hiring our first Security Technical Program Manager, a rare chance to build this function from scratch inside a company where security is the product. You'll directly integrate with Security Engineering across their three pillars: detection and response, corporate security, and product security. Rather than specializing in one lane, you'll use your visibility of the whole board to set priorities, define success, and increase velocity.

You'll also be the connective tissue between security engineering and Cape's broader ~70-person engineering organization, managing speed-security tradeoffs that are becoming more complex as AI tools proliferate. The metrics you create will steer company-wide policy and prioritization, and your judgment will drive the company SBOM.

Ways You’ll Make an Impact:

• Define and communicate the security program's strategy, priorities, and progress to the broader business.
• Shape how Cape brings new security tools into the fold, from vendor procurement through implementation, powering the stack that keeps our security org running.
• Keep the security engineering team on track — manage priorities, maintain the backlog, and drive execution across detection & response, corporate security, and product security.
• Serve as the technical go-between for security engineers and Cape's ~70 product engineers, translating security requirements and risk into terms product teams can act on, and vice versa.
• Partner with security engineering leadership to plan roadmaps, run program rituals, and unblock cross-team dependencies.
• Build trust and clear communication channels with engineering stakeholders across the company.

Requirements:

• Prior experience as a TPM or PM embedded with a security team that builds tooling and systems in-house.
• Solid grounding in computer engineering fundamentals; comfortable going deep on technical detail with engineers across detection & response, corporate security, and product security.
• Track record of defining and communicating technical programs to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong prioritization and backlog management skills, with the judgment to know what matters most.
• Comfort operating as a trusted technical liaison between specialized teams and a large, distributed engineering organization.