Listing Description
This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others. In 2018, Costco contributed over $39 million to organizations such as United Way and Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the second largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in twelve countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco consistently ranks in the top five of Forbes “America’s Best Employers”.
The role of every Cybersecurity Infrastructure team member is to support the overarching values and business goals of Costco Wholesale as they relate to meeting legal, ethical, and regulatory obligations; protecting member’s and employee’s privacy; and maintaining a security technology environment for our operations.
The Product Manager is responsible for setting a product vision and strategy, drawing out the most value from a product and guiding the team to execute on the product vision. The Product Manager also works closely with architects and other technical leads to ensure the solution effectively addresses program priorities while maintaining technical integrity. The Product Manager also facilitates product management meetings, planning, and backlog/vision refinement sessions. Product Managers work with Product Owners and customers to understand and communicate their needs, define system features, and participate in validation.
This position will ensure that our Platform Security program provides comprehensive and up to date information about our hardware and software assets to enable discovery, categorization, triage, patching, hardening, and response capabilities at scale across Costco globally. Individuals in this role will build meaningful relationships with teams and management at Costco. This role will drive implementation, execution, metrics, and sustainability of program objectives that allow Cybersecurity Infrastructure to continuously improve our ability to protect and respond to vulnerabilities and threats to our global footprint.
If you want to be a part of one of the BEST “to work for” companies in the world, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.
ROLE
- Owns the overall vision and roadmap of a given product and leads the ideation, technical development, and launch of new features and capabilities.
- Monitors new and emerging security, compliance and privacy related requirements, technologies, trends, issues, and solutions, and assesses their applicability to Costco Wholesale’s key business initiatives and business strategies. Provides advice and consulting to senior management and the organization in the development, implementation, and administration of actions to meet these emerging requirements.
- Coordinates and monitors information security activities throughout the organization, including the preparation of periodic status and progress reports to applicable parties, leadership teams, and stakeholders.
- Collaborates with business stakeholders to define and prioritize the features and epics which yield the highest business benefit for the organization.
- Supports teams as an all-around product resource explaining and clarifying functionality, demonstrating benefits, and communicating new ideas to help grow the business.
- Collaborates with architects to understand the need to address technical debt and support technical innovation.
- Leads activities to support the delivery of new functionality including product launch communications, training materials, user acceptance testing, business validation, success criteria measurement and analysis, and post-deployment analysis to identify improvements.
- Facilitates program ceremonies (e.g., product increment planning sessions, retrospectives, demos, etc.).
- Coordinates the development and maintenance of a given product through the collaboration and partnership with internal customers, suppliers, and strategic partners.
- Defines the product roadmap and collaborates with stakeholders to create release plans and backlogs.
- Writes features and success criteria with key stakeholders and business leaders.
- Refines the product roadmap based on insights gained from customer feedback.
- Makes final business decisions related to the product with input from business and technology stakeholders.
- Collaborates with business stakeholders to identify and explore new opportunities (e.g., promotions, partnerships) to extend products to new customers, verticals, and late adopters.
- Serves the organization as the subject matter expert with respect to competition, industry trends, technological advances, and changing customer needs.
- Demonstrates thought leadership and champions the product vision across the company.
REQUIRED
- Proven experience working on a Scrum and/or Agile team.
- Conversant in technology matters related to security, architecture, emerging InfoSec trends, compliance, and risk.
- Experience working with Platform Security tools and platforms.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, that can communicate security and compliance issues to executives, end users, and security experts in an effective and appropriate manner.
- Outstanding customer\client relations skills to ensure that security and business objectives are always in alignment and a flexible and business-oriented focus on security matters.
- Deep understanding of business requirements elicitation pursuant to specific programs/projects involved.
- Expertise in utilizing standard documentation tools/utilities.
- Must be extremely responsive, with a strong sense of urgency. Deadline oriented and capable of self-management.
- Able to work well under stress and handle crisis situations professionally.
- Able to support 24x7x365 operations including off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.
- International travel may be required.
Recommended
- A deep understanding of Cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, controls, and remediation strategies in global enterprise environments
- Working knowledge of Platform Security Management technologies, including but not limited to, security orchestration and response, attack surface management, IoT Security, and email security.
- An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, verbally and in writing, in an easily-understood, authoritative, and actionable manner.
- Hands-on experience related to security design, architecture, incident response, and strategic planning.
- One or more professional security certifications such as PMP, CPM, SPM, PDMA (or equivalent work experience).
- Strong work ethic, demonstrated attention to detail, excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment.
- Ability to listen to and understand business needs.
- Possess experience with one or more IT management frameworks, such as: ISO/27001, ITILv3, or, SIX Sigma.
Required Documents
- Cover Letter
- Resume
California applicants, please click here to review the Costco Applicant Privacy Notice.
Apart from any religious or disability considerations, open availability is needed to meet the needs of the business. If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.
Listing Details
- Salary: $0 - $175000
- Citizenship: Us Citizen
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: No Travel
- Telework: Full Telecommute