Principal, Security Strategy

About the role

The Security Strategy Principal role is the key technical consultant for the VP, Security Products within Belden’s Innovation organization. This role handles multiple concurrent initiatives including M&A point of view preparation, partner solution evaluation to complement Belden’s security portfolio, drafting thought-leadership documentation, leading innovative concepts, and maintaining the "Belden Products/Solutions Security Manual".

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Belden’s multi-year security strategy and strategic narrative aligned to company growth and target verticals.
• Identify security market inflection points and recommend strategic responses.
• Establish executive-ready points of view, strategy decks, and internal alignment materials.
• Partner with Product Management to translate strategy into portfolio priorities and roadmap themes.
• Lead build/buy/partner assessments; support M&A and partnership diligence from a security market/technology standpoint.
• Define strategic requirements for platform capabilities (identity, policy, telemetry, analytics, secure-by-design processes).
• Engage strategic customers to understand risk drivers and buying criteria.
• Represent Belden as an OT security Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Build relationships with key ecosystem players and help shape joint-value propositions.
• Support executive briefings, key pursuits, and escalations where security strategy is central.
• Track and interpret relevant standards and regulatory drivers affecting customers.
• Create repeatable frameworks for the Belden Security Strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity, or related field (advanced degree preferred.)
• 12+ years in cybersecurity strategy, product strategy, security architecture, or security leadership in networking/industrial/critical infrastructure contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders and drive cross-functional strategic initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong working knowledge of network security, identity/policy concepts, and security telemetry/monitoring; familiarity with IT/OT convergence challenges.
• Excellent communication skills: can turn complex security topics into clear business decisions and narratives.
• Strong networking fundamentals (switching/routing, VLANs, ACLs, NAT, VPNs, firewalls) and security fundamentals (identity, certificates, logging, vulnerability management).
• Experience in creating technical / thought-leadership documentation.
• Able to work across teams and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• OT/ICS security experience (industrial networks, Purdue model, segmentation strategies, remote access patterns for plants, SIEM, etc.).
• Familiarity with IEC 62443, NIST SP 800, and common compliance/customer audit expectations.
• Experience with SIEM integrations, NAC/identity, IDS use cases, and zero trust concepts.
• Experience supporting M&A / partner diligence, strategy consulting, or corporate strategy for security.

Qualifications

• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required to perform the duties of the role (30% frequency of travel).
• Computer literacy (MS Office, Visio, SharePoint) plus proficiency with platforms for CRM (e.g. Salesforce), ticket management (e.g. Jira) and knowledge sharing (e.g. Confluence).
• English fluency to business standard essential.
• Demonstrate Belden values.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and structured problem solving.
• Executive communication and storytelling.
• Market sensing and competitive analysis.
• Partner/ecosystem mindset.
• Ability to translate customer risk into product/solution direction.
• High judgment and pragmatism in ambiguous environments.

Benefits

This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location. Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!

Pay

$170,000 - $200,000 annually, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role.

Schedule

Hybrid and remote work practices where feasible.