VP, Agentic Managed Detection & Response, MDR

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🌪️ Kansas – Remote

🌪️ Kansas – Remote

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Optiv

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

Optiv Security is the cyber advisory and solutions leader, delivering strategic and technical expertise to nearly 6,000 companies across every major industry. We partner with organizations to advise, deploy and operate cybersecurity programs from strategy and managed security services to risk, integration and technology solutions. With clients at the center of our unmatched ecosystem of people, products, partners and programs, we accelerate business progress like no other company can.We manage cyber risk so you can secure your full potential.

📋 Description

• Define & Execute Vision: Shape the strategic roadmap for the MDR and Advanced Fusion Center (AFC) practices, aligning modern security offerings with Optiv’s broader enterprise business objectives. • Partner with premier cybersecurity technology vendors, hyperscalers, and alliance partners to co-develop joint go-to-market (GTM) strategies, capitalize on channel-led revenue, and capture market share. • Own complete P&L responsibility for the practice, driving margin optimization, operational efficiency, and sustainable revenue growth. • Drive continuous service innovation to position Optiv as a market leader, converting cutting-edge technical capabilities and partner integrations into clear commercial advantages. • Partner closely with senior executive peers, internal product management, and sales leadership to build unified cross-functional growth strategies. • Collaborate deeply with key technology partners to influence their product roadmaps, ensuring seamless API integrations, robust data pipelines, and shared engineering initiatives that enhance Optiv’s proprietary MDR capabilities. • Champion the transition from legacy workflows to autonomous, AI-driven operations—specifically leveraging advanced orchestration, LLM platforms, and agentic capabilities to achieve drastic reductions in Mean Time to Detect/Respond (MTTR). • Oversee the strategy for large-scale data ingestion, pipeline engineering, and optimization across diverse, partner-backed enterprise SIEM platforms to maximize threat visibility and reduce backend operational costs. • Ensure flawless, 24/7/365 end-to-end delivery of managed security services across global enterprise client environments, maintaining strict adherence to SLAs and compliance frameworks. • Serve as the high-impact executive sponsor for key strategic accounts and elite partner relationships, cultivating long-term trust, ensuring retention, and identifying opportunities for account expansion. • Lead executive briefings, CISO roundtables, and partner-facing advisory boards to evangelize Optiv’s operational philosophy and vision for the future of managed security. • Act as the ultimate technical and operational escalation point for critical, high-severity security incidents, providing steady executive leadership during high-stakes client crises. • Cultivate a customer-obsessed, high-performing culture across a globally distributed team of security engineers, data architects, and analysts. • Proactively lead workforce planning, mentorship, and succession strategies to identify, groom, and transition future leadership talent within the practice. • Spearhead initiatives aimed at attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier, diverse cybersecurity and engineering talent in a highly competitive market.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in enterprise cybersecurity operations, Managed Security Services (MSS/MDR), or premier security consulting. • Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree (MBA, MS in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or Data Engineering) preferred. • Active Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) designation required. • Proven track record of successfully navigating, influencing, and scaling strategic partnerships with major cybersecurity technology vendors (e.g., EDR, SIEM, XDR) and cloud providers to drive mutual business value. • Proven track record of managing multi-million-dollar P&Ls, optimizing operational margins, and scaling enterprise service practices. • Deep, authoritative knowledge of modern SOC tools, SIEM architectures, data pipelining, and the practical implementation of AI/LLM frameworks within security orchestration. • Demonstrated success managing large, multi-tiered, globally distributed technical operations and engineering teams. • Exceptional communication skills with a proven ability to negotiate, influence, and build strategic partnerships at the C-suite, partner executive, and Board level.

🏖️ Benefits

• A company committed to our inclusive value through our Employee Resource Groups • Work/life balance • Professional training resources • Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects • Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities. • The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)