Sr. Manager, Cyber Security
About The Weather Company:
The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).
Job brief:
We’re looking for a strategic and hands-on Sr. Manager, Cyber Security to lead initiatives that safeguard our organization’s digital assets and ensure alignment with evolving security standards and business goals. This high-impact role will partner with IT and business leaders to implement secure practices across cloud, AI, and on-premise environments while driving a culture of compliance, continuous improvement, and risk awareness.
As a senior leader, you’ll provide expert guidance on security exceptions, lead policy adoption, and support business continuity and audit functions. You’ll also play a key role in identifying process enhancements, fostering collaboration, and influencing how security is approached across the enterprise.
The impact you'll make:
- Develop ongoing initiatives and collaborate across the IT Service Delivery Teams to ensure compliance with established information security guidelines, standards, and policies.
- Lead engagement with IT & Business teams to drive adoption of Information Security policies and toolsets.
- Consult with business operational leads on security exceptions and risk acceptance actions.
- Minimize vulnerabilities across cloud, AI, and on-prem landscapes.
- Actively participate and support the corporate BCP and audit function.
- Apply and deploy multiple approaches to remove organizational impediments (e.g., cultural barriers, logistic challenges, mindset shifts, etc.)
- Facilitate communication, cooperation, and collaboration across the organization, including continuous feedback loops.
- Challenge current processes, identifying current opportunities for process improvement, efficiency/effectiveness, and consistency to drive continuous improvement in results.
- Collaborate on selecting, monitoring, and reporting specific security metrics to oversight committees and working groups as appropriate and required.
- Contribute to the creation, implementation, and modification of information security policies and procedures.
- Actively monitor industry trends; participate in industry forums, professional associations, conferences, etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
What you've accomplished:
- 8+ years of experience in Cybersecurity and/or Technology, with at least 3 years in a leadership role directing both employees and contractors.
- 4+ years of experience with process manufacturing industry, regulatory, and legal requirements.
- Demonstrated curiosity through the ability to apply knowledge to novel scenarios and learn new skillsets.
- Strong knowledge of the following:
- Cyber threats and vulnerabilities
- Operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses
- Cloud security risk and controls
- Firewalls/Routers/Switches
- Web proxies
- Identity and access management systems
- Multi-factor authentication
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a simplified way.
- Excellent presentation and collaboration skills to build credibility, influence action, and foster strong partnerships across multiple functions and levels.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously to successfully manage in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience communicating and removing impediments at both the team level and organizational level, fostering collaboration across organizational boundaries.
- Experience creating scaling mechanisms to deliver value to internal and external customers.
- Solid business and financial acumen to recommend sound business and budgeting decisions.
- Professional security certification(s) such as Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is a plus
- Familiarity or experience applying the methods of Lean and Six Sigma is a plus
- Flexible Time Off program
- Hybrid work model
- A variety of medical insurance options, including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
- Benefits effective day 1 of employment include a competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
- Progressive family plan benefits
- An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
- Impactful work in a collaborative environment
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