Director of Global Security Operations

Role overview

Director of Global Security Operations at MongoDB

Required qualifications

• <li>12+ years of experience in security operations, security engineering, or a related technical discipline, including at least 5 years in a people-leadership role</li>
• <li>Direct, hands-on experience in at least one of: vulnerability management, security automation or workflow tooling, or enterprise security operations</li>

Employment details

• Location: Gurugram

About the employer

• <p>MongoDB's Global Security Organization (GSO) is looking for a Director of Global Security Operations to build and lead GSO's first dedicated team in India.
• <p>GSO secures MongoDB's products, infrastructure, and the trust our customers place in us — spanning product security, corporate security, and risk, and working across engineering, go-to-market, and corporate development to keep security moving at the same speed as the business. </p>
• MongoDB has a diverse, inclusive, equitable, and high-performing environment, and we want to keep improving our ability to deliver for customers.</em></p>
• <li>The India team is fully staffed and operating to MongoDB's standards for quality, pace, and culture</li>
• <p>MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market.
• Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.</p>
• <p>Our compass at MongoDB is our <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company">Leadership Commitment,</a> guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win.
• <p>MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.</p>

Benefits

• <p>To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/culture/employee-benefits-that-make-a-difference-at-mongodb">From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy</a>, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.<a href="https://www.mongodb.com/blog/channel/culture"> Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB</a>, and help us make an impact on the world!</p>

Additional role details

• This is a foundational leadership role: your first mandate is to stand up a 20-person team from scratch.</p>
• <p>This team’s first mission will be extending US based teams in three different areas:</p>
• <ul>
• <li>Vulnerability management - AI driven detection, triage and workflow management of vulnerabilities from code to components to applications to infrastructure</li>
• <li>Launch readiness - shifting security analysis left to proactively address security needs as far upstream from product launch as possible</li>
• <li>Core enterprise security - projects focusing on improving protection against insider threats and and newly emerging AI Governance and Security needs</li>
• </ul>
• <p>We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Gurugram for our hybrid working model.</p>
• <h3>Who We Are</h3>
• <h3>Responsibilities</h3>
• <li>Recruit, hire, and onboard a 20-person team including 3 managers - across vulnerability management, launch readiness, and core enterprise security</li>
• <li>Stand up the operating rhythms, tooling, and documentation the India team needs to work as a first-class part of GSO from day one</li>
• <li>Get new hires productively engaged quickly and working seamlessly with required stakeholders</li>
• <li>Actively manage matrix reporting, ensuring ambiguity doesn't slow the team down — resolve competing priorities between local and functional leadership before they become the team's problem</li>
• <li>Represent the India team's capacity, constraints, and growth needs back to GSO leadership</li>
• <li>Build the durable leadership bench and processes that let the India team operate as an accountable, outcome-owning part of GSO going forward</li>
• <li>Build and lead an inclusive, high-performing global team by setting clear goals and operating rhythms; coaching and developing talent through regular, candid feedback and career conversations; monitoring team health and engagement; recognizing strong performance and addressing performance concerns early and fairly; and communicating change early with clarity and context</li>
• <h3>Requirements</h3>
• <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience</li>
• <li>A track record of hiring and ramping a technical team quickly while holding the line on quality and culture</li>
• <li>Experience operating successfully in a matrix structure — with the judgment to manage functional dotted-line relationships without losing ownership of your own team</li>
• <li>Comfort with a mandate that will evolve as the team matures — you're building this job as much as filling it</li>
• <li>Strong communication and relationship-building skills across geographies and time zones spanning the US, EMEA, and India</li>
• <p><em>Don't feel that you meet all of the requirements?
• We encourage you to apply anyway — studies show strong candidates sometimes rule themselves out prematurely.
• <h3>Nice to Haves</h3>
• <li>Background specifically in vulnerability management platforms, security orchestration/automation (SOAR) tooling, or enterprise security operations at scale</li>
• <li>Prior experience in a matrix organization with international, distributed reporting lines</li>
• <h3>Success in This Role Means</h3>
• <li>Ability to step into direct delivery level accountability vs. extending capabilities of other teams once the initial team build phase is complete</li>
• <li>The India GSO team has moved from a build-phase support function to owning clear, accountable delivery in vulnerability management, workflow automation, and enterprise security</li>
• <h3>About MongoDB</h3>
• We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software.
• MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI.
• <p>With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.</p>
• It’s what makes us MongoDB. </p>
• <p>MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process.
• To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.</p>
• <p><em>Req ID: 3273579829</em></p>