Strategic Business Partnership (50%)

• Act as a link between news activities, journalists and our centralized cybersecurity functions, ensuring that security initiatives are aligned with business goals and priorities.
• Promoting a culture of security awareness and accountability.
• Lead the adoption and enforcement of Global Information and Content Security policies and standards across the business lines.
• Foster a strong security culture and technical security measures within WBD’s global news activities and journalistic functions.

Technical Security Delivery (30%)

• Provide direction and supervision on security-related projects and initiatives, ensuring compliance with global security standards and best practices.
• Evaluate and recommend security solutions and tools that enhance the security posture and capabilities of news operations.
• Handle security exceptions for Global news operations, ensuring proper documentation, approval, and review processes are followed.
• Support security operations and other teams in the identification, investigation, and mitigation of cyber security incidents.
• Partner with other GICS leadership to drive the adoption of core security services (Identity and Access Management, Logging and Monitoring, Detection and Response, Vulnerability Management, Product Security, Cloud Security, and Content Security) throughout global news operations.

Qualifications & Experience...

• Ability to work a hybrid model (3 days onsite) out of downtown DC office.
• Executive presence, technical security expertise, business acumen, communication skills and alignment focus.
• Being accountable, project driven, results oriented, willingness to be constantly learning new things, open minded, ability to articulate sometimes complex technical security topics and articulate risks in a language that the business finds meaningful and use that information to make more informed decisions.
• 10+ years of supervisory or management experience in a technical security environment.
• Solid knowledge of various regulatory requirements and information security control frameworks (ISO, NIST, PCI, GDPR, CCPA, SOX).
• Strong understanding of audit/risk management methodologies and regulatory requirements pertaining to information security, privacy and/or data security
• Hands-on experience with security practices such as security incident response and risk management.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, specifically the ability to communicate within the context of the intended audience, whether that be senior executives or highly technical engineering resources.
• Good understanding of Industry trends and emerging threats.
• Experience in leading projects leveraging global teams with matrix resources.
• Extensive experience in the information security field designing and implementing enterprise security solutions in a global context.
• Should possess proficiency in the technical aspects of cyber security, such as:
• Cloud infrastructure and concepts, specifically the security aspects thereof
• Application security topics such as the OWASP top 10.
• SIEM & logging tools
• Vulnerability Management and EDR/XDR toolsets.
• Network and Compute architectures
• Identity & Access Management and Privileged Access Management

The Nice to Haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or other related discipline preferred or 10+ years of previous technical security experience, e.g., architecture, engineering, or InfoSec Director level.
• Experience in providing Cybersecurity services and modeling for Media, Broadcast & Entertainment companies.
• Security certifications are a plus (CISSP, CISM, CISA, SANS, etc.)

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.