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Security Product Owner

Vermelo RPOManchester🇬🇧United Kingdom

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Employment typeFull Time

Work modeHybrid

LocationManchester, United Kingdom

Continuous Improvement

Job description

Security Product Owner

This is a hybrid role with the requirement to work 2 days a week from either our Manchester, Stoke, Peterborough or Tunbridge Wells office.

Role Purpose

The Security Product Owner is responsible for owning, prioritising, and delivering security products and services that protect the organisation while enabling business objectives. The role ensures that security capabilities (e.g., identity, endpoint protection, cloud security, detection tooling) are managed as products, with clear value, defined roadmaps, and measurable outcomes. It translates security strategy into actionable backlogs, prioritised delivery, and continuous improvement.

The position is accountable for ensuring value realisation in security tooling investment, security controls are usable, effective, consistent across the estate and aligned with business and technology needs, maximising adoption and risk reduction.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end lifecycle of security products and services (e.g., IAM, EDR, SIEM, cloud security).
Define and maintain the product vision, roadmap, and backlog
Ensure delivery of measurable outcomes, including risk reduction, control coverage and user adoption.
Balance competing priorities across risk, usability, cost, and technical feasibility.
Define, refine, and prioritise product backlog items, ensuring alignment to objectives.
Work with engineering and delivery teams to ensure timely and effective implementation.
Ensure clear definition of acceptance criteria and outcomes for delivered capabilities.
Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders using or impacted by security products.
Ensure security products support policy, regulatory, and control requirements
Work with GRC teams to ensure controls are auditable, effective, and aligned to risk appetite.
Manage relationships with security vendors and service providers, ensuring they meet service, performance, and security expectations.
Identify opportunities to enhance, simplify, or automate security capabilities.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

Experience in product ownership, product management, or service ownership.
Strong understanding of product lifecycle management backlog management and prioritisation.
Ability to define clear product outcomes and success criteria.
Good understanding of information security principles and controls, including: IDAM, endpoint and network security, cloud and platform security, threat detection and response.
Ability to make prioritisation decisions based on data and business needs.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical security concepts into business-friendly language.
Ability to influence and manage stakeholders across multiple functions.
Ability to manage conflicting priorities and expectations.

About Us

Markerstudy Group Services Limited is one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK. With a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market, we specialise in niche motor cover, where our solid market knowledge and experience enables us to create highly targeted products.

Our success is underpinned by our underwriting strategy to identify and apply special risk factors to the customers' advantage. That, and our skilled underwriting technicians who are friendly, accessible and empowered to make decisions.

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