Associate Director – Cybersecurity Posture, Hygiene and AI

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $141.5k - $268.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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AbbVie

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2013

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

AbbVie is a global pharmaceutical company that discovers and delivers innovative medicines and solutions to enhance lives. With a focus on addressing the world's toughest health challenges, AbbVie operates in over 175 countries, providing a wide range of products across areas like immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics. Committed to scientific innovation, AbbVie invests heavily in research and development, aiming to produce first-in-class medicines. The company also emphasizes workplace diversity, sustainability, and patient support initiatives, ensuring positive impact for both its patients and the broader community.

📋 Description

• Build and lead an enterprise security posture and hygiene program, including strategy, roadmap, operating cadence, governance, and direct people management • Manage and develop a multidisciplinary team responsible for control assessments, configuration hygiene, remediation planning, and continuous improvement • Leverage AI to accelerate continuous control monitoring and response • Integrate posture and hygiene telemetry from AI-enabled tools, custom tools, and workflows to detect misuse, configuration drift, and critical control deviations • Identify intentional and unintentional misuse of AI-enabled tools and workflows and translate findings into preventive systemic control improvements • Develop and mature a control framework aligned to the CIS Top 18 Controls and associated safeguards • Establish a methodology to assess control maturity, identify systemic gaps, and prioritize remediation based on risk and business impact • Partner with infrastructure, cloud, identity, network, endpoint, application, and AI engineering teams to embed secure-by-default configurations and resilient architectures • Build metrics, dashboards, and executive-ready reporting on posture trends, control effectiveness, and remediation progress • Publish standards, playbooks, and guidance for secure design, deployment, and operations • Stay current on emerging risks related to AI, automation, and modern attack techniques

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 9 years of experience, or Master's degree and 8 years of experience, or PhD and 4 years of experience • Proven cybersecurity leadership in complex and diverse IT environments • Extensive experience managing security posture and hygiene strategies • Experience implementing an enterprise AI security program • Expert knowledge of operating systems, networking protocols, systems administration, X-as-a-service, applications, and security technologies • Expert knowledge of cybersecurity terminology, concepts, cyber threat landscape, and attack vectors • Deep understanding of risk management principles and their integration into security practices • Ability to innovate and adapt in a constantly changing environment • Advanced critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills • Strong leadership and collaboration skills with business and technical groups • Excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills • Ability to convey technical insights to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to interface effectively with clients, IT management, and staff • Desire to learn and stay current with cybersecurity developments • Professional cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CIS Controls are highly desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) • Short-term incentive programs • Professional growth and development opportunities