- 10+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Release Management, Engineering Operations, or a similar technical cross-functional role, with a track record of operating at Director-level scope as an individual contributor
- Prior startup experience and thrive in high-growth, fast-moving environments where ambiguity is the norm and you’re expected to build structure rather than inherit it.
- Highly autonomous who has run the whole show owning the operating cadence, cross-functional execution, executive reporting, prioritization, and accountability across a broad engineering organization.
- Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end planning and execution for the most complex engineering initiatives, spanning multiple teams and organizations
- Strong technical fluency and systems thinking, especially in engineering process, release workflows, operational reporting, and execution management
- Proven ability to drive accountability, coordination, and follow-through across an entire engineering organization without direct authority
- Track record of defining success metrics, tracking execution health, and turning operational signals into clear, executive-level reporting and decision support
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience owning monthly and quarterly business reviews, executive-facing updates, and cross-functional status reporting
- Deep familiarity with Jira-based workflows, reporting, and process hygiene at scale
- Strong judgment in prioritization, escalation, and leadership support in ambiguous or fast-moving situations, with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders
- Comfort using automation and AI to improve reporting quality, operating efficiency, and recurring workflow execution
- Experience owning QBRs, executive reporting, and engineering metrics programs at the org or company level
- Familiarity with DORA-style metrics, SLO/SLA thinking, release hygiene, and delivery scorecards
- Experience building AI-assisted dashboards, automations, or reporting systems
- Experience working in security, SaaS, endpoint, platform, or infrastructure-heavy environments
- Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations
- Prior experience operating at Director or Principal level as an individual contributor (not a people manager)
- Located in the Eastern Timezone to support our Global team.
Joining Cyberhaven means joining the team building Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise. Traditional tools fall short. Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data, adapting protection to changing context, so protection moves with the way people actually work, not against it. AI Changed Work. We Protect It. Backed by $250M from leading investors like Khosla and Redpoint, our team includes leaders who built industry-defining technologies at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Meta, Google, and more.
This role lets you shape the future of data security, working alongside people driven to protect workflows, not just data, for customers who cannot afford to slow down to stay safe.
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