Chief of Staff: Security Engineering at Silicon Valley Bank in Tempe, Arizona

Job Description:

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Job Description

The Chief of Staff: Security Engineering is a critical, trusted leadership role as the strategic right-hand person/ Chief of Staff to the Sr. Director of Security Engineering. This role will lead strategic business planning, support, and direct change management throughout the organization, and will be instrumental in driving key business outcomes. Cybersecurity is an integral part of our SVB culture, and as a growing financial institution, it's vital that we all play our part in keeping customers' data secure. We will arm you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results. As the Chief of Staff to the Sr. Director of Security Engineering, you'll be enthused by getting stuck into various security sector and data related projects, as well as the chance to work with people from a range of disciplines, and colleagues and clients at every level.

This role will work closely with the Sr. Director of Security Engineering in the following ways:

• Trusted advisor and brainstorming partner


• Thought Leader and guide to help lead and initiate change throughout the organization


• Helping strategic ideas take root and providing early facilitation until a more formal project is established


• Thinking strategically while providing tactical support to implement ideas


• Helping develop deep trusted relationships across the enterprise


• Providing independent, informed, unbiased insights including on the ground feedback

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop strategic OKRs for key business outcomes as well as partner with the rest of the organization to develop OKRs for their respective functional areas aligned to the overall strategic OKRs


• Develop a cohesive approach for Change Management across the organization including communications planning, training, and stakeholder management


• Develop strategic Communication Plan to develop deep relationships with key stakeholders across the company, as well as to communicate timely and transparently with the rest of the organization


• Develop strategic Workforce Management plan with an eye towards reducing ongoing costs by developing teams at the Global Delivery Center in India


• Lead Employee Engagement across the organization


• Collaborate with the leadership team, and other key stakeholders (like Technology, Info Security, HR, Finance, Data Stewards etc.) to track, analyze and report our performance against established OKRs

Requirements:

• Proven track record of developing and delivering complex cyber transformation programs


• Exceptional communication skills - presentations, verbal, and written


• Pragmatic approach to solving complex problems with a bias for action


• Strategy development experience, including using market research and outside-in analysis to formulate future state


• Experience with driving complex enterprise-wide change through traditional and out-of-the-box change management processes


• Outcome focused with an extremely positive and resilient attitude, comfortable with a rapidly changing and dynamic environment

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Silicon Valley Bank is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to expanding its commitments and investments to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive company culture and innovation ecosystem. We are strongly committed to the values and policy of equal employment opportunity across our employment practices.

Silicon Valley Bank is registered in England and Wales at Alphabeta, 14-18 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1BR, UK under No. FC029579. Silicon Valley Bank is authorised and regulated by the California Department of Business Oversight and the United States Federal Reserve Bank; authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority with number 577295; and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority and limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority. Details about the extent of our regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority are available from us on request.

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