As a Product Cybersecurity Manager at our company's Cyber-Defense Team, you will act as the focal point for cybersecurity across our company Automotive products throughout customer project lifecycles. You will be responsible for ensuring that cybersecurity requirements are consistently elicited, aligned with regulation and standards (e.g. UNECE R155, ISO/SAE 21434), and are integrated throughout Design, Development, Verification & Validation, and Support phases of automotive programs. Your mission is to support R&D, project management, and security engineering teams, as well as partners and suppliers, by governing the effective development of cybersecurity work-products across the program lifecycle ensuring continuous alignment with customer expectations and compliance obligations through clear validation and traceability.
What will your job look like:
Govern and review the elicitation, documentation, and alignment of cybersecurity requirements with internal stakeholders, customers: Tier-1/OEM, and suppliers.
Ensure that cybersecurity requirements are clearly defined, risk-informed (via TARA- Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment), and appropriately allocated across system, software, and hardware components.
Monitor cybersecurity progress throughout program lifecycles, ensuring work-products are produced, validated and delivered according to ISO/SAE 21434 and ASPICE standards.
Establish and maintain traceability from cybersecurity risks and applied goals to technical requirements, design elements, and validation artifacts.
Review and validate the completeness of cybersecurity compliance evidence during milestone and release gates (e.g. Cyber reviews, release readiness).
Serve as a central cybersecurity liaison across project management, systems engineering, and customer interface functions.
Track and support the resolution of cybersecurity-related gaps, non-conformities or event and incident management.
Prepare for internal and external cybersecurity compliance assessments and audits, ensuring quality and readiness.
Requirements: 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity or systems engineering, with at least 2 years in a governance, program management, or requirement-focused role.
Solid understanding of ISO/SAE 21434, UNECE R155, and ASPICE cybersecurity extension (SEC.1SEC.4).
Experience in requirement elicitation, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA), and traceability management.
Familiarity with automotive project lifecycles, especially in OEM-Tier1 collaboration models.
Strong organizational and documentation skills able to manage multiple streams of cybersecurity requirements and evidence across teams.
Proficiency in tools such as Polarion or Jira for requirements and task management.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both technical and customer-facing contexts.
Academic background in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
Relevant certifications (e.g., ISO/SAE 21434 Certified Professional, CISSP, PMP, or ASPICE Provisional Assessor).
Experience with vehicle architecture, ECUs, or ADAS/AV systems - advantage.
This position is open to all candidates.