Head of Product Security
Zopa
Head of Product Security
Zopa
P2P lending platform offering personal loans
The Team
Product Security sits within Information Security and works closely with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Platform and Risk. The function enables teams across Zopa to deliver change while managing Product Security risk and protecting the bank and it's customers.
As Head of Product Security, you’ll lead the function through it's next stage of maturity, owning its multi-year strategy, scaling its operating model and helping Zopa respond to a security landscape increasingly shaped by cloud technology, automation and AI. You’ll stay close to the team and the technical challenges they face, bringing hands-on expertise and credible technical leadership to help turn strategy into practical outcomes.
Own and deliver the multi-year Product Security strategy, investment roadmap and priorities.
Stay close to the team’s day-to-day work, providing hands-on technical guidance and support on complex security challenges.
Define the Product Security operating model, including team structure, capacity planning, senior hiring and succession.
Lead, grow and develop a high-performing Product Security function.
Own Product Security risk appetite, control effectiveness, executive KPIs and regulatory and audit assurance.
Act as a senior Product Security adviser to the CISO and executive Engineering, Product and Risk stakeholders.
Bring technical credibility to discussions with engineering teams, helping to shape solutions and make practical, risk-based decisions.
Set Product Security standards and drive their adoption across multiple engineering domains.
Embed Secure by Design principles into engineering and software delivery.
Prioritise investment and engineering effort according to security risk and business impact.
Use AI, automation and modern security platforms to reduce manual effort and improve security workflows.
Demonstrate improvements in security posture, risk reduction, engineering enablement and operational scalability.
Proven track record of defining and delivering Product Security strategy across a complex engineering organisation.
Significant experience leading and scaling a Product or Application Security function.
A hands-on leader who stays close to their team, understands the technical detail and can provide guidance when needed.
Deep technical knowledge of modern Application Security, Secure SDLC, DevSecOps and cloud security, with the credibility to engage and challenge engineering teams.
Experience operating in a complex, regulated technology business.
Strong people leadership, with experience designing teams, hiring senior talent and developing capability.
Experience owning and communicating Product Security risk, controls and executive-level metrics.
Able to influence senior Engineering, Product, Risk and Security leaders.
Proven ability to lead change and drive adoption across engineering teams you don’t directly manage.
Able to demonstrate measurable improvements in security and engineering outcomes.
Pragmatic, forward-thinking and comfortable balancing security risk with business and customer outcomes.
Experience with Wiz, Orca, Prisma Cloud, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, GitHub Advanced Security or equivalent platforms.
Experience automating security processes, using AI to assist with vulnerability triage and remediation, and developing LLM-enabled security tooling.
Experience reducing manual patching and repetitive security work through automation.
At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.
We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.
You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.
*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice
Diversity Statement
Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
Our approach to AI in interviews
At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out — it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we're committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopians to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.
Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.
Behavioural and competency-based interviews: please don't use AI. These conversations are designed to understand you — your experiences, your judgment, and how you've approached real situations. An AI-generated answer can't tell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whether we're the right fit for each other.
Technical interviews: it depends on the role. Some technical stages actively welcome AI use, others don't. Your Talent Partner will let you know what's expected at each stage. Where AI is part of the assessment, we'll be interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it – the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.
Zopa connects borrowers and savers through an online platform, offering personal loans, savings accounts, credit cards, and car finance in the UK. It uses a peer-to-peer lending model where individuals lend money directly to borrowers, bypassing traditional banks. The platform uses technology such as a soft credit check that does not affect credit ratings and can pre-approve loans quickly, often within 12 seconds. Revenue comes from loan fees and by offering other financial products. Zopa differentiates itself by being a pioneer in UK P2P lending, leveraging fast digital workflows, direct lending between individuals, and a range of products, all under regulatory oversight (PRA). Its goal is to provide better value loans and investments by making lending and saving more efficient and accessible through technology.
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