Customer Security Officer (Field CISO)

• Partner with area sales leadership and account teams in developing long term strategic plans for key must win accounts in your area.
• Engage with customer CISO and other C-suite executives, to understand their strategic objectives. Develop and nurture trusted advisor relationships helping CISO mature their security program by establishing the foundation for best of breed as well best of platform security program architecture leveraging industry frameworks and standards.
• Develop strategic, operational, and tactical recommendations tailored to each customer with the intent of improving customer security posture and compliance position, aligned with their business goals and risk tolerance.
• Monitor and analyze emerging security trends, share insights with customers as well as our area leadership and guiding them through the potential impacts on their industry.
• Be the trusted Security partner between Microsoft and our strategic customers in developing, implementing, and executing on their security priorities, driving customer intent to buy and post sales deployment.
• Advise, coach, and train the area leadership on MS security solution value prop and positioning. Be the SME supporting area senior leaders on security conversations in executive forums as CISO round-tables, etc.
• In alignment with Microsoft’s key priorities, establish customers’ security strategy and ensure execution of said strategy with key C-suite customer stakeholders.
• Lead Security presentations, demonstrations, and workshops in Industry forums to provide thought leadership on Microsoft’s Security portfolio.

• 10+ years of Industry experience, with 3-5 years as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), with direct responsibility for developing security strategies for global companies and/or governments and overseeing the implementation and execution of said strategies; OR equivalent experience. A career profile that will enable the candidate to be a credible and compelling security executive and trusted advisor to C-level executives with proven ability to build and sustain relationships with external stakeholders in a strategic manner.
• Broad information security competency, covering Identity and Access Management, Security Operations (SOC), network security, SDL, cryptography, key management, hardware security modules, security architecture and design, operations security, legal/risk/compliance, and physical security.
• Deep and broad knowledge of security issues & trends, able to articulate the high-level Microsoft security strategy to both technical & non-technical audiences with a detailed understanding of Microsoft 365 and Azure security frameworks, all service-level security capabilities (including details of defense-in-depth implementation – data encryption, data isolation, lock box, customer key, datacenter security, etc.), and all customer controls (identity & access management, RMS, encryption, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of security principles, compliance standards and ability to apply them in diverse business contexts., with detailed understanding of current compliance status for industry standard security & audit frameworks (such as ISO27001, HIPAA, SSAE16, FISMA, NIST2, etc.), and compliance features.
• Experienced & credible communicator who can cast security in the language of the business, discussing Microsoft’s security strategy with CISO & other C-level executives and senior government representatives and comfortable navigating in complex and high-pressure sales scenarios.
• Demonstrate ability to influence without authority to drive change with both our strategic customers as well as internal stakeholders.
• In alignment with Microsoft’s key priorities, establish customers’ security strategy and ensure execution of said strategy with key C-suite customer stakeholders.
• Lead Security presentations, demonstrations, and workshops in Industry forums to provide thought leadership on Microsoft’s Security portfolio.

• Develop and maintain industry expertise: The Customer Security Officer must stay up to date with the latest developments and advancements in security including new tech, competitors, and internal product and services offerings.
• Growth Mindset: Experience and passion for learning; implementing practices from others; trying, failing, and learning from both successes and failures; sharing practices and knowledge for others’ benefit.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and develop innovative solutions to technical challenges.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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