Safety and trust distinguishes our company from the competition and are at the core of our value proposition to our customer base: consumers, merchants and developers. This leader will help enable PayPal to grow successfully while continuing to protect our brand, ensuring the safety and trust across all of our brands, products and services globally.
Lead PayPal’s security development efforts, including both new capabilities and supporting existing feature set with a focus on cryptography services, anti-automation, and anomaly detection technologies
Lead PayPal’s cryptographic functions including key management and HSM operations teams.
Collaborate with security leadership, Business Units and regional teams to establish multi-year goals, target architecture and security strategy for PayPal’s entire security software portfolio.
Assess gaps between current and target security architectures, evaluate options, and develop appropriate solution strategies leveraging PayPal’s own technologies in combination with open source and COTS products.
Manage all security software development staff both internal and contracted
Advise security operations teams supporting incident response on intrusion detection monitoring, scanning, cyber threat reporting, and development/implementation of mitigation strategies
Provide expertise and security requirements to colleagues across the company who are building platform, infrastructure, and database applications and frameworks
Represent PayPal security to external parties in building long-term roadmaps for external security products
Provide overall leadership for PayPal’s Israel-based Security organization
Job Requirements
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Experience Requirements
Respected senior information security product or development leader at a large, global company in dynamic and fast changing markets
Experience building and managing large teams of top tier engineers
Experience designing and delivering internet-scale, enterprise-wide information security technology architectures, products, capabilities, and processes with a focus on scalability, durability, and performance
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, translation into operating plans and budgets, making buy/build decisions based on requirements, importance to business, risk and cost.
Experience in financial services and security technology industries
Competency requirements
Outstanding thought leadership, architectural and implementation skills – a thinker and a doer – able to look at information security comprehensively and strategically, and able to translate business strategy into technical vision and strategy
Demonstrated ability to lead with innovative ideas rather than follow the competition and traditional approaches; an “out-of-the-box” thinker who will determine what PayPal needs to build today in order to get ahead of future threats
Ability to build and manage high quality teams and develop security engineering talent from both internal and external sources.
A self-motivated and self-directed people leader with demonstrated ability to attract, develop, retain and motivate top tier talent and build an organization that is primed to get ahead of threats by using intelligence based security to understand where the threats are going, in real-time
A track record of proactively building and maintaining strong and effective partnerships with executives and operating teams in all geographies; effectively converting security perspectives into the business context of the organization
Strong orientation toward making decisions that will benefit the organization as a whole, rather than optimizing resources or benefits solely his or her for own team
Strong quantitative and analytical abilities with deep understanding of how to develop relevant metrics that not only track activity but also quantify the impact of security initiatives on the financial performance of the business
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge requirements
A deep, current knowledge of technology - networks, operating systems, browser and web security, cloud and software defined networking considerations, varied application stacks, distributed systems, and programming languages and environments
Deep expertise with cryptographic protocols, implementations, vulnerabilities, usability, and performance characteristics in real world systems
A good understanding of the human aspects of information security including basic psychology, cognitive biases, heuristics, decision making
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