Head of Product and Identity Security
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define and operationalise product and identity security strategy, roadmap, and metrics. You will lead a global team while remaining hands-on across application, cloud, AI, architecture, identity, penetration testing, and vulnerability operations. You will embed security into products, manage security incidents and external partners, and communicate risk and investment priorities to executives and engineering leaders.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of cybersecurity experience
- At least 5 years in a comparable leadership role
- Hands-on security engineering background
- Application or mobile penetration testing
- AI security
- Agentic security
- Machine learning
- Threat modelling
- Security enablement and security champions programmes
- Strategy and programme operationalisation
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership of distributed teams
- Spoken and written communication
Responsibilities
- Define and operationalise product and identity security strategy and roadmap
- Lead, coach, and grow a global security team
- Own application security, including secure design reviews, threat modelling, secure coding standards, tooling, and remediation
- Run web, mobile, and infrastructure penetration testing
- Own cloud security posture, workload protection, detection coverage, and engineering guardrails
- Set the approach to AI, agentic, and machine-learning security
- Embed security requirements in product, platform, and integration architecture
- Own the identity platform and IAM roadmap
- Run vulnerability operations with triage and remediation service levels
- Communicate security risk, trade-offs, and investment cases to leaders
- Deliver security enablement and security champions programmes
- Act as an escalation point during high-severity security incidents
- Recruit, onboard, mentor, and manage team performance
- Define and report programme metrics
Benefits
- Share options
- Annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
- Paid and unpaid sabbatical options
- Salary sacrifice benefits
- Cycle to Work discounts
- Private family health insurance
- Accident and life insurance
- Mental wellbeing support
- Pension scheme
- Paid volunteering days
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually
- Home office setup contribution
- Laptop ownership
- Daily breakfast
- Coffee, tea, and juices
- Remote work support
