Field CISO

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £133k - £159k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Illumio

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501 - 1000 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

💰 $225M Series F on 2021-06

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • SaaS

Illumio is a cybersecurity company specializing in Zero Trust Segmentation to prevent breaches and contain ransomware. Renowned as a leader in Microsegmentation Solutions, the company offers products such as Illumio Core, CloudSecure, and Endpoint, which focus on visualizing communications between workloads and establishing segmentation policies to isolate high-value assets. With a strong presence in industries like Banking, Energy, and Government, Illumio emphasizes cloud security and risk reduction. Recognized by both Forrester and Gartner, Illumio stands out for its innovative approach to cybersecurity.

📋 Description

• Serve as Illumio’s foremost executive voice on Zero Trust Segmentation and breach containment through conferences, webinars, analyst briefings, and published content • Build and maintain relationships with Gartner, Forrester, and other analyst firms • Engage CISO- and CTO-level stakeholders on strategic opportunities as a peer and trusted advisor • Partner with Sales and GTM leadership on go-to-market and revenue acceleration strategy • Shape positioning, messaging, and roadmap priorities with Product Marketing and Product Management • Own and evolve the Use Case Map, Demo Runbook, and reference architectures for the global SE organization • Design and build flagship demo environments and POC/POV frameworks, including integration patterns and success-criteria templates • Translate product roadmap into sellable, demoable capability and drive pre-sales enablement • Maintain hands-on fluency with the Illumio platform, segmentation, hybrid cloud detection and response, and Zero Trust architecture • Lead or co-lead strategic and complex opportunities globally with AMS, EMEA, and APAC SE teams • Architect and execute high-stakes POCs/POVs and deliver executive readouts • Act as final technical and executive escalation point for regional deals • Design and deliver training curricula and certification paths for the global SE team • Build battlecards, FAQs, and RFP response libraries • Mentor SE Leads and SEs on segmentation, breach containment, positioning, and objection handling • Provide Product Management with field feedback on roadmap priorities, feature gaps, and competitive intelligence • Track and analyze the competitive landscape across microsegmentation, Zero Trust, and cloud detection and response

🎯 Requirements

• Prior experience as a CISO, Deputy CISO, or senior security executive (VP/Director of Information Security) is required • 10+ years of experience leading enterprise security programs • Direct, hands-on exposure to network segmentation, Zero Trust architecture, incident response and breach containment, or cloud security • Ability to speak credibly to engineering and executive/board audiences • Track record as an external-facing voice through conference speaking, analyst engagement, published thought leadership, or peer-community leadership • Hands-on architecture and build capability, including personally building and demonstrating complex technical environments • Experience engaging CISO- and CTO-level stakeholders on strategic, multi-stakeholder decisions • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience • Willingness and ability to travel 30–50% • Experience with segmentation, Zero Trust, breach containment, microsegmentation, CNAPP, cloud security posture management, or hybrid cloud detection and response tooling • Existing relationships with analyst firms are preferred • Experience integrating or building go-to-market plans around a new or acquired product line is preferred • Published thought leadership is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity opportunities • Commission • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Health and dependent savings accounts • Life and disability programs • Paid parental leave • Voluntary benefit programs • Company-sponsored wellness program • Wellness reimbursement program • Retirement savings • Paid time off • Paid holidays • Employee incentive program

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