Corporate Vice President, Red Team Program Lead

About the role

The role reports to the Head of Cyber Risk Management, inside of Technology Risk organization, and supports the execution, governance, and operational management of New York Life’s Red Team Program.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Red Team Program engagement pipeline, including intake, prioritization, planning, scheduling, execution tracking, and post-engagement follow-up.
• Maintain program plans, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and deliverables across concurrent exercises and related activities.
• Support annual and quarterly planning activities, including exercise selection, resource planning, stakeholder alignment, and program roadmap maintenance.
• Track program risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies, escalating items as appropriate to leadership.
• Help establish and maintain repeatable processes, templates, procedures, and governance documentation.
• Coordinate across cybersecurity, technology operations, risk, business, and control functions to support the successful planning and execution of Red Team engagements.
• Serve as a point of coordination between the Red Team Control Board, technical operators, defensive teams, technology owners, business stakeholders, and executive audiences.
• Support pre-engagement communications, rules of engagement, stakeholder briefings, deconfliction activities, and post-engagement readouts.
• Support the definition and documentation of engagement scope, objectives, assumptions, constraints, timelines, and success criteria.
• Partner with stakeholders to drive follow-up actions, confirm ownership, monitor progress, and support timely resolution of agreed outcomes.
• Identify recurring control gaps, organizational themes, and opportunities to improve cyber defense capabilities based on engagement results.
• Support vendor management activities, including coordination of deliverables, timelines, invoicing, and performance expectations.
• Identify opportunities to improve program structure, execution discipline, reporting consistency, stakeholder experience, and outcome management.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Red Team Program standards, operating procedures, and best practices.
• Help mature the program’s ability to measure effectiveness, communicate value, and drive enterprise-level security improvements.
• Adapt program execution to changing priorities, emerging threats, organizational needs, and operational constraints.

Requirements

Prior experience in IT system ownership, cybersecurity program coordination, technology risk, project/program management, or related technology governance roles.

Experience managing cross-functional initiatives involving technology, cybersecurity, risk, business, vendor, and executive stakeholders.

Prior experience supporting vendor management activities, including coordination of deliverables, timelines, invoicing, and performance expectations.

Prior experience preparing executive-facing materials, status updates, metrics, dashboards, or management reporting.

Familiarity with cybersecurity, cyber defense, technology infrastructure, application environments, identity and access management, incident response, or security operations concepts.

Prior experience in a regulated financial services, insurance, or similarly complex enterprise environment preferred.

Experience supporting offensive security, penetration testing, adversary simulation, purple team, incident response, or cyber resilience programs preferred but not required.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent work experience.

Project or program management experience or exposure.

Cybersecurity or technology risk certification preferred, such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or similar designation.

High-level understanding of cyber defense organizations, including security operations, incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, identity, infrastructure, and application security functions.

High-level understanding of enterprise technology functions, including application ownership, infrastructure, cloud, networking, end-user technology, and technology operations.

Working knowledge of risk management, issue management, control remediation, and executive reporting practices.

Skills

• Clear and professional communication with technical teams, business partners, risk stakeholders, vendors, and executive audiences.
• Ability to build trust and maintain positive working relationships, including in situations involving challenging findings, sensitive topics, or competing priorities.
• Strong organizational, analytical, written communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical or complex cybersecurity concepts into practical business language.
• Proven ability to drive accountability and outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when handling confidential or sensitive information.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage shifting priorities in a dynamic execution environment.
• Ability to prioritize and deprioritize work based on risk, urgency, stakeholder impact, and available capacity.

Benefits

Pay Transparency: Salary Range: $185,000-$225,000 Overtime eligible: Exempt Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes Sales bonus eligible: No

Company Overview: At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact. Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress. As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.

Our Benefits: We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.

Job Requisition ID: 94130