Corporate Vice President Red Team Program Lead

• Manage the Red Team Program engagement pipeline including intake prioritization planning scheduling execution tracking and post-engagement follow-up.
• Maintain program plans milestones deadlines dependencies and deliverables across concurrent exercises and related activities.
• Support annual and quarterly planning activities including exercise selection resource planning stakeholder alignment and program roadmap maintenance.
• Track program risks issues decisions and dependencies escalating items as appropriate to leadership.
• Help establish and maintain repeatable processes templates procedures and governance documentation.

• Coordinate across cybersecurity technology operations risk business and control functions to support the successful planning and execution of Red Team engagements.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders including during exercises that may involve sensitive findings operational disruption concerns or adversarial scenarios.
• Serve as a point of coordination between the Red Team Control Board technical operators defensive teams technology owners business stakeholders and executive audiences.
• Support pre-engagement communications rules of engagement stakeholder briefings deconfliction activities and post-engagement readouts.
• Exercise extreme discretion and sound judgment when handling confidential plans sensitive results and need-to-know communications.

• Support the definition and documentation of engagement scope objectives assumptions constraints timelines and success criteria.
• Track observations findings themes and remediation commitments resulting from Red Team exercises and related security assessments.
• Partner with stakeholders to drive follow-up actions confirm ownership monitor progress and support timely resolution of agreed outcomes.
• Help categorize engagement results in a consistent and meaningful manner to support trend analysis executive reporting and risk-informed decision-making.
• Maintain accurate records of completed exercises key outcomes lessons learned and program metrics.

• Develop and maintain program reporting dashboards and executive-level materials summarizing Red Team activity outcomes risks trends and remediation progress.
• Translate complex cybersecurity concepts and exercise results into clear practical and audience-appropriate communications.
• Support recurring updates to cybersecurity leadership technology leadership risk partners and other executive stakeholders.
• Identify recurring control gaps organizational themes and opportunities to improve cyber defense capabilities based on engagement results.
• Ensure reporting is accurate balanced actionable and appropriately sensitive to audience and confidentiality considerations.

• Support selection and management of third-party vendors engaged in Red Team adversary simulation or related cybersecurity assessment activities.
• Coordinate vendor onboarding statements of work timelines deliverables invoices and performance tracking in partnership with procurement and program leadership.
• Assist with budget planning expense tracking forecasting and analysis for Red Team Program activities.
• Monitor resource needs and constraints helping leadership prioritize or deprioritize work based on risk business priorities capacity and timing.
• Help ensure vendor activities are aligned with internal standards engagement objectives and stakeholder expectations.

• Identify opportunities to improve program structure execution discipline reporting consistency stakeholder experience and outcome management.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Red Team Program standards operating procedures and best practices.
• Support alignment between Red Team activities and broader cybersecurity Technology Risk Incident Response Vulnerability Management and control improvement efforts.
• Help mature the program's ability to measure effectiveness communicate value and drive enterprise-level security improvements.
• Adapt program execution to changing priorities emerging threats organizational needs and operational constraints.

• Prior experience in IT system ownership cybersecurity program coordination technology risk project/program management or related technology governance roles.
• Experience managing cross-functional initiatives involving technology cybersecurity risk business vendor and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience tracking deadlines dependencies action items budgets deliverables and outcomes across complex initiatives.
• Prior experience supporting vendor management activities including coordination of deliverables timelines invoicing and performance expectations.
• Experience preparing executive-facing materials status updates metrics dashboards or management reporting.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity cyber defense technology infrastructure application environments identity and access management incident response or security operations concepts.
• Prior experience in a regulated financial services insurance or similarly complex enterprise environment preferred.
• Experience supporting offensive security penetration testing adversary simulation purple team incident response or cyber resilience programs preferred but not required.

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent work experience.
• Project or program management experience or exposure.
• Cybersecurity or technology risk certification preferred such as Security+ CISSP CISM CRISC or similar designation.
• High-level understanding of cyber defense organizations including security operations incident response threat intelligence vulnerability management identity infrastructure and application security functions.
• High-level understanding of enterprise technology functions including application ownership infrastructure cloud networking end-user technology and technology operations.
• Working knowledge of risk management issue management control remediation and executive reporting practices.

• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with technical teams business partners risk stakeholders vendors and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and maintain positive working relationships including in situations involving challenging findings sensitive topics or competing priorities.
• Strong organizational analytical written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical or complex cybersecurity concepts into practical business language.
• Proven ability to drive accountability and outcomes across teams without direct authority.
• Sound judgment discretion and professionalism when handling confidential or sensitive information.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with the ability to manage shifting priorities in a dynamic execution environment.
• Ability to prioritize and deprioritize work based on risk urgency stakeholder impact and available capacity.

What We Do

At New York Life our 180-year legacy of integrity mutuality and financial strength fuels a future defined by bold transformation. As the largest mutual life insurance company in the U.S. we operate on behalf of our policy owners—not shareholders. That structure allows us to take a long-term view investing in people purpose and innovation that endures. Guided by a clear enterprise vision to become a technology- data- and AI-powered company we’re modernizing our platforms rearchitecting experiences and embedding intelligence across our products and services. Our mission has always been about helping people through life’s most meaningful moments. Today technology is amplifying that mission—enabling us to serve clients advisors and communities in more personalized proactive ways. With a diversified business portfolio spanning insurance investments retirement group benefits and direct-to-consumer offerings New York Life delivers the stability of a Fortune 100 company with the agility of one that’s continuously evolving. We’re powered by a values-led culture inclusive teams and a shared belief that when our people thrive so does our company. Here tradition fuels momentum—and your ideas energy and growth power what’s next.

Why Work With Us

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