Director of Cyber Security

The role

You will lead a global team of security engineers and set direction for technical security programs. You will partner with the CISO to execute the cybersecurity strategy and work with engineering and infrastructure partners to secure systems and people.

What you will do

• Partner with the CISO and senior teammates to define and execute the cyber security strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Lead, mentor, and support a global team of security engineers.
• Own day-to-day operations of the security program including threat detection, response, vulnerability management, and endpoint security.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to embed security into systems.
• Manage vendor relationships and contribute to budget planning.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and career development of team members.
• Explore and champion the use of AI and automation.
• Evaluate emerging threats and technologies, including AI security implications.

Required qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressive experience in cybersecurity or a closely related field, including significant people-leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success building or maturing security programs in a complex, technology-driven environment.
• Strong experience across multiple security domains such as security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, IAM, cloud security, application security, or security architecture.
• Strong technical skills in endpoint and server operating systems (especially Linux), computer networking, firewalls, and Kubernetes.
• General understanding of security and compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, CIS, SOC 2, PCI-DSS).
• Excellent communication skills to explain technical risk to executives, engineers, and business partners.
• Experience developing meaningful security metrics and reporting progress to senior leadership.
• Capacity to thrive in a hybrid working model, including the ability to attend the Concord office at least 3 days a week.

Nice to have

• A degree in a relevant field
• Curiosity about emerging technologies, including how AI and automation can improve security operations

Benefits

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace
• Company-wide week off a year
• No meeting Fridays
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts

About the company

KAYAK is a leading travel search engine and part of Booking Holdings. It operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined.