What You'll Do:
Provide strategic, inclusive executive leadership to meet mission demands, to include talent recruitment, development, and mentoring
Synchronize, collaborate, and integrate within Security Best Practices (SBP), Sales and Business Services (SBS), and Operations, Intelligence, and Services (OIS) teams to ensure the technical merits, relevance, and cohesion of products and services
Evaluate cybersecurity technologies that support implementation of CIS Security Best Practice products and services
Guide team efforts to understand and characterize the needs of CIS customers, leading to the identification, prioritization, development, delivery, and sustainment of best practice products and services
Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and ensure timeliness, adherence to budget, and quality of all products and services delivered within the team portfolio
Identify and nurture internal and external engagement efforts
Establish partnerships across commercial, non-profit, academic, government, and standards organizations to drive awareness, inclusion, and adoption of CIS cybersecurity best practice guidance
Identify and manage program risks and ensure that risk mitigation steps are taken in a timely manner
Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned
What You'll Need:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field*
10+ years of progressive experience in a technology role, preferably in security
5+ years of experience leading a technical team or equivalent
Forward thinker with extensive industry knowledge, including experience with other cybersecurity frameworks and compliance requirements such as NIST, ISO, and PCI
Demonstrated ability to develop and execute highly effective operational strategies, organizational innovation, and stakeholder engagement
Demonstrated experience addressing challenges within and across today’s evolving technology landscape, such as secure configurations, cloud technologies, secure by design, IoT, Zero Trust, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Experience developing and managing departmental budgets and solid financial acumen
Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
Must be authorized to work in the United States
*Additional years of relevant experience or a combination of an Associate’s degree or equivalent and relevant experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree.
At CIS, we are committed to providing an inclusive environment in which the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and views of our employees, members, and customers are valued and respected. It is through this commitment that we are able to work together towards our common mission: to make the connected world a safer place.
Compensation Range:
USD$188,300.00 - $338,900.00Top Skills
What We Do
The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation.
We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud.
CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices.
