Key
Responsibilities
Security
Monitoring - Security Tool Design and Development:
–Drives
security strategy, ensuring that organizational goals are met.
–Oversees
employees working on security assessments across a wide range of complex
products and services.
–Guides
the creation of testing tools and facilitates their integration into
engineering workflows, ensuring the team is equipped to identify and address
security-related weaknesses efficiently.
–Chairs
security design and evaluation (e.g., traffic capturing, alerts), ensuring
adherence to internal and external obligations, and strengthening security
posturing.
Event
Response:
–Establishes
protocols for security violation escalation, managing communication with senior
leadership and stakeholders.
–Develops
and enforces protocols to contain and mitigate security events, coordinating
cross-functional response efforts.
–Leads
post-event review meetings to identify improvement areas, ensuring feedback is
incorporated into ongoing security processes.
–Provides
guidance to stakeholders who come to the security team with security events or
concerns.
Compliance:
–Conducts
compliance assessments and coaches employees providing compliance assessments.
–Ensures
team's security compliance deliverables adhere to internal and external
obligations.
–Oversees
inventory, operability, and accountability of company assets, implementing
robust tracking systems.
Business
Continuity Support:
–Guides
the development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, processes,
and procedures.
–Ensures
the availability and resilience of critical systems and data, overseeing
efforts to withstand disruptions.
–Directs
readiness assessments for certifications and audits, implementing improvements
to meet evolving standards.
Data
Security and Privacy:
–Guides
employees on using advanced tools and techniques for data security such as
encryption, hashing, masking, and access management to ensure the
confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information.
–Oversees
the review of documentation and procedures, identifying and implementing
improvements in data security practices.
Research
and Innovation:
–Drives
industry security knowledge advancement, fostering research and innovation
efforts.
–Aligns
the team on emerging trends, ensuring shared knowledge of evolving threats and
vulnerabilities.
–Promotes
novel techniques to solve unique security problems, encouraging creative and
effective solutions.
Core
Responsibilities
Planning
& Execution:
–Manages
multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring
timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met.
–Provides
direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with
business needs.
–Guides
teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Collaboration
& Partnership:
–Drives
cross-functional partnerships to align expectations and shared objectives
across multiple teams.
–Coaches
team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders,
stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term
success.
–Promotes
inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring
others feel heard and respected.
Problem
Solving:
–Provides
direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical
issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or
information to identify solutions.
–Reviews
and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to
identify potential solutions.
Continuous
Learning:
–Models
engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry
trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning.
–Leverages
feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements.
–Identifies
skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and
knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and
coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
Continuous
Improvement:
–Drives
team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency
and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across
teams, providing oversight.
–Guides
team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages
feedback for continued improvement.
Performance
and Development:
–Drives
performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with
performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
–Discusses
development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career
development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader
organizational goals.
–Develops
and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring
promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.