[Hiring] Senior Director, Cyber Defense @Sony

Role Description

We are seeking an accomplished cybersecurity leader to serve as Senior Director, Cyber Defense, working directly with the Vice President of Cyber Defense, responsible for reducing cyber risk for Sony by strengthening and evolving cyber defense operations capabilities. This role is accountable for ensuring Sony maintains resilient, adaptive, and trusted cyber defense capabilities across a highly distributed global enterprise.

The Senior Director of Cyber Defense will oversee a global set of multidisciplined Cyber Defense Teams (CDTs), which are a pivotal part of Sony’s program to secure its information assets, services, and the products that depend on them, building trust with customers and stakeholders and protecting the privacy of Sony’s customers. Capabilities of the CDTs include:

• Cyber security monitoring
• Incident response
• Detection engineering
• Security engineering
• Vulnerability management
• Machine log data on-boarding
• SOAR playbook development

This strategic and operational role is ideal for a seasoned professional with a proven track record in securing complex and highly targeted environments. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in cyber or IT operations, team leadership, and enterprise-scale resiliency efforts—along with a collaborative mindset and ability to influence business units.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technical leadership experience, including substantial leadership in IT or cyber operations and enterprise-scale environments.
• Demonstrated understanding of information technology, cyber security concepts, and cyber security tools.
• Crisis Management and/or Incident Management experience.
• Proven ability to communicate and influence at all levels of an organization.
• Understanding and awareness of privacy laws and regulations, and how they affect cyber defense activities.
• Demonstrated success leading global teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success leading global SOCs and managing incident responses for highly targeted organizations.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, endpoint protection, identity management, and threat intelligence integration.
• Hands-on experience with cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001).
• Proven ability to lead through change and drive innovation in large, complex organizations.

Requirements

• Acts as the primary decision-maker for cyber defense operations during significant security incidents, in coordination with enterprise leadership.
• Oversee the execution, quality, and effectiveness of 24x7 global security operations to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats against Sony Group Companies.
• Collaborate with Sony Group Companies (SGCs) to develop tailored defensive solutions to meet unique needs of the businesses while reducing cyber risk.
• Drive strategic transformation initiatives that measurably improve detection, response speed, and resilience.
• Champion the use of emerging tools and techniques to improve visibility, detection, and response (e.g., AI, SOAR, EDR, etc.).
• Direct and develop a globally distributed organization, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning that is adaptable to rapidly changing needs.
• Collaborate with key partners in IT, business operations, risk, and compliance to ensure alignment with security objectives.
• Represent cyber defense leadership in executive forums and cross-functional meetings inside Sony, and representing Sony externally as a cyber leader for government and industry partnerships related to cybersecurity.
• Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage with coverage for spouses/domestic partners and child dependents, including access to a Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Employee assistance plan and comprehensive behavioral health benefits.
• Fertility benefits, including surrogacy, and adoption assistance programs.
• Basic and supplemental life insurance for employees as well as supplemental life insurance coverage for their spouses/domestic partners and children.
• Voluntary benefits such as group legal, identity theft protection, accident, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• Short-term & long-term disability plans.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental and caregiver leave.
• 401(k) Plan with pre-tax, Roth, and after-tax options and company match with immediate vesting.
• Education assistance and student loan programs.
• Time off to include vacation, paid holidays, sick leave, Summer Fridays (early release), and a winter break between Christmas and New Year’s Day (based on business needs).
• Referral bonuses (subject to eligibility).
• Matching gift program.
• A wide variety of employee business resource groups (EBRGs).
• Special discounts on Sony products, offered exclusively to Sony employees.
• Employee stock purchase plan (Sony covers commissions and fees for your Sony stock purchases made through after-tax payroll deductions).

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $275,000 to $295,000. In addition to the annual base salary, this role has an annual bonus target of 25%. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for.