Senior Manager, Cyber Defense

DoorDash USA

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About The Position

The Senior Manager of Cyber Defense will lead the Cyber Defense team in the US.
This critical role is responsible for ensuring the organization's security posture by proactively identifying, investigating, and mitigating cybersecurity threats and incidents, as well as building AI-based automation. The Senior Manager will report to the director of Cyber Defense in the EU to execute on strategic plans and projects to enhance the company's security posture across all the brands.
The role requires active collaboration with team members in the UK and EU (Deliveroo and Wolt), which is why the role will be fulfilled in the US East time zone.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in information security and people management. Must have experience leading Incident Response, Incident Management, Investigations and Threat Hunt functions.
• Experience working with global partners in a follow-the-sun model.
• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems,
• Excellent understanding of information security operations related frameworks and standards (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK and NIST).
• Understanding and actively following the technology surrounding large language models.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Led with a people-first approach, is able to facilitate a conversation rather than dictate it, and is empathetic to divergent viewpoints.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a roadmap for continuous improvement of the team's capabilities, to include building net new functional areas. Automation and AI feature prominently.
• Lead the response to information security incidents, including investigation of, countermeasures to, and recovery from cyber attacks, unauthorized access, and policy breaches.
• Especially with incidents, act as the executive support for Americas timezone business and Legal, which includes participating in on-call for escalations or sometimes an incident commander role in high profile cases.
• Define, monitor, and report key performance indicators and service level agreements for internal teams and external vendors.
• Develop, maintain, and execute on key incident response plans and playbooks for global response.
• Collect and analyze information security threat intelligence to proactively identify and assess threats that could impact DoorDash.
• Hire, mentor, and train security engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, resilience and sustainable work, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the Cyber Defense team.

Benefits

• a 401(k) plan with employer matching
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• wellness benefits
• commuter benefits match
• paid time off and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)
• medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 11 paid holidays
• disability and basic life insurance
• family-forming assistance
• a mental health program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed