Director, Global Compliance Audit Programs

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  • Location:
    San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Information Technology
  • Compensation Range
    236500 USD - 288900 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Security
  • Job Id
    1436027

*Application Deadline expected to expire March 11, 2025

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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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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