Director, Field Security

About the role

The Field Security team acts as the critical bridge between our Field teams and our customers, ensuring customer trust remains our number one priority. We engage with Sales, Product, and Engineering to structure security initiatives that add business value and foster high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Our customers are our true north, and we live this value by consulting directly with strategically important customers to provide resolution on significant, business-critical security issues.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisor to Sales: Combining a deep cybersecurity expertise with ability to engage externally with customers, prospects and regulators.
• Customer-Facing Security Leader: Acting as a public facing persona representing Collibra’s security posture, roadmap and philosophy.
• Collaborating and negotiating with internal business, product, and functional leadership to define and manage customer requirements, regulations into clear security objectives.
• Analyzing customer needs, requirements, and expectations from a product technical and security perspective to optimally allocate Field Security resources.
• Handling complex, strategically important situations by forming and implementing complex project plans, specifications, and schedules to ensure critical outcomes are met.
• Continually evaluating the security organization’s capability to define, develop, and implement structures and controls that are scalable, resilient, and effective.
• 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 (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 including bonus potential, equity for eligible roles, a Flex Fund monthly stipend, pension/401k plans, and more.
• Flexible benefits program supporting diverse life events and circumstances.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.