Senior Director

Senior Director, Information Security Business Operations

R020341

InfoSec is searching for a passionate leader that looks at challenges as opportunities. We are a growing team that is looking for someone who can be a strategic and supportive partner. The ideal candidate will have strong Workforce, Procurement, Contract, Operations, and Communication experience. We care about delivering business value, solving problems, team synergy, and most importantly, bringing a positive attitude to work every day. This position will report to the Information Security Chief of Staff.

Workforce Management

• Partner with HR to drive employee retention, inclusion, diversity, and employee wellness programs.
• Facilitate a healthy work culture that adheres to the InfoSec 11 principles.
• Establishes strategies, policies, program standards, and critical measurements for the team by assessing and managing Information Security hiring, onboarding, and offboarding processes within SLA.
• Create a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning to mature the Business Operations Team.
• Streamline Security workforce process improvements to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness. Implement a Self-services model to alleviate pain points for hiring managers.
• Develops performance indicators and reporting mechanisms to measure operating standards and facilitate effective workforce management functions.

Procurement, And Contracts

• Lead vendor management with oversight and performance strategy, including tracking and reporting KPI’s by establishing processes and controls to enhance value and minimize risk.
• Understand the business, vendors, partners, and technology to facilitate and support the company through growth and transformation.
• Lead and/or manage the Information Security licensing agreements, including renewal, new business, invoicing, credit holds, receivable issues, consolidations, and Infosec budgets and contracts.
• Evaluate, negotiate, and facilitate the execution of contracts, such as NDAs, orders, SOW, MSA, and related Information Security agreements.

Business Operations & SLT Support

• Support the VP of Business Operations’ workload, management of back-office responsibilities, and providing support on key issues.
• Partner with all security pillars, technical departments, security domains, and Business Units
• Create Business Operations dashboards to provide senior leadership with overall Information Security department health and visibility into individual program status, focusing on risk mitigation and issue resolution.
• Partner with Information Security leaders and provide support to their key initiatives. Help employees through their needs to ensure responsiveness of existing operations.

Security Culture, Awareness, and Training & Enterprise Communication

• Support the enterprise Information Security awareness program implementation and promote effective awareness across the organization through collaborative processes of positive training encouragement.
• Manage all enterprise internal and external communication plans to convey the Information Security approach and business value outcomes effectively.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a senior management role. Consulting experience with a focus on operations management is highly desired
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or a similar field
• Minimum of 5 years of Project/Program Management with an organization of +10 thousand employees.
• Experienced leader with a blend of superior strategic, operational, program/project management, and leadership skills.
• Strong technology background, preferably in IT or Information Security experience
• Strong program management skills, including demonstrated ability to think end-to-end, lead long-term programs, and manage multiple programs simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
• Ability to respectfully handle multiple commitments/critical issues with customers, internal leadership, staff and operations.
• Validated skills of strong learning agility and relationship building to influence change using knowledge and relationships.

We love hearing from anyone who is enthusiastic about changing the games industry. Not sure you meet all qualifications? Let us decide! Research shows that women and members of other under-represented groups tend to not apply to jobs when they think they may not meet every qualification, when, in fact, they often do! We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and strongly encourage you to apply.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable assistance to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you are a disabled individual requiring an accommodation to apply for an open position, please email your request to accommodationrequests@activisionblizzard.com General employment questions cannot be accepted or processed here. Thank you for your interest.

Our World

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI), is one of the world's largest and most successful interactive entertainment companies and is at the intersection of media, technology and entertainment. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™ and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users in 196 countries, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!

Our ability to build immersive and innovate worlds is only enhanced by diverse teams working in an inclusive environment. We aspire to have a culture where everyone can thrive in order to connect and engage the world through epic entertainment. We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered!

The videogame industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, among other characteristics.

Rewards

We provide a suite of benefits that promote physical, emotional and financial well-being for ‘Every World’ - we’ve got our employees covered! Subject to eligibility requirements, the Company offers comprehensive benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance;
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching;
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave;
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others;
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.

Eligibility to participate in these benefits may vary for part time and temporary full-time employees and interns with the Company. You can learn more by visiting https://www.benefitsforeveryworld.com/.

In the U.S., the standard base pay range for this role is $164,800.00 - $304,800.00 Annual. This base pay range is for the U.S. and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role may be eligible for incentive compensation. Incentive compensation is not guaranteed.