VP, Product Security

Warner Bros Games; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media and entertainment company is seeking a Vice President, Product & Application Security to lead security strategies for its direct-to-consumer platforms. This role is crucial for protecting customer data and ensuring application resilience. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in application security, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the ability to influence executive stakeholders. This position offers hybrid work options and opportunities to shape security innovation in a world-class environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Diverse and inclusive workforce

Qualifications

• Proven success securing large-scale, consumer-facing platforms with millions of global users.
• Extensive cybersecurity experience leading product security for digital media products.
• Expertise in cloud-native security and API security.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global product security strategy for DTC platforms.
• Champion secure-by-design principles in application development.
• Oversee security design reviews and incident response.

Skills

Deep DTC and Application Security Expertise

Product Security Leadership

Cloud & Platform Mastery

Customer Trust Mindset

Executive Presence

Team Builder

Job description

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role:

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is seeking a visionary Vice President, Product & Application Security to lead the security strategy and execution for its world-class Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) portfolio — including HBOMax, Discovery+, CNN streaming, and other flagship digital products.

This executive will be accountable for protecting millions of global customers’ data, securing complex application architectures, and ensuring the resilience of revenue-generating systems in a rapidly evolving, high-scale environment. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in application security, including secure software development practices, threat modeling, code analysis, and vulnerability management across large-scale distributed systems.

As a key member of WBD’s Global Information & Content Security leadership team, you will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business executives to embed security into every phase of application and product development — from concept and architecture through deployment and operations. You will drive a culture of security-first innovation, ensuring that WBD’s applications and digital experiences are both secure and seamless for a global audience.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of secure streaming and digital engagement through leadership in both product and application security for one of the world’s most recognized media companies.

Your Role Accountabilities:

Product Security Strategy & Execution:

• Define and lead the global product security strategy across Discovery+, CNN, and other DTC platforms
• Translate cybersecurity requirements into scalable, business-aligned solutions
• Prioritize investments and roadmap initiatives based on risk and business impact

Secure Architecture & Engineering Enablement:

• Champion secure-by-design and secure-by-default principles, ensuring that security patterns and controls are integrated throughout the application and product development lifecycle
• Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to design and implement secure application architectures, protecting consumer-facing technologies at scale
• Drive adoption of threat modeling, secure coding, code reviews, and secure deployment practices across global development teams
• Partner with platform engineering to automate security testing and vulnerability management within CI/CD pipelines

Risk Management, Compliance & Incident Response:

• Oversee application and product security design reviews, architecture assessments, penetration testing, vulnerability management, monitoring, and 24x7 incident response for all DTC platforms
• Ensure comprehensive visibility into application-layer risks, including API security, identity management, and data protection
• Partner with Privacy, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure adherence to GDPR, CCPA, and other global data protection regulations
• Provide executive-level reporting on application security posture, threat readiness, and overall risk management metrics

Executive Influence & Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as a security thought leader and trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, and DTC business executives
• Represent Product & Application Security in key governance forums, steering committees, and board-level discussions
• Advocate for security as a business enabler, ensuring that protection measures support customer trust, brand reputation, and revenue growth
• Partner with DevOps, Cloud, and Infrastructure leaders to ensure end-to-end security coverage from application through platform layers

Talent Leadership & Team Building:

• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing global team of application security engineers, architects, and product security leaders
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement within the Product & Application Security function
• Lead workforce planning to scale with evolving platform architectures, emerging threats, and business needs
• Promote cross-functional training and career growth to deepen application security expertise across all product teams

Qualifications & Experiences:

• Deep DTC and Application Security Expertise: Proven success securing large-scale, consumer-facing platforms (streaming, media, or subscription-based services) with millions of global users
• Product Security Leadership: Extensive cybersecurity experience, including significant experience leading product security for high-growth DTC, OTT, or digital media products
• Cloud & Platform Mastery: Expertise in cloud-native security (AWS/GCP/Azure), API security, CI/CD pipeline protection, and DRM/content protection
• Customer Trust Mindset: Strong understanding of data privacy and compliance frameworks and how to embed them in customer experience design
• Innovation & Agility: Ability to balance security requirements with rapid product development and competitive time-to-market
• Executive Presence: Skilled at influencing C-suite stakeholders and presenting security risks and strategies in business terms
• Team Builder: Demonstrated success building, scaling, and inspiring global, high-performing security engineering teams

If you:

• Are excited to work in an international, fast-paced, multi-faceted media company
• Are comfortable ensuring timely escalation, responsiveness and follow-through to meet deadlines
• Are knowledgeable of, and understand, the risk-based business impact approach to cybersecurity
• Are actively questioning and influencing actions needed to attain goals and targets
• Are comfortable driving forward without having direct control of staff

Then help us create the future with one of the world’s largest media & entertainment companies.

Hybrid Working

This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

Additional Information

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroom here.

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.