Senior Director of Subject Matter Expert – CTEM, RBVM, ASPM – Risk Operation Center (ROC)

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Job Description: Senior Director of Subject Matter Expert – CTEM, RBVM, ASPM – Risk Operation Center (ROC) Date posted: March 2026 About the job Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world! Senior Director of Subject Matter Expert – CTEM, RBVM, CAASM – Risk Operation Center Location: Foster City, CA, USA Organization: Product GTM & SME Reports To: SVP of Product Management Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Director – Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead deep technical expertise and field architecture & deployment for the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform and Risk Operations Center (ROC) operating model. This role is a hands-on technical SME leadership position responsible for driving the architecture, deployment strategy, and customer adoption of Qualys exposure management solutions including: • Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) • Risk Operations Center (ROC) • Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) • VMDR (Vulnerability Management Detection & Response) • CyberSecurity Asset Management (CSAM) • External Attack Surface Management (EASM) The Senior Director will serve as a technical authority and practitioner working directly with engineering, product management, and enterprise customers to operationalize Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) and modern risk-centric security operations - ROC This role will lead a small elite team of 5–6 technical SMEs responsible for architecture guidance, field enablement, customer advisory, leading POC/POV and feedback into the product roadmap. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership & Architecture Act as the deep technical authority for Qualys exposure management architecture including: • ETM risk correlation and prioritization • ROC operational workflows • Vulnerability management and remediation orchestration • ASPM & CNAPP integration to Exposure Management Platform (ETM) • Cross-domain exposure analytics across infrastructure, cloud, identity, and applications Design and guide enterprise implementations that integrate: • VMDR vulnerability telemetry • Asset intelligence from CSAM • External attack surface data from EASM • Cloud posture insights from TotalCloud • Application security insights from ASPM / TotalAppSec • 3rd Party (Non-Qualys) Ecosystems such as CNAPP, AppSec, IoT/OT, Identity, CMDB, etc. Lead the development of reference architectures and deployment models for large global enterprises. Outbound Customer and Sales enablement Responsibilities: Develop sales enablement collateral, including customer product presentations, decks and demo scripts. Help develop messaging and product positioning in collaboration with PM and PMMs leads. Research the competitive landscape, determine how competitors are positioned and develop optimized positioning strategies and support documents for the CTEM, CAASM, CRQ, and RBVM. Educate the sales team on how to address competitors in the field with Qualys’ unique positioning. Develop collateral and be an expert on CTEM and RBVM technology and terminology. Be an expert in explaining the product to sales and be involved with demos and presentations to customers. Foster strong relationships with customers to gather feedback, understand pain points, and translate insights into product requirements. Design, deliver, and train the Qualys Sales Team on value-based demonstration of our products Hands-On Platform Expertise Work directly with engineering and product teams to: • Prototype new ETM and ROC capabilities • Validate exposure management workflows • Test integrations with DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD environments • Provide technical feedback on product architecture and scalability Provide deep expertise in: • Vulnerability lifecycle management • Exposure prioritization and TruRisk scoring • Attack path analysis • Cyber Risk quantification ... (truncated, view full listing at source)