Director, Enterprise Data Security - USA Remote

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The Director, Enterprise Data Security, cybersecurity leadership role builds and operates enterprise capabilities to protect sensitive data and mitigate insider risk.

This position reports to the Vice President, Cyber Defense, and is cybersecurity leadership role within the Danaher Information Security team that includes architecture, engineering, cloud security, and the security operations center. This position is fully remote in US.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and deliver continuous improvements to the enterprise data security, data lifecycle management, and insider risk management program.  Measure program maturity, prioritize initiatives, and increase program effectiveness.

• Partner with Data Governance, Legal, HR, Privacy, and related functions to maintain consistent standards and processes.

• Align with cybersecurity threat detection and operations processes, leading teams responsible for the day‑to‑day detection, triage, and escalation of data loss prevention and insider risk alerts.

• Develop and sustain a robust data loss prevention program that spans exfiltration vectors including email, device, and cloud.

• Grow and develop the skills of resources operating and deploying the technical implementations of the data security programs.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, data protection, insider risk, threat management, investigations, or closely related domains with an additional 3+ years leading teams (people leadership), including managing managers and/or leading multiple related teams/workstreams.

• Ability to engage, motivate, and influence peers to implement technical controls and share enthusiasm of security priorities, controls, and technologies.

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating insider risk / insider threat capabilities in a cross-functional model involving Legal, HR, Privacy, and Security stakeholders.

• Demonstrated experience with data protection and insider risk technical controls and telemetry (e.g., UEBA, DLP, CASB, endpoint and cloud signals) and using them to drive measurable outcomes.

• Demonstrated experience establishing program governance (use cases, escalation/triage workflows, reporting) with appropriate privacy protections and transparency expectations.

• Experience developing and executing departmental plans/priorities and allocating resources based on organizational objectives and availability (planning, execution, and results ownership).

• Prior experience with industry leading tools such as Crowdstrike, Zscaler, Microsoft Purview, Palo Alto, Dtex, Gurucul, etc.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel – Around 15%, overnight, some international travel outside of home territory

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Operating distributed review and investigative processes with a “hub and spoke” model (e.g., centralized coordination with distributed company / business unit teams.

• Experience creating or scaling enterprise awareness / guidance for insider risk hygiene and safe data handling.

• Experience with data protection capabilities in Microsoft 365 including but not limited to data labels, Conditional Access Policies, and Purview Information Protection; CrowdStrike Data Loss Prevention module.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field; relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GIAC) or equivalent industry credentials.

Danaher offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

At Danaher, we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Danaher can provide.

The annual salary range for this role is $170k - $210k.This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay. #LI-Remote

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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