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Overview: who is virgin pulse? virgin pulse, founded as part of sir richard branson’s famed virgin group, helps organizations build employee health and wellbeing into the dna of their corporate culturesAs the only company to deliver a powerful, mobile-first digital platform infused with live services, including coaching and biometric screenings, virgin pulse’s takes a high-tech-meets-high-touch-approach to engage employees in improving across all aspects of their health and wellbeing, every day – from prevention and building a healthy lifestyle to condition and disease management;all while engaging users daily in building and sustaining healthy habits and behaviorsA global leader in health and wellbeing, virgin pulse is committed to helping change lives and businesses around the world for good so that people and organizations can thrive, togetherToday, more than 3100 organizations across the globe are using virgin pulse’s solutions to improve health, employee wellbeing and engagement, reduce costs and create strong workplace cultures.
Who are our employees? at virgin pulse we’re passionate about changing lives for goodWe want to make a difference in the world by helping people be healthy so they can perform at their best, every day, at work and homeOur award-winning solutions support leading employers in improving and simplifying the employee health and wellbeing journey and engaging people in all aspects of their healthBut our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace health and wellbeingOur people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happinessAt virgin pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture – have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.
Virgin pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employeesWe believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectivesWhy? because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutionsBut more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgoodResponsibilities: who you are as director, corporate systems for the industry leading employee wellbeing and engagement platform, you will lead the team responsible for ongoing prevention, detection and response to cyber threats across all of the company’s systems.
Reporting to the svp, information security and corporate systems, your core responsibilities will include overseeing corporate technology operations and evaluating them according to established goals, analyzing the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs, managing it budget and report on expenditure, working closely with engineering, devops and information security teams to ensure technical security controls are deployed and performing optimally.
Our customers need to trust us with privileged access to their most sensitive data, and we need to earn and maintain that trust every dayYou will lead our seasoned and talented it corporate systems team - foster our technology vision, develop the roadmap to achieve it, and mentor the team to deliver on the strategy.
The ideal candidate will fill a visible, strategic, and high-impact leadership role within the organizationYou will have excellent domain knowledge, and skills that leverage the capabilities of peers, business partners, associates and clientsYou will instill the duty to protect our systems and the data of customers, employees, investors and partnersAs such, this leader must engender control, trust, accountability, transparency and urgency in the execution of his/her responsibilities.
At a high level, this executive will have a mastery of it and corporate systems, managing endpoints, and leveraging cloud environments.
In this role you will wear many hats but your skills will be especially essential in the following:
Overseeing corporate technology operations and evaluating them according to established goals.
Analyzing the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs, managing it budget and report on expenditure.
Managing it help desk and support teams.
Working closely with engineering, devops and information security teams to ensure technical controls are deployed and performing optimally.
Define and execute both vision and strategy for the entire company’s corporate systems management program.
Drives action through strong advocacy of the value of information technology
Serve as an information technology subject matter expert and advisor for senior management on emerging software, hardware and technology stacks to support the business.
Be aware of the developing technology, and help the business understand the potential implications related to ongoing projects.
Manage all teams, and vendors involved in delivering it solutions, including hiring and developing a pipeline of talent, providing training and mentoring to other team members.
Ensure global engineering and development teams are empowered with both the education and tools needed to incorporate security into development practices and automated build & deployment processes.
Partner with sales and client success teams to enable customer acquisition & retention, by acting as an executive sponsor to certain customers and participating in the sales cycle (e.gMeeting with customers, negotiating security/privacy language in deals, educating sales teams on security practices & capabilities, etc.
Mature processes to ensure our systems are monitored for performance, anomalies are tracked, and procedures followed when alerts triggered.
Consult with the business to ensure systems and processes are designed & implemented with efficiency, security, and privacy in mind.
Drive collaboration on information technology across the enterprise, including the legal, information technology, research and engineering, services, sales, product management and finance.
Participate in internal and external audits or assessments of platform or internal business practices.
Ensure compliance with global data privacy, use and sharing legislation.
Champion secure multi-tenant saas architecture practices.
Qualifications: what you bring to the team in order to represent the best of what we have to offer, you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:
Bs degree (masters preferred) in information technology or it related field.
8+ years of experience leading information technology and corporate systems teams focused on all aspects of information technology, including identity management, server engineering, software security,
5+ years in senior leadership role at a global business.
5+ years managing it help desk and support teams.
5+ years of experience in securing systems running on public cloud infrastructures
Professional technical certifications such as cism, mcse, itil, pmp, aws, azure, six sigma, etcAre preferred.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with teams across the entire organization.
Excellent leadership and decision-making skills.
Strong knowledge of project management principles.
Record of successfully and directly managing budgets for information technology teams.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, able to communicate technology concepts to both technical and nontechnical audience.
Technical background through applications and/or infrastructure.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualificationIf you may be a good fit, we encourage you to applyVirgin pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to principles of social justice, equity, diversity and inclusionAs we are committed to diversifying our company, we make a particular effort to recruit and encourage candidates that are historically from underrepresented communities to apply for open positions.
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Security competencies: work to maintain system and data security at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the virgin pulse application is not compromisedAdhere to industry best practice coding standards and verify all code developed at virgin pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities such as those defined and published by owasp.
Why work here?
We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class status.
Please note that virgin pulse representatives will only communicate with you via our own corporate communication tools with virginpulse.com email addresses and through partnership with our applicant tracking system, icims, which will clearly reference virgin pulseWe do not use third part apps like wire or whatsapp to communicate.
At no time during the interview process will we ask you for secure pii data unless you are offered a job with virgin pulseShould you be offered a job, and accept, you will be provided with secure links through our partnership with adp.
