Director, Global Compliance Audit Programs

As a leader on the Cisco's Trust and Compliance team, we are responsible for ensuring Cisco's portfolio meets the cybersecurity compliance and certifications required to access global markets while simultaneously providing security assurances to our customers. We play a leading role in understanding customer needs for security, privacy, data protection, and customer data management: advising, supporting, and collaborating with customers, Cisco Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Government Affairs, and Legal; and building industry leading trust and transparency through security and compliance engineering.

What You'll Do

Lead initiatives to develop Cisco's compliance strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives while optimizing processes to meet global regulatory demands. In this role, you will play a critical part in the helping business units achieve regulatory compliance efficiently and at scale, ensuring our products meet the highest security & compliance standards for global market access.

Who You Are

You are a leader who has comprehensive understanding of both internal and external Compliance posture. The individual will collaborate with colleagues to advance various key initiatives for improvement. It requires an individual to showcase in-depth knowledge and decision making based on risk to build long term balanced process paths to improve our Compliance, and Security posture.

• Skilled compliance leader with extensive global compliance audit management experience and a strong understanding of cybersecurity, regulatory frameworks, and strategic risk mitigation.
• You succeed in a dynamic environment, bringing a strategic demeanor and the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Excellent in balancing regulatory requirements with business agility, ensuing compliance remains a key enabler of Cisco's growth in regulated markets.
• A leader with vision in cybersecurity of products to promote customer trust.
• Committed to talent development and team greatness.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive global audit strategy, regulatory requirements, and expectations.
• Partner with internal teams to enable secure product delivery while balancing business agility and regulatory requirements.
• Revise and automate compliance processes to enhance efficiency and reduce complexity.
• Serve as a liaison with key collaborators to proactively navigate evolving compliance landscapes.
• Align compliance strategy with business priorities to support go-to-market initiatives in regulated industries.
• Lead governance structures and alignment with regulatory directives and industry-standard processes.
• Establish critical metrics to measure compliance program success and drive continuous improvement.
• Integrate risk-based approaches to improve compliance operations and efficiency
• Develop and mentor a high-performing compliance audit team, in alignment with company goals and professional growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in cloud compliance, security, and regulatory frameworks.
• Expertise in compliance frameworks such as ISO, SOC2, ENS, C5, ISMAP, IRAP, and CSA STAR.
• Experience in driving compliance automation and process optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong executive presence with outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Established track record to lead large-scale audit programs and budgets while optimizing prioritization.

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