Director - Office of the CISO

Why We Have This Role

The Engineering Security Manager is essential to Qualtrics' operations, tasked with protecting our products and infrastructure from increasing security risks. This person will maintain company-wide security standards, leading a skilled team of security engineers and collaborating across product units to address security challenges.

How You’ll Find Success

• Proactive Leadership: Take the initiative, understanding the expected outcome, getting the necessary context, and working entrepreneurially to achieve the set goals in security engineering.
• Stellar Communication: Communicate effectively at all levels and influence appropriately to create trust within the team and across the business to induce high standards and change practices.
• Security Expertise: Broad expertise in platform security, demonstrating an in-depth understanding of different security facets, including product, cloud, and infrastructure security.
• Collaboration Skills: Working across various product units, they will display excellent collaboration skills, building strong relationships to drive security initiatives forward.
• Decision-Making and Problem Solving: Possess strong decision-making skills, able to tackle complex security issues swiftly and effectively in an autonomous date driven capacity.
• Continuous Learning: Committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of the latest security trends, threats, and mitigation strategies.

Things You’ll Do

• Enhance Platform Security: Build and implement comprehensive security solutions across product, multicloud, and infrastructure areas to reduce vulnerabilities and potential breaches.
• Drive Vulnerability Management: Establish an effective vulnerability management system, conducting regular checks and swiftly acting upon detected issues.
• Develop Data Protection Protocols: Define and enforce strict data protection protocols for adherence throughout the organization, ensuring customer data security.
• Access Management: Oversee aspects of access across the corporate and production environments setting the standards and best practices.
• Team Leadership: Lead a team of skilled security engineers and foster a security-conscious culture, promoting continuous improvement.
• Collaborate Across Business & Product Units: Work closely with all areas of the business, forging partnerships to support security initiatives and create a coherent front against emerging risks.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven Leadership: Evidence of effective team leadership for over 15 years, particularly in the field of security.
• Expertise in Diverse Security Aspects: Proficiency in dealing with multiple security aspects, ideally in product, cloud, and infrastructure security, including vulnerability management, access management, CDN/WAF/firewalls, product security, and data protection.
• Collaboration: Ability to collaborate and build partnerships across different business units, working towards unified security objectives.
• Proactive Problem-Solving: Instances where you acted swiftly and effectively to manage potential vulnerabilities or address complex security issues.
• Strategy Development: Definition and implementation of security strategies in previous roles, driving transformative outcomes.