Director, Information Security

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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PowerSchool

1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Education • Artificial Intelligence • Software

PowerSchool is a leading provider of cloud-based K-12 education software, offering a comprehensive range of solutions to support educators, administrators, and families in enhancing student learning. Their products include tools for student information management, personalized learning, analytics, talent recruitment, and resource planning, all aimed at fostering student success and effective school operations. Through innovative technology and a commitment to meeting the diverse needs of educational institutions, PowerSchool empowers effective communication and collaboration within the educational ecosystem.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the enterprise security strategy across Security Operations, Incident Response, Security Architecture, Security Engineering, Identity Security, and Cloud Security. • Define and execute security architecture, engineering, identity security, and cloud security strategies aligned to business objectives and enterprise risk priorities. • Lead the Security Architecture organization, including Security Engineering, Identity Security, and Cloud Security functions. • Establish and maintain enterprise security standards, reference architectures, design principles, technical security guardrails, cloud security standards, and control frameworks. • Define and govern enterprise identity and access management strategy, including privileged access, authentication, authorization, and identity governance. • Lead security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments for strategic initiatives, cloud platforms, and enterprise systems. • Drive the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of security controls, tooling, and automation capabilities. • Partner with Engineering, IT, Product, and Cloud Operations leaders to integrate security requirements into technology decisions and delivery processes. • Oversee vulnerability management, security hardening standards, technical risk remediation, and security control effectiveness. • Define and execute security operations, incident response, and cyber defense strategy, roadmap, and maturity plan. • Lead Security Operations and Incident Response functions, including detection, investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery of cybersecurity incidents. • Direct continuous improvement of security monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response capabilities. • Establish incident response plans, playbooks, escalation procedures, and crisis management processes. • Develop security operations metrics, KPIs, SLAs, and executive reporting. • Manage relationships with external security service providers, incident response partners, law enforcement, and cyber insurance stakeholders. • Ensure operational readiness through tabletop exercises, simulations, and continuous training programs. • Build, mentor, and develop managers, architects, engineers, security operations teams, incident response teams, and detection engineering teams. • Communicate security incidents, emerging threats, operational risks, program performance, and security priorities to executive leadership and key stakeholders. • Evaluate emerging technologies, threats, and industry practices to inform security strategy and investment decisions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant business or technical discipline is required. • 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with leadership responsibility across security operations, incident response, security architecture, engineering, or related security programs. • 5+ years of leadership experience managing security operations teams, SOC functions, incident response teams, security architects, engineers, or security managers. • Demonstrated experience leading multiple security domains, including security operations, incident response, identity and access management, cloud security, and security engineering. • Demonstrated experience managing and responding to complex cybersecurity incidents in enterprise environments. • Deep understanding of enterprise security architecture, security controls, risk management, and secure-by-design principles. • Strong knowledge of security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, digital forensics, and incident response practices. • Experience developing security metrics, operational KPIs, SLAs, and executive-level reporting. • Experience with public cloud platforms and cloud security architectures. • Strong understanding of cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application security concepts. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams during high-severity incidents and crisis situations. • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting to executive leadership. • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, or equivalent are a plus but not required. • Experience leading security organizations within SaaS, cloud-native, or highly regulated environments. • Experience leading a 24x7 SOC, managed detection and response partnership, or global security operations program. • Experience developing multi-year security transformation or modernization programs. • Experience with security automation, orchestration, and large-scale incident response process optimization. • Experience developing threat intelligence, threat hunting, and adversary simulation programs. • Experience supporting cyber crisis management, breach response, and executive incident communications. • Knowledge of cloud-native security monitoring and incident response within public cloud environments. • Experience managing globally distributed security teams and third-party service providers. • Demonstrated success building high-performing technical teams and developing future security leaders. • Proven success building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing security operations and incident response teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy benefits, Life Insurance and AD&D) • Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts • Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability • Comprehensive 401(k) plan • Generous Parental Leave • Unrestricted paid time off (known as Discretionary Time Off - DTO) • Wellness Program, including ClassPass & Employee Assistance Program • Tuition Reimbursement • Optional Benefits: Pet Insurance, Identity Theft Protection, Student Debt Repayment Program and Prepaid Legal coverage

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