Director, Field Security

About the role

The Director of Field Security at Collibra acts as the critical bridge between our Field teams and our customers, ensuring customer trust remains our number one priority. They engage with Sales, Product, and Engineering to structure security initiatives that add business value and foster high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisor to Sales: Combining a deep cybersecurity expertise with the ability to engage externally with customers, prospects, and regulators.
• Excellent Communicator: Articulating and owning the security narrative and insights to help drive sales.
• Customer-Facing Security Leader: Representing Collibra’s security posture, roadmap, and philosophy to the public.
• Collaborating and Negotiating: Working with internal business, product, and functional leadership to define and manage customer requirements and regulations into clear security objectives.
• Analyzing Customer Needs: Evaluating customer needs, requirements, and expectations from a product and technical security perspective to optimize resource allocation.
• Handling Complex Situations: Forming and implementing complex project plans, specifications, and schedules to ensure critical outcomes are met.
• Evaluating Organizational Standards: Continually assessing the security organization’s capability to define, develop, and implement scalable, resilient, and effective structures and controls.
• Engaging Stakeholders: Engaging the full set of stakeholders to ensure appropriate decision-making regarding security analysis, planning, and evolution.

Requirements

• Extensive 5 - 7 years professional experience in an information security, field security, or customer-facing technical leadership role.
• Prominent track record of consulting with senior leadership and enterprise customers on business-critical security concerns and structural/operational implications.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, EU AI Act, DORA, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communications; comfortable presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience establishing organizational standards and managing complex project plans in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Deep understanding of multiple security perspectives, including customer business cases, physical infrastructure, and information assurance.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly working alongside Sales, Product, and Engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.

Skills

• Analytical: Leveraging multiple sources of data to gain a holistic understanding before reaching conclusions and making clear-eyed decisions about field security risks and trade-offs.
• Authentic: Demonstrating self-awareness, self-mastery, and a commitment to ongoing reflection that reinforces integrity across the leadership team.
• Inclusive: Soliciting diverse opinions, giving others time to think, and leading others to recognize the assumptions and biases that might sway decision-making.
• Adaptable: Ensuring a holistic approach to learning and adapting in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Consistent: Demonstrating a consistent approach and manner in all circumstances and ensuring actions align with personal and company values.

Benefits

• Standard base salary range: $224,000.00 - $280,000.00 per year.
• Total Rewards Package: Includes bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.
• Flexible Benefits: Designed to support employees through a diverse range of circumstances and life events, including competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off.

Pay

The standard base salary range for this position is $224,000.00 - $280,000.00 per year. This position is not eligible for additional commission-based compensation. Salary offers are based on a combination of factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, and location.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role based in our New York office. You’ll work from the office at least two days each week to stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.