Senior Director, Cyber Defense (Cybersecurity)

Location: Lehi, Utah, United States; hybrid workplace

Company

hirify.global develops and operates a multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platform.

What you will do

• Define and execute the cyber defense strategy and multi-year operational roadmap.
• Serve as Incident Commander for significant security incidents, coordinating triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and business decisions.
• Lead detection, alerting, investigation, incident response playbooks, severity models, escalation paths, and regional handoffs.
• Brief enterprise clients and executive stakeholders during high-severity incidents, including root-cause analyses and remediation updates.
• Present cyber metrics, threat assessments, and operational maturity benchmarks to executives, audit committees, and board stakeholders.
• Use approved GenAI tools to automate routine work while auditing outputs and protecting proprietary and personally identifiable information.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, or cyber defense.
• Proven leadership of enterprise security operations, incident response, or cyber defense programs.
• Expert incident command and incident response capabilities in high-stakes environments.
• Experience with executive-level customer engagement and client briefings during severe incidents.
• Experience building or maturing SOC and incident response organizations under rigorous audit, compliance, and governance controls.
• Strong executive communication, crisis management, prioritization, and high-pressure decision-making skills.

Nice to have

• Executive security credentials such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, GCIH, or GCFA.
• Experience with cyber defense and incident command for multi-tenant, cloud-native SaaS platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Leadership experience with SOAR, SIEM/XDR analytics, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Knowledge of SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FedRAMP, GDPR, and CCPA.
• Master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information technology, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Lehi, Utah.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Security, Technology, Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Compliance, Legal, Communications, and Customer Success.
• Work focused on enterprise security posture, operational resilience, regulatory alignment, and responsible AI use.