Principal, Security Alignment

The Principal, Security Alignment reports directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and serves as the primary security advisor and strategic partner between Corporate Information Security and regional business operations.

The organization operates a federated business model where corporate functions establish enterprise capabilities, standards, and guardrails while regional teams maintain autonomy in executing their business objectives. This role exists to ensure regional execution aligns with enterprise security expectations while enabling business velocity and operational flexibility.

The Principal, Security Alignment will partner with regional leadership teams to understand business processes, professional services delivery models, customer commitments, internally developed solutions, data handling practices, and operational workflows. The role will provide the CISO organization with visibility into regional practices, identify areas of risk, drive alignment to enterprise standards, and establish sustainable accountability mechanisms.

Success requires the ability to operate as a trusted business advisor — influencing without direct authority, translating security requirements into practical business outcomes, and helping regions mature without creating unnecessary friction.

Key Responsibilities

Regional Security Partnership & Advisory

• Establish trusted relationships with regional executives and operational leaders.
• Serve as the primary security advisor connecting regional business operations with the Enterprise Information Security organization.
• Understand regional priorities, customer requirements, delivery practices, and operational challenges.
• Help regional teams interpret and operationalize enterprise security standards.
• Ensure security considerations are incorporated into regional decision-making processes.

Business Process & Operational Risk Visibility

• Assess regional business practices to identify potential security, privacy, compliance, and operational risks.
• Evaluate areas including:
  • Professional services delivery practices
  • Customer data handling
  • Customer environment access
  • Internally developed tools and automation
  • AI adoption and usage
  • Third-party/vendor usage
  • Data movement and storage practices
  • Customer contractual security obligations
• Identify inconsistencies between regional execution and enterprise expectations.

Security Governance & Accountability

• Develop a scalable governance model that balances corporate oversight with regional autonomy.
• Define clear ownership expectations between corporate security and regional leadership.
• Create visibility mechanisms that allow risks to be identified proactively.
• Establish regional security operating rhythms, reporting, and accountability structures.
• Ensure exceptions, deviations, and business-driven decisions are documented and understood.

CISO Risk Visibility & Executive Reporting

• Provide the CISO with ongoing visibility into regional security maturity, emerging risks, and operational trends.
• Develop executive-level reporting around:
  • Regional alignment
  • Key risk indicators
  • Security maturity
  • Remediation progress
  • Areas requiring leadership escalation
• Escalate material concerns where business practices create unacceptable enterprise risk.

Security Enablement & Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities to simplify adoption of corporate security capabilities.
• Reduce friction between security requirements and regional execution.
• Create reusable playbooks, processes, and frameworks.
• Promote consistency without eliminating appropriate regional flexibility.
• Build a culture where security is viewed as a business enabler.

First Six-Month Objectives

Within the first six months, this leader will:

• Complete security/business assessments across all eight regions.
• Establish relationships with regional leadership teams.
• Create a regional security maturity baseline.
• Identify high-priority risks and improvement opportunities.
• Define the corporate/regional responsibility model.
• Establish recurring governance and reporting cadence.
• Implement regional security scorecards.
• Deliver a prioritized roadmap for long-term maturity.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in information security, risk management, technology leadership, consulting, or business operations.
• Experience operating in federated, decentralized, or matrixed organizations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security governance, risk management, and operational controls.
• Experience partnering with executive business stakeholders.
• Ability to influence teams without direct reporting authority.
• Experience translating security concepts into business outcomes.
• Strong executive communication and reporting skills.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• The ideal candidate is a business-minded security executive who understands that effective security requires partnership, influence, and operational awareness.
• This individual can move comfortably between executive conversations and operational details, identifying where business execution creates risk while helping teams achieve objectives securely.
• They are equally comfortable advising regional leaders, discussing customer delivery models, reviewing business workflows, and briefing the CISO on enterprise-level risk.
• This role is not designed to centralize regional decision-making — it is designed to create alignment, visibility, accountability, and trust.