Job SummaryThis role is responsible for enabling risk-informed decision making, clear accountability, and consistent control governance across business, IT, cloud, and third-party environments. The ideal candidate will bring strong judgment, the ability to operate across organizational boundaries, and experience building and scaling GRC capabilities in complex environments.
Duties and Responsibilities (other duties as assigned)- Establishing and operating the enterprise cybersecurity risk management program, including risk identification, prioritization, and tracking
- Defining and enforcing risk acceptance, escalation, and accountability frameworks
- Developing executive and board-level risk reporting aligned to business impact
- Defining and governing cybersecurity policies, standards, and control frameworks aligned to industry standard frameworks•
- Ensuring consistent control implementation and enforcement across IT, cloud, and business environments
- Leading exception management processes to ensure risk is explicitly understood and accepted at the right levels
- Establishing and leading the third-party risk management program, including vendor tiering and assessments
- Coordinating regulatory and audit engagements (internal and external)
- Partnering across Security, IT, Legal, Compliance, and Procurement (among others as relevant) to align risk and control expectations• Establishing and governing the cybersecurity awareness and training program, ensuring it is aligned to enterprise risk and tailored user roles
- Overseeing control validation, testing, and assurance activities• Ensuring governance of vulnerability management, logging, and detection capabilities•
- Driving continuous improvement through risk insights, incident learnings, and control effectiveness reviews
- Managing and optimizing budget and resources to support governance, risk, and compliance capabilities
Education, Experience & Certifications- 6-10+ years of experience in cybersecurity risk management
- Proven leadership experience in building, scaling, and maturing teams and operating models
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical risk into business impact and action
- Experience building or maturing GRC programs in complex organizations
- Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and stakeholder alignment
- Experience supporting or leading SOX ITGC and/or application control environments in a complex organization
- Experience establishing or evolving security awareness and behavior change programs
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders
- Experience working with third-party risk, audit, and compliance functions
Functional Skills- Proven leadership experience in building, scaling, and maturing teams and operating models
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity control frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical risk into business impact and action
- Strong judgment in prioritization, tradeoff decisions, and stakeholder alignment
- Experience supporting or leading SOX ITGC and/or application control environments in a complex organization
- Experience establishing or evolving security awareness and behavior change programs
- Excellent communication skills and ability to influence across technical and business stakeholders
- Experience working with third-party risk, audit, and compliance functions
