Sr. Director InfoSec, Data Protection (Remote)

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role:

CrowdStrike is looking for a Senior Director of Cybersecurity to lead its internal Data Protection team. In this role, you will be a key leader on the internal Cybersecurity team. You will work closely with the CISO, Senior Leadership, Business owners and our product/services organizations to provide a world class first line of defense for the business. As the Data Protection leader, you will lead a multidisciplinary team focused on identifying and categorizing data, and driving data protection strategies throughout the data lifecycle. Additionally, the leader in this role will partner to establish a robust strategy to enable secure business growth.
  

What You'll Do:

• Effectively manage a data protection organization ensuring they are consistently delivering against a high standard of quality, meeting compliance/regulatory requirements.

• Update the company’s data protection strategy; establish and meet/exceed key SLA / KRI / KPI.

• Lead data protection efforts during tabletop and/or incident response activities, effectively communicating to executive leadership and coordinating business response efforts with appropriate crisis teams.

• Proactively partner with peers and business leaders to develop and execute program strategies ensuring appropriate, timely and cost effective data protection coverage of new and emerging use cases.

• Hire, retain, and develop the next generation of cyber talent in alignment with the global talent and cybersecurity strategies. 

• Lead CRWD for CRWD efforts pertaining to data protection; work directly with product and engineering teams to adopt and adapt the latest CrowdStrike technologies into our CSIRT as customer 0. 

• Produce high-quality written and verbal reports, presentations, recommendations, and findings to key stakeholders including customer management, regulators, and legal counsel.

• Demonstrate industry thought leadership through blog posts, CrowdCasts, customer discussions and other public speaking events 
   

What You’ll Need:

• Experience leading data protection teams composed of multiple functions. 

• Deep domain expertise and experience in cybersecurity.

• Strong business acumen and executive presence with the demonstrated ability to communicate highly technical information to non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrated experience building cybersecurity strategy and organizing an operational team to deliver effectively against it.

• Detail-oriented, organized, self-motivated, hardworking team player with excellent interpersonal skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required, including experience meeting with and presenting information to senior leadership.

• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving scenario.
   

Bonus Points: 

• Experience and expertise with the Falcon platform and products.

• Capable of leading teams of highly motivated technical analysts.

• Ability to lead teams through high stress situations.

• Strong project management skills.

• Contributing thought leader within the incident response industry.

• Ability to foster a positive work environment and attitude.

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This role will require the candidate to periodically undergo and pass additional background and fingerprint check(s) consistent with government customer requirements.

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