Senior Director, Global Cyber Defense

Role overview

Lead a global cyber defense organization responsible for preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across a large, distributed business. The remit spans incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and insider threat, with close partnership across executive leadership and operational teams. The role also sets strategy and builds scalable, resilient security services.

Responsibilities - Align cyber defense strategy with business objectives in partnership with the chief security executive and other senior leaders. - Direct incident response, including investigation, containment, countermeasures, and recovery from attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches. - Coordinate responders and internal partners, and work with external law enforcement when needed. - Lead insider threat investigations in collaboration with Legal, Fraud, Human Resources, and other stakeholders. - Advance threat detection by evaluating technologies and techniques, and guide threat intelligence collection and analysis. - Mature engineering-led defense services and processes, set service expectations, strengthen operational resilience, and develop security managers and engineers.

Requirements - 15 or more years of cyber defense experience, including at least 10 years in cloud-native environments. - At least 10 years of people management experience in a security organization. - Experience leading global incident response and security operations teams at technology companies. - Deep technical expertise across cyber defense functions, including familiarity with SIEM platforms and their implementation. - Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. - Proven ability to build effective partnerships across IT, Legal, Compliance, Human Resources, and business teams, and to operate in a fast-paced, diverse environment.

Benefits and work setup - Compensation includes location-adjusted base pay and the opportunity for equity grants. - Benefits for regular employees include retirement plan matching, paid parental leave, wellness and commuter benefits, paid time off, and paid sick leave.