Product Director, Security Data Services

Company Description

The Security Data Services Product Director is responsible for diving deep with business stakeholders internal and external to Cyber Security and developing a data strategy that supports NBCU’s Cyber Security goals. As a Product Director, you will develop service strategy and roadmaps and devise organizational plans to scale the team and capabilities to meet the data needs of a growing Cyber Security organization in a dynamic enterprise landscape.

Responsible for the full product lifecycle, you will engage with business stakeholders to understand the types and sources of data available for Cyber Security and build approachable service offerings that focus on building business value for all NBCU. Working closely with engineering management to determine service priorities, you will develop processes and business rhythms to ensure roadmap timelines are met and product staff are accountable for results.

Job Description

You will:

• Develop, plan, and implement a strategy for continually evolving our logging and analytics capabilities in support of our overall NBCUniversal Cyber Security vision. Create a roadmap, track, and report on progress.
• Partner with the technical operations teams to enhance, maintain and sustain our logging security platforms, including a large Splunk environment and supporting systems. Deliver security services smoothly in a global, 24x7 enterprise.
• Work with architects and engineers to understand needs and build the tech for your roadmap to meaningfully move the needle for our security capabilities. Lead and influence design, development, and implementation across teams.
• Understand and empathize with our Cyber Security stakeholders (such as NBC News, Universal Pictures, and Parks & Resorts). Ensure our services are real solutions that help our businesses deliver world-class content and experiences - securely.
• Be a point of a contact for engagement and escalations and drive service SLA compliance along with key milestones which properly managing stakeholder expectations.
• Develop product staff to and build an organizational structure to support long-range plans and drive strategy.
• Mentor engineers and other technologists to develop NBCUniversal’s security mindset. Help them understand the domain, ask hard questions, think strategically, and grow as security professionals.

You need:

• Deep understanding of the business applications of data platforms, products, and concepts in the logging and detection space such as SIEMs, text search systems, event graphs, message buses, log aggregation tools, and data transfer methods
• Understanding of the state of the security industry and applicable trends and market opportunities
• Strong communication abilities, a desire to build consensus, and a comfort relaying technical and security principles and decisions to a wide range of audiences
• Experience designing and operating security tools and services at enterprise-scale, including on-prem, hybrid, and public-cloud environments
• Comfort engaging in deeply technical efforts while keeping a strategic view and staying focused on key goals
• An understanding of security risk and a willingness to make risk-based decisions balancing the urgent and the important
• A thirst for improvement and an inclination to thoughtfully challenge the status quo
• Desire to try things and iterate on them, fail fast, and focus on features that matter

Bonus points for:

• Hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise in a large, complex deployment
• Direct experience building systems in AWS and using devops toolchains including Git, Terraform, and Ansible
• Understanding threat intelligence, ATT&CK framework, Cyber Kill Chain, or the Pyramid of Pain, and how they fit into developing internal security strategy
• Orchestrating security tools across complex environments to improve IR and investigations
• Data-driven decision making, light data analytics, and metrics/data visualization
• Comfort with scripting or software development
• Exposure to security compliance requirements/frameworks such as ISO27001, PCI/DSS, NIST 800-53, etc.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $200,000.

Additional Information

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy,