Senior Manager, IT Cybersecurity, Security, and AI

Role Summary

Seeking a Senior Manager, IT Cybersecurity, Security, and AI to lead and scale cybersecurity across enterprise IT, cloud, applications, and data, while enabling secure and responsible AI adoption. This role manages a team of ~2–3 FTEs plus MSP/MSSP partners, sets strategy, strengthens security operations and incident response, and partners across IT, R&D, and Compliance/Legal to reduce risk and improve resilience.

What You’ll Do

• Define and execute the cybersecurity strategy and roadmap aligned to business and regulatory needs
• Lead, hire, and develop a team of ~2–3 FTEs; manage MSP/MSSP partners with clear SLAs and metric
• Oversee security operations (SOC/SIEM/EDR) and incident response readiness, including playbooks, exercises, and executive reporting
• Drive risk based vulnerability and exposure management across infrastructure, cloud, and applications
• Embed security by design with IT and application owners (identity, hardening, segmentation, logging, baselines)
• Establish governance for AI/GenAI use cases, including data protection and model/service risk reviews
• Lead third party and SaaS security (due diligence, contract requirements, ongoing monitoring)
• Own security policies, standards, and exceptions; communicate risk and tradeoffs to technical and executive audiences

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience across SecOps/IR, engineering/architecture, and risk
• 5+ years of people management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing MSSP/SOC partners with SLAs and measurable outcomes
• Strong executive communication and cross functional leadership
• Certifications: CISSP, CISM, GIAC, Microsoft Security
• Experience maturing security programs using NIST CSF, NIST 800 53/171, ISO 27001, or SOC 2
• Experience scaling security organizations (processes, metrics, MSP/MSSP leverage, automation)
• Hands on experience with Microsoft security stack and SIEM/SOAR (Defender, Sentinel)
• Experience establishing governance for AI/ML or GenAI and securing cloud/SaaS environments
• Proven people and program leadership (prioritization, metrics, change leadership)
• Incident response leadership, including crisis communications and post incident learning
• Expertise in security operations, cloud/SaaS security, vulnerability management, and AI/GenAI risk
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and sound judgment