Security Operations Director

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director of Security Operations based in United States.

• Lead day-to-day security operations across security monitoring, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, vulnerability management, adversary emulation, identity security, and operational resilience.
• Establish operational priorities, service objectives, metrics, playbooks, and repeatable processes that reflect organizational risk, business requirements, and evolving security threats.
• Serve as incident commander for significant cybersecurity events, coordinating cross-functional response activities and ensuring lessons learned translate into stronger controls, processes, and operational capabilities.
• Drive the responsible adoption of AI-assisted capabilities across detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, and incident response to improve security effectiveness and efficiency.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring and response capabilities are in place for AI applications, autonomous agents, workloads, and non-human identities as these technologies become increasingly important to the environment.
• Use automation to reduce manual security work and accelerate detection, analysis, containment, remediation, and recovery timelines.
• Partner closely with Security Architecture & Engineering to ensure security controls are effectively designed, implemented, operationalized, monitored, and continuously validated.
• Develop and mentor security talent while providing the CISO with clear reporting on incidents, exposure, operational performance, risk, and overall program maturity.

• Bring experience leading Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management, or closely related cybersecurity functions.
• Demonstrate hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls across cloud environments, infrastructure, applications, identity systems, endpoints, and networks.
• Have strong technical knowledge of security analytics, detection engineering, exposure management, adversary emulation, identity security, and modern security operations.
• Demonstrate experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents and coordinating complex, cross-functional response efforts under pressure.
• Have experience implementing security automation and AI-assisted capabilities that improve operational effectiveness, investigation, detection, or response.
• Bring strong leadership, mentoring, communication, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical security issues into clear business and risk considerations.
• Be comfortable balancing hands-on technical involvement with team leadership, program ownership, operational prioritization, and strategic decision-making.
• Experience working in cloud-native or large-scale distributed environments is preferred, as is familiarity with modern cybersecurity and AI-risk frameworks.

• Base salary range of $205,000–$230,000, with final compensation determined by factors including location, skills, depth of experience, and relevant credentials.
• Healthcare coverage for employees and families, including medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• Competitive compensation package with 401(k).
• RSU grants for full-time employees.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• MacBook Pro for work plus a generous workstation personalization stipend.
• Childcare bonus for eligible employees.
• Fertility treatment and support.
• Learning and development programs.
• Commuter benefits.
• Culture focused on healthy work-life balance, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
• Opportunity to lead modern cybersecurity operations across cloud, infrastructure, identity, AI, and distributed environments.
• Significant influence over security maturity, automation, incident response, and emerging AI-security capabilities.