Risk Lead, IT Risk Management

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🏄 California, North Carolina – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $155.9k - $204.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Own the IT Risk Management standard and methodology, including risk sensing, aggregation, prioritization, risk appetite, taxonomy, thresholds, and common methods • Lead the AI-enabled risk intelligence model and define how sub-agents prioritize exposure by business impact • Provide real-time leadership insight across AI and IT signals • Define the assurance model for critical service outcomes, failure tolerances, resilience, control effectiveness, and AI lifecycle safeguards • Challenge disaster-recovery capability through evidence-based testing of objectives, dependencies, and recovery procedures • Operate the closed-loop model through named owners, action tracking, risk acceptance and escalation paths, and verification of risk reduction • Feed incidents, test results, and lessons back into standards and design • Provide technical thought leadership on AI-enabled risk management • Partner with Software Engineering and leaders across AI + IT, STO, Finance, Security, Compliance, and Resiliency • Set guardrails, evaluate agent behavior, enable automation and telemetry, and preserve domain ownership of risk decisions and remediation execution

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in IT risk, GRC, audit, control assurance, or technology risk program management • Experience establishing a common risk framework, taxonomy or scoring method, enterprise risk register, and recurring executive review cadence • Experience partnering with executive team members and domain owners to define RACI, escalation paths, risk acceptance, and decision rights • Experience working across at least two of: SOX or control assurance, vulnerability management, lifecycle management, business continuity or disaster recovery, application resiliency, CMMC, or GRC or audit • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Systems, Risk Management, Computer Science, Business, or a related field (preferred) • Demonstrated experience applying AI, agentic workflows, automation, or sophisticated analytics to technology risk, security, resilience, control assurance, or operations • Experience with guardrails and human-in-the-loop review • Experience leading evidence-based resilience, control-effectiveness, or AI lifecycle testing • Experience connecting fragmented risk or compliance programs into a common operating model • Experience building closed-loop risk management with named owners, action tracking, verified closure, and risk-reduction measures • Ability to foster candid communication, balanced debate, and consensus on business-improving decisions

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • Paid employee birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid personal wellness days • 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies