Director of Engineering, Security at Nexxen

New York, New York, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation

Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level

Full TimeJob Type

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Advertising Technology, TechnologyIndustries

Experience owning strategy, delivery, and lifecycle of security programs across applications, cloud/infrastructure, identity, data, and SOC operations
Ability to lead secure-by-design practices, incident readiness, and AI security governance
Expertise in leading Security Engineering domains: Application Security/DevSecOps, Cloud/Infrastructure Security, Identity & Data Security, and Compliance/SOC integration
Knowledge of establishing secure SDLC and architecture guardrails, detection and response effectiveness
Experience governing security vendors and budgets, driving process transformation
Ability to collaborate with Engineering/Platform on CI/CD and Kubernetes, IT on endpoint and access policy enforcement, Data on protection and lineage, and Legal/Compliance on SOC 2/SOX/GDPR and AI governance
Based in the New York office with ability to follow a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, rest remote)

Define a multi-year security strategy and roadmap aligned to Nexxen’s business and product direction
Chair the Weekly Security Council; represent Security in the Architecture Review Board
Lead AI Security Council (monthly) and AI Ethics Board (quarterly); deliver bi-monthly executive briefings on risk posture
Build a high-performing, globally distributed security organization and Security Champions program
Drive secure SDLC adoption: threat modeling, secure coding standards, SAST/DAST/SCA, and CI/CD gating
Prioritize and deliver platform-level controls across identity, cloud/Kubernetes, data protection, and web/API security
Establish SLAs/SLOs for vulnerability remediation, incident response, and control health; measure MTTR and risk reduction
Lead build/buy evaluations for security tooling; negotiate, optimize licensing, and manage vendor success