Senior Director of Cybersecurity

About the role

The Senior Director of Cybersecurity reports to the CIO and leads a risk‑based cybersecurity program that protects company assets while enabling innovation, international growth, and regulatory compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise cybersecurity strategy, roadmap, standards and policies.
• Oversee security architecture, threat management, vulnerability management, cyber resilience and incident response.
• Lead internal cybersecurity teams, contractors and global security professionals.
• Manage relationships with managed security service providers, MDR providers, penetration testing firms and other consultants.
• Establish governance processes, reporting mechanisms and executive dashboards for the CIO, General Counsel and Cybersecurity Risk Committee.
• Support adoption of security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST and CIS Controls.

Required profile

• Proven senior leadership experience in cybersecurity within a large, multi‑national organization.
• Experience working with executive leadership, legal, privacy, infrastructure and application development stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop security professionals globally.

Required skills

• Enterprise security architecture
• Threat management
• Vulnerability management
• Cyber resilience
• Incident response and crisis management
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Third‑party security risk management
• Security governance
• ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Controls frameworks
• MDR, SIEM, EDR and threat‑intelligence services