PayPal BISO Merchant 

United States, Ohio, Toledo 

300802411

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recognized as a security expert, independently resolving the most complex security challenges and providing strategic direction on problem resolution across the security domain.
• Define methods and procedures for new or special assignments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive security initiatives that align with business needs and objectives.
• Lead complex, high-impact security projects of diverse scope, applying an in-depth understanding of business trends and security challenges to develop innovative solutions.
• Possess a keen awareness of the broader impact of decisions, with initiatives often leading to enterprise-wide improvements that enhance security practices and operational efficiency.
• Lead a security engineering team; set clear priorities and define actionable plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Guide team members through complex challenges, fostering their growth and development while maintaining a focus on high-impact results.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Previous management experience

Your day to day

• Drive and inform information security strategies aligned with business objectives

• Serve as the primary security advisor to business unit leaders; coordinate collective engagement across the security organization

• Translate complex security concepts into business terms and requirements

• Build relationships with key stakeholders to ensure security is inte3grated into business initiatives

• Ensure business leaders understand the cybersecurity risk profile of their organizations, products, and strategic decisions

• Lead a team of cybersecurity consultants to address business stakeholder needs and questions

• Lead independent and cross-functional projects to evaluate high-priority security and technology topics, issues, and risks in relation to PayPals products, people, processes, and technology.

• Work with key partners to propose, assess, frame, and advocate for changes to PayPals technology and cybersecurity practices, including requirements, guidance, roles, responsibilities, and strategy, based on evolving technologies, risks, industry standards, and compliance requirements.

• Identify and document key decision points, cost-benefit analysis, business trade-offs, technical and security risks, and other relevant factors for decision-makers related to technology and cybersecurity.

• Establish trusted working relationships with key partners across engineering, architecture, risk management, compliance, legal, communications, government relations, and oversight teams.

What you need to bring

• Knowledge of current and emerging information technologies (e.g., AI / ML); cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities; risk management processes and practices; industry standard control frameworks and best practices (e.g., NIST, ISO); and prominent cybersecurity and privacy regulations globally.

• Strong work ethic with proven ability to learn quickly, prioritize work, and manage complex deliverables to completion under established deadlines.

• Willingness to drill down into complex topics as needed to understand and validate key tactical or technical details with strategic level implications, and ability to identify and articulate those big picture considerations for key audiences.

• Superb consultative, adjudicative, investigative, and influencing skills, including business acumen, stakeholder empathy, and conflict resolution, as well as general comfort working in a dynamic, global, fluid, and matrixed working environment.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication and analysis skills, including experience developing high-quality written analysis, strategy, or policy documents

• Prior involvement in analysis, interpretation, and communication of legal or regulatory technology policy requirements.

• Practiced at targeting and delivering written work product and verbal presentations to varied audiences (e.g., executives, engineers, customers, regulators, etc.)

• Unquestionable professional and ethical integrity, ideally demonstrated through experience with projects of a sensitive, privileged, or confidential nature.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500

Our Benefits:

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