Director, Cyber Security Operations
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Job Location:
Waltham, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 221000 - 270000
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Ardelyx is a publicly traded commercial biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx has two commercial products approved in the United States IBSRELA (tenapanor) and XPHOZAH (tenapanor). Ardelyx has agreements for the development and commercialization of tenapanor outside of the U.S. Kyowa Kirin commercializes PHOZEVEL (tenapanor) for hyperphosphatemia in Japan. A New Drug Application for tenapanor for hyperphosphatemia has been approved in China with Fosun Pharma. Knight Therapeutics commercializes IBSRELA in Canada.
Position Summary:
The Director Cyber Security Operations is the senior leader responsible for developing implementing and operating Ardelyxs global cybersecurity program. This role provides strategic direction builds and leads a high-performing security organization and ensures the confidentiality integrity and availability of corporate systems data and cloud environments.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned cybersecurity leader who combines deep technical expertise with strong strategic vision operational rigor and the ability to communicate effectively with executives auditors engineers and cross-functional partners. This leader will own and execute a scalable security roadmap that aligns with Ardelyxs business objectives regulatory requirements and evolving threat landscape while continuously improving the organizations overall risk posture.
Responsibilities:
- Own and execute the enterprise cybersecurity strategy roadmap and operating model aligned with business and technology objectives
- Build lead and mature a high-performing security organization spanning engineering operations governance and risk management
- Serve as the primary advisor to executive leadership on cybersecurity risk threat exposure and security investments enabling informed risk-based decision-making
- Establish enforce and continuously improve security policies standards and controls while driving a strong culture of security awareness across the organization
- Oversee enterprise threat detection monitoring and incident response capabilities across on-prem cloud and SaaS environments
- Lead incident response preparedness and execution including tabletop exercises and real-time coordination with Legal HR Compliance and Communications during security events
- Own the security architecture and tooling strategy including endpoint cloud identity SaaS network and web security platforms
- Drive security automation and orchestration (SOAR) to improve response consistency and reduce MTTD/MTTR
- Apply defense-in-depth principles enterprise-wide proactively identifying control gaps and implementing remediation or compensating controls
- Lead security platform consolidation and vendor management to standardize controls reduce tool sprawl and lower total cost of ownership while ensuring compliance and audit readiness
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Information Security Computer Science Information Technology or related field with 9 12 years of progressive cybersecurity experience or equivalent experience
- 5 years in a senior leadership role with responsibility for enterprise security strategy operations and risk management.
- Industry-recognized cybersecurity certifications preferred such as: CISM CISSP CRISC CCSP
- Proven hands-on and leadership experience across core security domains including identity and access management (IAM MFA SSO) cloud security (Azure/AWS) endpoint protection (EDR/XDR) network security incident response and threat management
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise security programs including SIEM vulnerability management security automation compliance frameworks (ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIST HIPAA GDPR) vendor management audits and contract negotiations; familiarity with DevOps CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code is a plus
- Strong executive communication skills with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact
- Recognized as a trusted security leader and mentor across IT and cross-functional teams
- Proven ability to influence standards patterns and best practices at an enterprise level
Location:
Waltham Massachusetts
The anticipated annualized base pay range for this full-time position is $221000 - $270000. Ardelyx utilizes industry data to ensure that our compensation is competitive and aligned with our industry peers. Actual base pay will be determined based on a variety of factors including years of relevant experience training qualifications and internal equity. The compensation package may also include an annual bonus target and equity awards subject to eligibility and other requirements.
Ardelyx also offers a robust benefits package to employees including a 401(k) plan with generous employer match 12 weeks of paid parental leave up to 12 weeks of living organ and bone marrow leave equity incentive plans health plans (medical prescription drug dental and vision)life insurance and disability flexible time off annual Winter Holiday shut down and at least 11 paid holidays.
Ardelyx is an equal opportunity employer.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Employee Relations
- Employee Evaluation
- Management Experience
- Profit & Loss
- Conflict Management
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Budgeting
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Leadership management
- Financial Planning
About Company
From discovery through commercialisation, all of us at Ardelyx are driven to advance targeted therapies where significant medical needs persist.
