Director, Product Security Programs

  • Full-Time
  • Chicago, IL
  • Danaher Corporation
  • Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
Wondering what’s within Danaher? Take a closer look.

At first glance, you’ll see Danaher’s scale. Our 70,000 associates work across the globe at more than 20 unique operating companies within four platforms—life sciences, diagnostics, water quality, and product identification. Look again and you’ll see the opportunity to build a meaningful career, be creative, and take risks with the support you need to be successful. You’ll find associates who are as certain about their impact as they are about where they’re headed next. You’ll find the Danaher Business System, which makes everything possible. You’ll also see a company that investors trust—our culture of continuous improvement has helped us outperform the S&P 500 by more than 5,000% over the past 25 years.

And no matter where you look at Danaher, at the heart of what we do, you’ll witness our shared purpose—helping realize life’s potential—in action. Whether we’re enabling our customers to provide clean water, supporting a life-saving vaccine development, advancing a new instrument for cancer diagnosis, or ensuring product safety, our work helps improve millions of lives.

We hope you’ll see yourself here, too. What you find at Danaher—and within yourself— might just change the world.

Are you a hardworking business and technical leader who would love to drive Danaher’s Global Product Security (GPS) Program? You will work hand-in-hand with Business Leaders in Danaher’s portfolio of over 27+ operating companies! You will serve as the driving force and tactical program lead to promote customer trust and business resilience across customer facing devices, software, products and solutions!

You will lead, support and deliver a globally scalable product security program that supports operating company and business strategies and needs. You will work closely with product and business leaders in a matrixed manner to handle digital risk across the product ecosystem and within the product lifecycle. You will seek out efficient and effective approaches to promote new privacy & security capabilities and drive practical organizational adoption. You will infuse a sense of security and privacy by design in existing development processes and introduce new ways of working that provides for a secure product catalog for the future.

We are open to remote work from any continental U.S based major city with access to an international airport.

Responsibilities

Ensure product security program adoption, develop capability maturity roadmaps and integrating security & privacy controls into procedures, processes and daily work plans at the operating company level

Lead the development, rollout and on-going execution of privacy and security methods, procedures and controls across operating company product lines and solution sets in line with industry standard frameworks (ISO/NIST)

Be responsible for product security vulnerabilities, coordinated vulnerability disclosure programs and tracking & supporting on-going remediation programs and initiatives

Assess and continuously improve product security capabilities stemming from emerging technologies (AI & ML), product innovation, customer VOC and changing Cyber threat conditions

Build an internal network of security champions and technical domain authorities to translate program level capabilities and requirements into product & solution specific use cases and functionality

Qualifications

10+ years of experience with large enterprise or information security programs and organizations

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent

Cybersecurity certification such as CISSP, HCISPP, CISM or equivalent

Experience working with senior level leaders across the business and influences the opinions of others; exercises sensitivity to the audience

Ability to lead in a global matrixed environment; capable of adapting approach to work successfully with people with different work styles, able to work a flexible, demanding schedule required to lead teams across multiple time zones

Ability to travel up to 30% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent

At Danaher, we’re driven by a sense of wonder for what we can create—and what we can become. Here, you’ll accelerate your career while driving innovation that improves lives. You’ll work hard and try new things, with guidance from committed leaders, powerful DBS tools, and the support of a global organization. If you’d like to learn more, read stories from our associates on our Careers Blog or join our talent network .

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When you join us, you’ll also be joining Danaher’s global organization, where 69,000 people wake up every day determined to help our customers win. As an associate, you’ll try new things, work hard, and advance your skills with guidance from dedicated leaders, all with the support of powerful Danaher Business System tools and the stability of a tested organization.
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