Director, Supply Chain Security

 

 

An Amazing Career Opportunity for a Director Supply Chain Security!! 

Location: Remote (US)

Job ID: 47557

 

 

As part of the Product Security and Privacy team, you will own and lead the corporate-wide Product Supply Chain Security program.

 

You will lead a team that will establish and operationalize the standards, policies, and technical capabilities required to ensure the integrity, security, and trustworthiness of software from development through build, distribution, and deployment across a diverse portfolio of products and environments.

Accountable for the consistency, scalability, and defensibility of supply chain security practices, you will ensure that controls are not only defined but effectively implemented and enforced in partnership with IT and Information Security teams.

 

You will operate at a strategic level, building and leading a team responsible for securing source code, build systems, third-party components, and deployment environments, while enabling product teams to adopt secure-by-design practices through standardized architectures and processes.

 

Who are we? 

HID powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,500 worldwide employees. Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo 

 

 

As our Director Supply Chain Security, you’ll support HID’s success by: 

• Defining and maintaining the enterprise Supply Chain Security framework, including policies, standards, and processes governing source code, building systems, artifacts, and deployment environments.
• Establishing and enforcing standards for secure storage, accessing, and transferring of source code, including repository protections, branching controls, and access governance.
• Defining and maintaining the enterprise Supply Chain Security framework, including policies, standards, and processes governing source code, build systems, artifacts, and deployment environments.
• Establishing and enforcing standards for secure storage, accessing, and transferring of source code, including repository protections, branching controls, and access governance.
• Defining security requirements for CI/CD pipelines and building environments, including isolation, hardening, least-privilege access, and protection against tampering.
• Defining and operationalizing software provenance and traceability requirements to ensure the authenticity and integrity of software throughout the lifecycle.
• Establishing processes and standards for evaluating and managing third-party vendors, suppliers, and open source components, including security assessment and ongoing risk monitoring.
• Defining and enforcing SBOM requirements, including generation, storage, and usage in vulnerability and compliance processes.
• Coordinating with operations and manufacturing teams, establishing security standards and validation processes for manufacturing, factory, and deployment environments where software is integrated into products.
• Defining and governing the secure management of secrets, keys, and cryptographic material used in development and build systems, in coordination with enterprise security teams.
• Partnering with IT and Information Security teams to ensure supply chain security controls are implemented, monitored, and enforced across development and build environments.
• Collaborating with Product Security and Privacy Architects to embed secure coding and security controls into building environments and CI/CD pipelines through standardized “paved road” solutions.
• Establishing mechanisms to validate control effectiveness and detect non-compliance or drift across pipelines, build systems, and artifact repositories.
• Developing metrics, reporting, and dashboards to measure supply chain security posture, control coverage, and adherence across the organization.