Head of Cybersecurity Training Production

Hi, Cybersecurity Training Creation and Development Leaders! Are you passionate about building and leading a talented cybersecurity team to create the world’s best and most effective cybersecurity training? Do you want to be part of the team striving to close the talent gap in cybersecurity today? Are you looking to work in a culture with a high degree of transparency, where people work collaboratively and passionately as a team? Are you excited about being scrappy, always innovating to find creative, practical, and efficient solutions? This opportunity might be for you!

OffSec provides indispensable cybersecurity training and resources globally.  We help organizations reduce their cybersecurity risks through their people, as we believe cybersecurity is fundamentally a people problem.  Our proven, hands-on training enables organizations to attract, upskill, develop, and retain cybersecurity talent. Our mission is to help the world fight cyberthreat. We serve over 70% of the fortune 500 companies worldwide, many governments, and our learners are from over 150 countries.  We believe real learning happens by doing and through failures. We embrace the growth mindset. We practice transparency. We work in a fully distributed way with team members in over 40 countries.  We believe in working hard and having fun, recognizing the importance of mental wellbeing. We value the infosec community, offering Kali Linux as a free tool for the entire industry.

We operate with speed, urgency and a clear focus on business results.

Our business is growing and needs individuals with the grit to inspire, craft, and execute amazing new visions for our training product portfolio. Come be a part of the leadership team and help create the future of indispensable cybersecurity training and resources.

Excited about our mission and what we do? Apply and join us!

Responsibilities

• Build teams
• Inspire through leadership
• Develop and implement efficient processes and metrics to produce quality training content with the highest efficiency
• Produce effective and delightful training content for a wide range of job roles
• Evolve and scale the content creation business model to meet the business needs 
• Develop and execute a comprehensive content strategy that aligns with business goals and objectives 
• Create the long-term vision for content and oversee the production and delivery of all content
• Manage budgets, project timelines, external vendors, and content creators
• Create and manage all content guidelines, policies, and standards
• Collaborate with other departments to ensure that content efforts are integrated and aligned with overall business goals
• Embrace the growth mindset
• Make life better and fun for teams

Practical Skills

• Leading - We’re eager to learn, grow, and deliver. Empower people to learn through sharing, taking measured risks, challenging the complacency mentality from past successes, being more entrepreneurial, and innovating. Provide psychological safety to allow failure to be inspiring and educational. Care about your teams as people to nurture them and keep them happy. Go out of your way to help other teams do their job easier and better by leveraging the unique and quality content we have.
• Recruiting - Being able to work with our recruiting staff to identify, attract, screen, interview, and bring in amazingly wonderful humans to create content for us, whether as full time staff or independent contracting authors
• Improve Processes - We’re always looking for continuous improvement. Finding areas where our processes can be improved is in our nature and must be passionately pursued and persisted, especially in the world we live in today with abundant talent throughout the world, and AI that can automate or augment so much of what we do in our daily tasks
• Embrace Data Driven Approach to Scaling - Metrics and data become critical in scaling efficiently.  Use data to measure outcomes. At the same time, be aware when data does not tell the whole story.  
• Act with Urgency - Be results oriented, biased towards actions with a clear focus on measurable business outcomes. Act with urgency, with well thought out plans and execution.  When results are not achieved, pivot quickly to find workable, practical, creative solutions to deliver the best business outcomes possible.
• Drive Impact - Content is at the core of what we offer.  The Content team is the subject matter experts in the content we create. Act as a compassionate advisor and consultant to the other departments within the company. Provide advice without blaming others, act with humility to encourage true collaboration.  All teams in a