Job Description Summary

As the Sr. Director - Cyber Threat Operations, you will leverage your leadership and cybersecurity expertise to protect GE Vernova’s global brand, products, customers, and business partners. This role aligns day-to-day operations with long-term enterprise strategy, building the resilience, efficiency, and agility needed to anticipate and respond to emerging threats. By driving operational excellence, innovation, and measurable risk reduction, the role ensures that security is not just a control function, but a strategic enabler of trust, growth, and competitive advantage.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

Team Culture: Foster a culture of learning, continual improvement, execution, and accountability to protect the company and increase costs for adversaries.

• Operational Leadership: Own the business rhythm for the Threat Management organization, including leadership meetings, quarterly reviews, and strategic planning.
• Strategic Alignment: Serve as the primary conduit between the Threat Management leader and cross-functional teams, ensuring priorities are clearly defined, resourced, and tracked.
• Crisis Coordination Oversight: Oversee the team responsible for cross-functional crisis coordination during cyber incidents. Ensure processes, playbooks, and escalation paths are in place and effective.
• Cyber Reporting: Lead the development and delivery of regulatory and voluntary cyber reporting (e.g., ISAC, DoD, sector-specific requirements), ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.
• Program Execution: Drive execution of key initiatives spanning multiple functions, removing obstacles and accelerating results.
• Performance & Metrics: Establish and maintain dashboards and reporting mechanisms to measure progress against strategic goals.
• Decision Support: Prepare executive summaries, data-driven briefs, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Policy & Process Improvement: Continuously refine policies, procedures, and operational practices to enhance efficiency and resilience.
• Budget & Resource Management: Support planning and management of budgets and resource allocation for the organization.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or STEM majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) or 7+ years of relevant experience in Cybersecurity.
• 3+ years in a leadership role within a Cyber-related discipline.

Desired Characteristics:

• Team-oriented, with a bias for action and execution.
• Passionate about the work, problem-solving, and raising costs for adversaries.
• Collaborative, striving to break down silos, empower, and inspire a globally remote team.
• Experience with strategic planning and management, including budget, organization, and personnel decisions.
• Embraces contemporary and modern approaches.
• Experience working with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, SaaS, etc.).
• Strategically plans program execution by understanding how best to expose/protect against risk.
• Understanding of cloud technologies and complex platform-integrated systems. Capable of designing technical implementation plans around integrating platform systems.
• Drives continuous improvement of controls in both ease of execution and completeness and accuracy of control artifacts.

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