Make your mark at the world’s largest HVAC company!

Daikin Applied is in search of a talented Sr. Director – Platform, Product & Information Security Officer (PISO) to join our dynamic team. The PISO plays a crucial role in assuring the security posture of an organization, its platforms, assets and its revenue generating offerings, ensuring business continuity, integrity competitiveness, and success.

What you will do:

Strategic Planning: Develop and implement the Digital Security (DS) strategy aligned with the organization's overall business and growth strategy.
Information Security (IS): Develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive Information Security framework enabling the overall Digital organizational strategy, while ensuring regulatory compliance, industry best practices, continuity and trust. Foster a culture of risk awareness, collaboration, and continuous security improvement by facilitating an appropriate cybersecurity infrastructure, providing solutions, and driving optimal outcomes across all Digital departments.
Platform & Product Security (PPS): Develop, implement and maintain a robust Platform and Product Security framework that ensures alignment to requisite regulatory compliance requirements, industry best practices, delivery standards, customer assurance expectations, and assures competitive advantages. Foster a culture of agility, collaboration, and continuous security improvement by facilitating innovation, secure by design principles, engineering excellence, and risk management for all stakeholders, and across all Digital departments and relevant functions.
Security Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC): Enable, improve and administer security policies, processes, procedures, standards and guidelines to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance across all Digital projects and initiatives. Govern security risk identification, management, and compliance processes, procedures, tolerances and standards to ensure consistency, quality, and continuity across Digital. Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, industry standards, and best practices. Support and deliver audits and certifications as required.
Security Testing (ST): Design, implement, and provide dynamic Security Testing support to appropriately enable all Digital functions, projects and initiatives. Deliver capabilities that will identify security risk, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, assess security postures, and provide actionable insights to strengthen requisite defenses.
Security Operations (SecOps): Develop and maintain functional support to monitor, detect, respond to, and recover from security threats and incidents. Provide security analytics and reporting, as well as KPI and metric tracking. Deliver all other critical operational functions, which may include, but are not limited to, vulnerability management (VM), incident response and coordination (IR), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Support (DR/BC). Provide as needed security awareness and training, enablement of M&A activities, and any necessary cross-functional organizational support to ensure the success of the Digital strategy and mission.
Roadmap: Define and maintain the Digital Security roadmap that supports current and future business needs, ensuring scalability, continuity, and efficiency.
Collaboration: Work closely with senior stakeholders, including C-suite executives, to understand business objectives and translate them into actionable Digital Security plans. Define and maintain a roadmap that supports current and future business needs, ensuring scalability, security, and efficiency.
Leadership: Lead a team of security and technical experts, providing guidance, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
Vendor Management: Evaluate third-party solutions and manage vendor relationships to ensure they align with the Digital Security strategy and meet business requirements.
Communication: Communicate the Digital Security strategy, plans, and principles to technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering understanding and support across the organization.

What’s in it for you:

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage, PTO, 401K match, support for community involvement and much more
The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field
10 years of experience with progressive responsibilities. Ideally starting in development and up through leadership

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Technical Skills: Deep understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and methodologies. Practical experience in information technology and infrastructure. Proficiency in platform and product security, product delivery and maintenance, cloud computing, security principles, and emerging technologies.
Leadership Skills: Strong leadership and managerial abilities, with experience in leading and developing a cybersecurity team and organization. Progressive experience leading a governance and support function while balancing business performance requirements. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels.
Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand complex technical and business requirements. Ability to balance system performance concurrently with appropriate and effective security controls.
Strategic Vision: Proven track record in developing and implementing cybersecurity strategies that align with business goals and drive organizational success.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Strategic Thinker: Ability to think strategically and align technical solutions and security controls with business objectives.
Adaptability: Willingness to stay current with technological and cybersecurity advancements, and adapt strategies accordingly.
Team Player: Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
Integrity: Commitment to maintaining high ethical standards and confidentiality.
Industry Experience: Demonstrated success in commercial HVAC and controls. Direct experience supporting customer requirements, channel, dealers, and distributors; participation at industry events and trades, such as ASHRAE.
Cybersecurity Thought Leadership: Active participation on security industry boards, standards committees, panels, and trade organizations; publications, presentations, and contributions to the security community.
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field

Location(s)

Remote - Plymouth, MN

Area of Interest

Finance and IT

About Us

Building a more sustainable planet. Creating comfortable, healthy spaces for people to connect, live and work. Perfecting the air we share.

Daikin Applied is not just an HVAC company. We're part of a global technology powerhouse that uses Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) to transform the world. We're innovators and leaders. Not only as a business, but as individuals.

We invest in our people, and our people invest in our customers and communities. This mutual commitment is the reason for our dynamic growth. So is an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to come to work as their whole selves and come together as a team that welcomes unique ideas, perspectives and backgrounds.

You see, we're not just innovating on the outside. We're innovating on the inside to unlock people's unlimited potential and bring out the diverse and groundbreaking ideas that will help us solve today's most pressing challenges.

That's why Daikin offers more than a job. Here's where you'll be heard, be valued, belong -- and be able to make your mark.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

It is the policy of Daikin Applied to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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