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Summary:

This role is responsible for leading and overseeing the planning, execution, and management of the Information Security workforce and talent strategy. The Security Workforce Strategy Principal develops, reviews, and analyzes workforce and talent performance against organizational benchmarks and key performce indicators (KPIs) to evaluate effectiveness, provide actionable insights, identify workforce and talent risk, and drive continuous improvement. They lead the design, development, and execution of strategies to address security workforce and talent needs leveraging current workforce data, organizational objectives, and emerging industry threats and trends. They collaborate closely with multiple internal and external stakeholders (Security senior leadership, HR, Talent, etc.) to manage and lead initiatives for skills development, talent attraction and retention, and talent pipelining to ensure the security workforce is equipped with strategic cyber security competencies and promotes career mobility within the organization. They are expected to have a deep understanding of the Information Security domains in which they are aligned. They play a key expert role in defining Information Security workforce principles and best practices. They act as a subject matter expert for Information Security workforce and talent strategy and participate in senior leadership meetings to bring Information Security perspective to company-wide practices.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership in developing strategies to address security workforce and talent needs leveraging current workforce data, organizational objectives, and emerging industry trends and threats.

• Collaborates with Talent Acquisition, HR, and Finance to develop and implement strategies to attract, hire, and retain top cyber talent and cultivate talent pipelines for critical roles, including junior talent pipelines.

• Manages and leads initiatives for skills development, including training and certification programs, to ensure Security workforce is equipped with the latest cybersecurity competencies and to promote career mobility within the organization.

• Manages and leads on-going prioritization and allocation of Security workforce to effectively achieve organizational objectives and ensure operational efficiency.

• Formulates methodologies to monitor, assess, and analyze Security workforce and talent performance against organizational benchmarks and KPIs to evaluate effectiveness, provide actionable insights, identify risk, and drive continuous improvement.

• Deliver clear and comprehensive reporting that summarizes Security workforce and talent performance, outcomes, risks, and strategic insights to Security leadership to ensure transparent communication and drive proactive, informed decision-making.

• Guides, coaches, and mentors Security leaders, team members, and peers to drive awareness and adoption of Enterprise and Security workforce and talent processes and guardrails.

• Continuously analyzes the effectiveness of the workforce and talent strategy and recommends and implements improvements to ensure it remains relevant and effective.

• Leads Security workforce and talent planning and analysis activities in partnership with Security leadership and partners (Talent, HR, Sourcing, Finance, etc.) to provide strategic and tactical direction and align to organizational objectives.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

Preferred Certifications:

• Industry Agile certification (e.g., SAFe Agilist, SAFe LPM, etc.)

• Industry project management certification (e.g., PMP, etc.)

• Change management certification (e.g., Prosci, etc.)

• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

• Certification in Information Security Strategy Management (CISM)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• CompTIA Security + Certification

• Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

• TS-SCI Security Clearance Certification

Work Experience:

• 8+ years of directly-related or relevant experience, preferably in in