Associate Director, Cybersecurity Posture, Hygiene and AI

What you'll do

• Build and lead an enterprise security posture and hygiene program including strategy, roadmap, and governance.
• Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team responsible for control assessments, configuration hygiene, and remediation planning.
• Integrate telemetry from AI-enabled tools to detect misuse, configuration drift, and critical control deviations.
• Develop and mature a control framework aligned to the CIS Top 18 Controls for enterprise environments.
• Establish a methodology to assess control maturity and prioritize remediation based on risk and business impact.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed secure-by-default configurations and resilient architectures across cloud and on-premise systems.
• Create metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting to provide actionable insights into posture trends and remediation progress.
• Publish standards, playbooks, and guidance to enable teams to design and operate systems securely.

What we're looking for

• Must have a Bachelor's degree and 9 years of experience, a Master's degree and 8 years of experience, or a PhD and 4 years of experience.
• Must have proven leadership in cybersecurity with extensive experience managing security posture and hygiene strategies in complex IT environments.
• Must have experience implementing an AI security program across an enterprise.
• Must have expert knowledge of operating systems, networking protocols, systems administration, X as a service, applications, and security technologies.
• Must have expert knowledge of cybersecurity terminology, concepts, the cyber threat landscape, and attack vectors.
• Must have a deep understanding of risk management principles and the ability to integrate them into security practices.
• Must have advanced critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills.
• Professional cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CIS Controls are highly desirable (preferred).