Director of Security Assurance & Trust at Collibra · London

Joining Collibra’s Field Security team

The Field Security team acts as the critical bridge between our Field teams and our customers, ensuring customer trust remains our number one priority. We engage with Sales, Product, and Engineering to structure security initiatives that add business value and foster high levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Our customers are our true north, and we live this value by consulting directly with strategically important customers to provide resolution on significant, business-critical security issues.

This is a hybrid role based in our London office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

The Director of Security Assurance & Trust at Collibra are responsible for

• Strategic Advisor to Sales combining a deep cybersecurity expertise with ability to engage externally with customers, prospects and regulators.
• Excellent Communicator with ability to articulate and own the security narrative and insights to help drive sales.
• Customer-Facing Security Leader acting as a public facing persona representing Collibra’s security posture, roadmap and philosophy.
• Collaborating and negotiating with internal business, product, and functional leadership to define and manage customer requirements, regulations into clear security objectives.
• Analyzing customer needs, requirements, and expectations from a product technical and security perspective to optimally allocate Field Security resources.
• Handling complex, strategically important situations by forming and implementing complex project plans, specifications, and schedules to ensure critical outcomes are met.
• Continually evaluating the security organization’s capability to define, develop, and implement structures and controls that are scalable, resilient, and effective.
• Engaging the full set of stakeholders to ensure appropriate decision-making regarding security analysis, planning, and evolution.

You have

• Extensive 5 - 7 years professional experience in an information security, field security, or customer-facing technical leadership role.
• A proven track record of consulting with senior leadership and enterprise customers on business-critical security concerns and structural/operational implications.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, EU AI Act, DORA etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communications; comfortable presenting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience establishing organizational standards and managing complex project plans in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Deep understanding of multiple security perspectives, including customer business cases, physical infrastructure, and information assurance.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly working alongside Sales, Product, and Engineering teams.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.
• This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

You are

• Analytical, leveraging multiple sources of data to gain a holistic understanding before reaching conclusions and making clear-eyed decisions about field security risks and trade-offs.
• Authentic, demonstrating self-awareness, self-mastery, and a commitment to ongoing reflection that reinforces integrity across the leadership team.
• Inclusive, soliciting diverse opinions, giving others time to think, and leading others to recognize the assumptions and biases that might sway decision-making.
• Adaptable, ensuring a holistic approach to learning and adapting in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Consistent, demonstrating a consistent approach and manner in all circumstances and ensuring actions align with personal and company values.

Measures of success

• Within your first month, you will gain a holistic understanding of Collibra's field security landscape, establish relationships with key Sales, Product, and Engineering stakeholders, and evaluate our current organizational standards.
• Within your third month, you will actively consult with senior stakeholders within strategically important customers, addressing their critical issues, and begin setting priorities to direct/re-direct field security efforts.
• Within your sixth month, you will define and manage the Field Security strategic roadmap, implement scalable controls, and ensure security initiatives actively add business value and foster customer loyalty

Benefits at Collibra

Collibra recognizes and values that everyone has different needs, interests, and life goals. We built our benefits program with flexibility in mind to support you and your loved ones through a diverse range of circumstances and life events. These flexible offerings sit on a foundation of competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. Learn more about Collibra’s benefits.

We create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Learn more about diversity, equity, and inclusion at Collibra.

At Collibra, we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We realize the key to creating a company with a world-class culture and employee experience comes from who we hire and creating a workplace that celebrates everyone.

With this, we proudly consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, HIV status, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status or any other legally protected category. If you have a need that requires accommodation, let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.