Director, Governance and Risk

Director, Governance And Risk

The Director for Cyber Technical serves as an experienced technology leader in Capital One's Cyber organization as part of the Governance & Risk team. This is a visible, strategic, and high-impact leadership role as an advocate for continuous cyber program and process maturation. This individual is a cyber expert with a capacity to lead experts and also possesses the qualities of a skilled cyber governance Subject Matter Expert (SME). This individual brings operational depth and breadth across a broad range of cyber functions.

We are seeking a dedicated and disciplined governance and risk professional, who excels in a team environment, displays strong leadership skills, and motivates others. They must be proficient in managing and directing their own work independently, while influencing partners across the company and across multiple levels of the organization.

This person will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, strong analytical skills, quickly adapt to change, and is self motivated.

Responsibilities include :

• Plays a key leadership role within Cyber's community of leaders, developing, communicating, and driving a risk-based and data-driven strategy and outcome-driven roadmaps in collaboration with peers across Technology, Lines of Business, and horizontal functions.
• Analyze and select alternatives based on threat, risk, desirability, feasibility, and viability.
• Keep abreast of advances in industry to address the threat landscape.
• Instills a culture that works toward the highest standards in cyber (safeguard the business) while ensuring that business requirements are understood and adhered to (enabling the business).
• With an innovative mindset, employs new cyber assurance approaches to mitigate risk around current and anticipated risks and / or breaches.
• Advances the company's overall mission to assess, improve and monitor cyber across the enterprise.
• Builds relationships, influences and collaborates with second-line Cyber Risk Management partners, as well as executives across both technology and the business.
• Guides the acquisition of professional services and tools for effective cyber governance.
• Establishes credibility throughout the organization by earning the reputation for being a dedicated leader and change agent.
• Facilitate build vs. buy decisions to identify optimal strategies for addressing business and technology risks
• Develop and lead RFI / RFPs to assess the market and / or procure effective cyber solutions.
• Manage product level budgets, roadmaps, and strategies to lead service area direction out 18+ months.
• Maintain technical and risk credibility with your own team and with partners across the enterprise.
• Maintain close ties to various stakeholders, developers, and engineers across the company, ensuring the services we create meet their needs as products evolve.
• Iterate quickly and see the products through to production and scale.
• Establish product value propositions, metrics, and key indicators.

Basic Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Capital One does not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA : $263,900 - $301,200 for Director, Cyber Technical

New York, NY : $287,800 - $328,500 for Director, Cyber Technical

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter. This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and / or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability / vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.