Lead the Product Security team at Harvey, embedding security into engineering as the company scales rapidly.
Posted by employer 22 hours ago
First seen on Joblaze 12 hours ago
Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Shape product security roadmap
- Lead a team of engineers
- Align security investments with business priorities
- Provide technical direction on architecture reviews
- Communicate risks and progress to engineering leaders
Must have
- Experience managing Product Security or Application Security engineers
- Strong engineering background with expertise in modern application security
- Track record of delivering security improvements through engineering
- Experience hiring and mentoring security engineers
- Ability to translate broader security goals into team priorities
AI in the day-to-day
Harvey is building AI-native software for professional services.
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In the role of Head of Product Security at Harvey, the individual will lead a team focused on integrating security into the engineering processes, ensuring that product development is both rapid and secure. The position requires a strong background in application security and cloud-native architectures, along with experience in managing and mentoring security engineers. This role is suited for someone with a proven track record in delivering security enhancements through collaboration with development teams and a capacity to translate strategic security goals into actionable team priorities.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 1, 2026. Last confirmed on Harvey's careers page October 1, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Harvey: New York.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 65% of 23 comparable lead security roles in United States we track (median $200,000 across 13 companies).
- Application Security appears in 2% of 49 comparable lead security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- Harvey lists $272,000–$408,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Application Security, cloud-native.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Harvey targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Head of Product Security role at Harvey.
From the original posting
Role Overview
Harvey is building AI-native software for professional services. Our customers trust us with some of the world's most sensitive information, making security fundamental to everything we build. As a leader on our Product Security team, you'll help embed security into our engineering organization, enabling teams to build quickly and securely as we scale.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Security, you'll help shape our product security roadmap and lead a team of engineers in delivering it. Your team will own defined areas of Harvey's production surface, working closely with product and platform engineers to shape architecture, influence design decisions, and build security tooling. You'll combine people leadership with sound technical judgment to protect our customers and make secure development easier across Harvey.
What You'll Do
You'll partner directly with our Senior Director of Product Security to translate the broader security strategy into focused priorities and measurable outcomes for your team. You'll hire, develop, and lead Product Security Engineers, establishing clear ownership and helping them become trusted partners to their engineering counterparts. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and Security, you'll align security investments with business priorities and the technical realities of our platform.
Day to day, you'll own your team's planning, prioritization, and delivery. You'll provide technical direction on architecture reviews, threat modeling, and remediation, helping engineers navigate complex security tradeoffs. You'll scale the team's impact through automation, developer tooling, and secure-by-default patterns, while using what your team learns to improve our security standards and engineering practices. You'll communicate risks and progress to engineering leaders, build alignment on priorities, and hold the team accountable for meaningful improvements to Harvey's security.
What You Have
Experience managing Product Security or Application Security engineers at a growing technology company
A strong engineering background with deep expertise in modern application security and cloud-native architectures
A track record of delivering security improvements through engineering, automation, and close partnership with development teams
Experience hiring, mentoring, and developing security engineers, with a focus on technical growth and clear ownership
The ability to translate broader security goals into focused team priorities and measurable results.
Sound technical judgment and the ability to earn credibility with senior engineers and influence cross-functional partners.
Compensation
$272,000 - $408,000 USD
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