Jobs in Pleasanton, CA

About the role

Workday Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, Compliance & Trust team builds and sustains trust in Workday's cybersecurity commitments by embedding a cybersecurity-first mindset, delivering cybersecurity assurance and enabling business growth. We act as trusted advisors and change agents across Workday to protect the data of our fellow Workmates and 8000+ customers. We are seeking a technical cybersecurity leader with a proven track record delivering large cross-functional programs from concept to success. You will need to be comfortable leading in a matrixed organization to drive enterprise-wide cybersecurity programs including, but not limited to, the cybersecurity communications program. Additionally, you will be the architect for strategic C&T transformational programs, working with the C&T leadership team, providing strategic leadership, driving process design and transformation, and architecting the development of internal automation and cybersecurity solutions to ensure successful adoption and overall effectiveness of organizational scale and achievement of strategic objectives.

What you'll bring

• You will need to be comfortable leading in a matrixed organization to drive enterprise-wide cybersecurity programs including, but not limited to, the cybersecurity communications program.
• Minimum of 12 years experience as a GRC or business leader, conceiving and implementing innovative GRC strategies, driving improvements in risk management and compliance effectiveness, and influencing overall organizational governance.
• Minimum of 10+ experience in GRC domains, regulatory landscapes, and GRC technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business Administration, Law, Finance, Information Security, or a related discipline
• Proven ability to strategically and proactively apply Prioritization techniques to lead and direct the organization's most critical and complex GRC or Cybersecurity initiatives, anticipating future challenges and aligning with executive vision.
• Experience with driving cross-functional cybersecurity alignment across a global workforce and lead by influence across departmental lines without direct authority.
• Proven experience building, implementing, and running programs from scratch within an enterprise environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills under intense pressure, with the ability to translate complex technical risks for non-technical executives.
• Exceptional mastery in Relationship Building and the ability to cultivate and leverage deep, influential relationships with executive leadership, the board of directors, and key external stakeholders to advance Cybersecurity objectives.
• Expert-level understanding of Risk Analysis methodologies.
• Exceptional mastery in Stakeholder Management and the ability to build unshakeable consensus and influence executive leadership, the board of directors, and key external partners on the organization's most critical GRC strategies and initiatives.
• Experience leading cybersecurity technical and transformation programs in collaboration with cross functional cybersecurity teams, including experience being hands on with cybersecurity telemetry and metrics to support design and program progress indicators