Director Cybersecurity

Abbott is a global healthcare leader seeking a Director of Cybersecurity to lead a globally distributed security function and accelerate growth across the US, Spain, and India. The role involves building and leading a high-performing security organization, establishing security architecture and operational capabilities, and growing a team of security engineers. The successful candidate will have a strong background in secure software development practices, cloud-native systems, and experience leading vulnerability management and incident response.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 15+ years in cybersecurity, product security, or security engineering
• 5+ years leading and scaling managers and/or globally distributed teams
• Strong background in secure software development practices for cloud and mobile products
• Experience securing cloud-native systems (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience leading vulnerability management and coordinating remediation across engineering organizations
• Proven incident response leadership
• Experience partnering with governance and compliance functions on risk assessments, exceptions, third-party risk, and audit readiness in regulated environments

Benefits

• Career development with an international company
• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
• Excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune