Security Strategy Lead

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Description

Our Enterprise Information Protection (EIP) team is seeking a Security Strategy Lead who is passionate about developing our 'North Star' vision to help our team focus on what matters most and deliver the most value to our customers.

The Security Strategy Lead will be responsible for the end-to-end EIP strategic planning and management process, consulting with security leadership to develop measurable and outcome-focused objectives and key results (OKRs) for the organization, measuring and monitoring the health of our strategy, and driving continuous improvement to our strategic planning and management processes. They will have the unique benefit of collaborating across the whole spectrum of our cyber security organization and directly contributing to goals with Board-level visibility.

Responsibilities


Continuously analyze and synthesize strategic planning inputs and opportunities including business and IT strategic goals, evolving threat landscape, emerging technology trends, cyber risks and compliance requirements, cyber metrics, leading industry standards and benchmarking, etc.
Manage and facilitate the EIP strategic planning and development process; continuously mature and integrate repeatable strategic planning across the organization
Partner with key leaders and stakeholders to develop longer term and near term organizational-level goals that are measurable and outcome-focused leveraging the objectives and key results (OKR) framework and roadmaps
Partner with portfolio teams to connect strategic OKRs to execution plans and help set strategic context and vision during planning sessions
Measure and monitor progress of strategic OKRs; review and report OKR progress to senior leadership and teams for visibility and alignment
Manage EIP strategic communication and change management process
Act as OKR Ambassador for EIP organization; includes participating in OKR Community of Practice and coaching EIP teams to write and set 'good' OKRs


Requirements:


Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field or 8 years' equivalent experience in security industry, technology, and process knowledge
Demonstrated experience leading strategic planning and developing outcome-centric strategic goals (e.g., objectives and key results)
Highly collaborative, flexible, and team-oriented working style; ability to interact and drive meaningful conversations with senior leadership and peers
Change leadership - demonstrated success promoting change by helping others to change and remove barriers
Consulting skills - able to assimilate business knowledge and knowledge of internal customer's unique needs/situation
Analytical skills to evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements
Strategic communicator - able to simplify the complex with proven experience presenting to top level executives
Prior experience working in Lean-Agile teams and environments


Desired Qualifications:


Industry security certification (e.g., CISSP)
Industry Agile certification (e.g., SAFe Agilist)
Industry project management certification (e.g., PMP)
Industry cloud certification (e.g., AWS Cloud Practitioner)
Knowledge or experience leading security maturity efforts (e.g., leveraging CMMI)
Working knowledge of WorkBoard platform


Additional Information

Will report to Director, Cyber Data Protection Management, EIP-Cyber Capability Maturity

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Company info

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