Director Product Security, Edge Protection

Job Description

The Director of Edge Protection is a leadership role responsible for the enterprise-wide strategy governance and protection of the companys global domain portfolio and external digital ecosystem. This role ensures the security resilience and operational excellence of all public-facing and internal websites domains and edge-facing services. The Director partners closely with Legal Trademarks Marketing Corporate Affairs IT and Security teams to safeguard corporate assets support market enablement and reduce cyber risk.

This leader owns the end-to-end operating model for domain lifecycle management edge protection WAF engineering secure external SDLC external attack surface management DDoS readiness registrar/vendor management data integrity and M&A domain integrations. The role brings strong business acumen to balance enterprise risk financial stewardship and strategic execution across divisions.

Required Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science Cybersecurity Information Systems Engineering or related field.

• 7 yearsin IT cybersecurity cloud/edge security or product/application security.

• Demonstrated experience withData Loss Prevention (DLP)technologies including endpoint email and web DLP.

• Significant experience withDNS TLS/SSL CDN WAF website security and external digital asset protection.

• Proven leadership indomain portfolio governance registrar/vendor management and global domain lifecycle operations.

• Experience operating enterprise-scaleExternal Attack Surface Management (EASM)

• Experience with Secure Systems Development Lifecycle programs.

• Experience collaborating with Legal Marketing and Corporate Affairs leadership.

• Experience leading global teams or cross-functional security programs.

Required Skills

• Deep technical expertise in:

  • DNS domain governance SSL/TLS

  • CDN/WAF platforms

  • Public cloud hosting patterns (AWS preferred)

  • Website security OWASP Top 10 CI/CD pipeline integration

  • EASM bug bounty workflows and external threat analysis

  • DLP policies monitoring and tuning

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder alignment capabilities.

• Ability to translate complex cyber risk into actionable business decisions.

• Strong financial management skills including budgeting and vendor negotiation.

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• Masters degree preferred

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