Whoop7mo ago

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Product Security

United States·Bostonsenior

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At WHOOP, we're on a mission to unlock human performance and healthspan. WHOOP empowers members to perform at a higher level and live longer through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. Protecting our members’ data and ensuring our systems scale securely and reliably is core to this mission.

As a Senior Software Engineering Manager at WHOOP, you will play a critical leadership role as part of our cross-functional Platform organization. You will build, lead, and grow multiple teams responsible for protecting the security and privacy of our members by driving secure development practices, managing product-facing security programs, and building scalable security solutions.

In addition to core product security responsibilities, you will be responsible for collaborating closely with cross-functional partners across Product, Software, Legal, and Compliance to achieve and maintain HIPAA compliance across WHOOP’s products and infrastructure. We are seeking a leader with prior experience helping an organization transition into HIPAA-compliant standards, capable of aligning technical execution with regulatory and business objectives.

On the people management side, you will manage and mentor a team of engineers, provide regular performance feedback, and ensure professional development and growth. You will work to foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning. You are responsible for promoting a positive work environment where all team members feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work.

Build, lead, and grow multiple engineering teams executing on WHOOP’s product security strategy, including member authentication, vulnerability management, cloud governance, privacy rights fulfillment, and threat modeling.

Oversee and drive WHOOP’s engineering readiness for HIPAA compliance, coordinating technical implementation, evidence collection, and ongoing governance activities across teams.

Define and communicate long-term security strategy, architecture, and design principles for product-facing systems.

Partner with engineering and compliance leadership to embed security and privacy by design across the software development lifecycle.

Establish and enforce best practices, standards, and processes for secure software development, testing, and deployment.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance team productivity, quality, and overall business impact.

Provide mentorship, guidance, and career development for engineering managers and individual contributors.

Foster a culture of innovation, teamwork, psychological safety, and continuous learning within the Product Security organization.

Proven experience as a technical leader managing multiple teams or a growing security engineering organization.

Experience growing high level individual contributor career growth at the staff level or higher.

Demonstrated success leading security or compliance initiatives in a regulated environment, preferably HIPAA or other health data compliance frameworks.

Deep understanding of product security principles, including vulnerability management, data privacy, threat modeling, and secure software development.

Experience building or integrating developer security tooling to improve secure-by-default practices.

Strong technical background in software development, testing, and deployment processes.

Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams and levels.

Experience with AWS cloud environments and data-driven decision-making.

Hands-on experience with infrastructure and cloud security in containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Background in incident response and post-mortem analysis for security events.

Familiarity with automation frameworks for vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, or infrastructure security.

Prior experience scaling a product security or compliance engineering organization through major regulatory transitions (e.g., SOC 2 → HIPAA, or HIPAA → HITRUST).

You’re a strategic and people-focused leader who thrives on balancing hands-on technical oversight with long-term organizational growth.

You have experience building and scaling teams to meet new regulatory and business demands.

You’re passionate about creating secure, privacy-first systems that protect member data and enable innovation.

You collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams and can operate confidently in both strategic and tactical domains.

Above all, you believe that security and compliance are enablers of innovation, and you lead by fostering a culture that supports both speed and safety.