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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are...
When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Our Team
As the Warner Bros. Discovery's portfolio continues to grow - around the world and across platforms - the Technology & Operations (T&O) team is building media technology and IT systems that meet the world class standard for which Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). T&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering WBD's products, while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable Warner Bros. Discovery's growing pay-TV, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.
Within our Global Information and Content Security team (GICS), there has never been a busier or more urgent time to obtain the best talent we can for this critical function. In light of the constant threats and attacks occurring in companies across the globe, and across all industries, the Global Information and Content Security at Warner Bros.Discovery is a growing group of cyber security professionals, using the latest tools and resources to protect the assets from our internal infrastructure to the shows we broadcast across the globe. From the US to Europe, Latin America, Singapore, Poland, India to LA, we are tasked with protecting, training, and implementing the best of the best in tools, resources, monitoring, threat detection, and more.
Your New Role...
The Sr. Director, Cyber Security, of the Business Information Security Offices is a key leader in driving WBD's security strategy, policies and standards in WBD's business lines. This individual will also manage a team of GICS Technical Security Sr./Principals which work closely with business lines, to ensure that technical security controls are being implemented effectively, all which play a key role to ensure that security is integrated into key business processes and operations. This Sr. Director will supply read-outs to the CISO on the efficiency of security measures and acts as a liaison between the business, technology, and GICS teams, to ensure alignment across strategy, goals, technical security direction, prioritization of cybersecurity efforts, resources and delivering results on our Cyber Security Program.
The Sr. Director will report to VP, GICS Strategy, under the EVP, Chief Information Security Office (CISO).
Your Role Accountabilities...

• Lead a global team of Cyber Sr./Principles (director-level) supporting multiple WBD business lines.
• Serve as a technical cyber security subject matter expert (SME), providing multi-disciplinary knowledge, skills, and experience in cybersecurity domains
• Collaborate with our corporate functions including Internal Audit, Legal, Privacy, Procurement and others to ensure that WBD maintains a strong cybersecurity posture.
• Work with technology leadership, Global Information and Content Security, and all IT Service Owners to generate appropriate communication, process, and education plans to ensure both IT and Business leaders are aware of the overall cybersecurity posture within WBD.
• Promote corporate cyber security awareness activities and implement security awareness concepts locally, customizing communications to be suitable for the business
• Maintain a solid understanding of assigned business lines and supporting infrastructure to effectively handle the threat and risk landscape
• Lead the implementation and enforcement of global information security policies and standards across the business lines
• Support enterprise and business lines regulatory and compliance requirements, and develop implementation strategies that minimize operational impact and disruption to the business unit
• Support security operations and other teams in the identification, investigation and mitigation of cyber security incidents, 24x7 on call based on business line impacts.
• Work with all GICS leadership management team to drive the adoption of core security services (Identity and Access Management, Logging and Monitoring, Detection and Response, Vulnerability Management, Product Security, Cloud Security, and Content Security).

Qualifications & Experience...

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related discipline or 10+ years of previous technical security experience, e.g., architecture, engineering
• Executive presence, technical security expertise, business acumen, communication skills and alignment focus
• Being accountable, project driven, results oriented, willingness to be constantly learning new things, open minded, ability to articulate sometimes complex technical security topics and articulate risks in a language that the business finds meaningful and use that information to make more informed decisions.
• 5+ years of supervisory or management experience in a technical security environments
• Solid knowledge of various regulatory requirements and information security control frameworks (ISO, NIST, PCI, GDPR, CCPA, SOX)
• Strong understanding of audit/risk management methodologies and regulatory requirements pertaining to information security, privacy and/or data security
• Hands-on experience with security practices such as security incident response and risk management
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources
• Good understanding of Industry trends and emerging threats
• Experience in leading projects leveraging global teams with matrix resources
• Extensive experience in the information security field designing and implementing enterprise security solutions in a global context
• Should possess a great deal of proficiency in the technical aspects of cyber security, such as
  
  • Cloud infrastructure and concepts, specifically the security aspects thereof
  • Application security topics such as the OWASP top 10.
  • SIEM & logging tools
  • Vulnerability Management and EDR/XDR toolsets.
  • Network and Compute architectures
  • Identity & Access Management and Privileged Access Management

Security certifications are a plus (CISSP, CISM, CISA, SANS, Security+, etc.)
How We Get Things Done...
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
The Legal Bits...
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [email protected].