About This Role
This exciting role focuses on enabling sales of the company's full product and service portfolio by providing customers with proof points that convey its comprehensive security position. The Security Director strengthens the company's capability to sell, deliver, and develop solutions that optimally meet customer security needs.
Responsibilities
- Be part of a great team with diverse security and privacy skillsets where you continuously will learn, be supported, and grow
- Be empowered to proactively establish yourself as a trusted security advisor towards the customer (as well as internal partners)
- Give proactive security advice to Ericsson Customer Units (CU) and other decision-makers
- Serve as the key contact between the Customer and Ericsson regarding Security, Privacy, and BCM
- Ensure the Customer's Security and privacy concerns are identified, understood, acknowledged, addressed, and accurately reflected in the contract
- Build a structure to verify that we deliver what we promised (contractually) when it comes to security by collaborating with our full security community
- Support in both the pre-sales and post-sales capacity, assessing the customers’ requirements
- Advise customers on the correct solutions or services that meet their expectations based on proven security experience and collaboration skills
- Proactively advise customers in a wide range of security domains, including risk assessment, governance, data management, product privacy, product security hardening, ISO 27001 security controls and procedures, and vulnerability assessment
- Drive project delivery and gap closure by analyzing customer technology, defining business requirements, and participating in risk analysis
Requirements
- Ability to lead internal security projects effectively, balancing strategic oversight with hands-on management
- Trusted advisor capable of providing strategic guidance while also being prepared to address critical, high-priority tasks on short notice, requiring extensive cross-functional facilitation within Ericsson
- Strong relationship management skills, enabling effective coordination between internal and external cybersecurity teams and key stakeholders
- Proven ability to communicate security and compliance expertise to both internal and external audiences, supporting Ericsson’s security posture to key decision-makers
- Bachelor's degree or higher in information technology, security, or other similar technical area or equivalent experience
- 8-10 years of experience in cybersecurity
- Solid domain expertise in the telecom industry and/or IoT, including confirmed experience working with product security, privacy, and general cybersecurity
- Understanding of solution security aspects applicable to the telco space, such as security implications of: Open RAN, Service Based Architecture, Core and Ran interfaces, network slicing, distributed cloud solutions, Managed service solutions, XaaS Solutions
