Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Senior Vice President, Security Threat and Response Management
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Mission First, People Always
As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the frontlines who make this happen every day. By taking care of our people, their wellbeing, and career development, we provide them the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.
Overview
The Corporate Security ‘Security Threat and Response Management’ (STRM) program is responsible for providing Mastercard the ability to prevent or react to varying physical and logical security concerns; from cyber-attacks and data compromise events, to property theft and physical threats against our staff. This team is responsible for addressing security incidents quickly and effectively. This team is also responsible for enterprise resilience, ensuring business continuity and technical recovery capabilities, in addition to guaranteeing major events, traveler safety, security threat intelligence and executive protection programs are executed with excellence.
Role
The Senior Vice President (SVP) for Security Threat and Response Management:
• Is responsible for planning long term security strategies for the response operations functions, and will work with other teams to maintain and support the Corporate Security strategy.
• Will manage our globally-situated Security Operations Centers, Fusion Centers, and Forensic Labs, and related investigations; Regional Security, Facilities Security, Executive and Event Protection; Crisis Management; Enterprise Resilience; and product management for the technology supporting these functions, globally within Corporate Security.
• Provides updates, and briefings on security to executive management.
• will maintain or improve the security threat and response management program by ensuring forensic, intelligence, and security operations and fusion centers are meeting mission goals.
• Will maintain or improve the enterprise resilience program, ensuring all businesses and technology have the appropriate level of business continuation and technology recovery capabilities.
• Will maintain or improve the security programs needed to ensure the safety of facilities, executives, and major events.
All About You
• Have you ever led the response to a major security or crisis incident?
• Have you overseen the planning and execution of security plans in support of major events or significant protectees?
•Driven strategic organizational change at an enterprise level?
• Have you lead teams that have cross cyber and physical security disciplines?
• A qualified candidate will have 10-15 years of security experience leading across both the physical and logical domains.
• It is essential that the candidate understands the detailed requirements of their security function, while also having the ability to communicate security goals and objectives to company executives.
• A qualified candidate will have a solid network of public and private sector external partners, as well as established relationships across the enterprise, that will be able to help the candidate achieve the goals of the team.
• It is essential that the candidate have experience in the planning and management of core elements of the role such as security intelligence, incident response, major events, business continuity and technology recovery.
• The candidate must have experience developing and delivering strategic security plans.
• The candidate must have demonstrated the ability to effect strategic change of security technology and policy at an enterprise level.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:
· Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
· Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
· Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
· Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.