Manager, AI Runtime Security

Core Responsibilities 1.

About Vanguard (Contractors Restricted)

Vanguard At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients.

To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team.

From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.

We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Responsibilities

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew.
• Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew.
• Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• 2.
• Leads the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of application and product security capabilities across multiple systems, applications, or product families throughout the product lifecycle.
• 3.
• Provides technical expertise for application security, influencing secure architecture and design decisions and ensuring alignment with enterprise security standards and industry best practices.
• 4.
• Oversees complex application security assessments, including threat modeling and advanced code reviews, and drives risk‑based remediation strategies across product teams.
• 5.
• Leads the evaluations and prioritization of application security risks across supported products, providing expert guidance on remediation approaches and security trade‑offs.
• 6.
• Leads the integration of new security features, patches, and platform‑level enhancements into existing products, ensuring security solutions scale effectively and are consistently applied.
• Provides sustained technical leadership and mentorship to application security and engineering peers, sharing expertise, reviewing work products, and elevating secure development practices.
• Collaborates with product, engineering, and security stakeholders to continuously improve product security posture, identify emerging threats, and recommend enhancements to security tools, processes, and capabilities.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of five years related work experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Preferred

• Graduate degree preferred.

Benefits

• To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives.