Associate Principal, Security Business Operations

What You'll Do:

Drive our Security Services strategy as the key leader connecting product vision with organizational needs. This high-visibility role directly impacts our security posture through strategic leadership and innovation.

Your Impact

• Lead security product vision, strategy and roadmap development

• Drive cross-functional collaboration across security teams

• Communicating metrics and insights to senior management

• Transform security challenges into innovative solutions

Why You'll Excel

This role is ideal for strategic security professionals who combine technical expertise with business acumen. You'll have direct influence on product development while maintaining visibility with executive leadership.

Why Now

In today's evolving threat landscape, strategic security leadership is critical. This role positions you at the intersection of security innovation and business strategy—offering both organizational impact and career advancement.

Ready to shape the future of Security Services? Join us in protecting what matters most.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Perform duties across Security Services, activities may include:

• Define security product strategy and roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs.

• Lead requirements gathering, prioritization, and cross-functional delivery efforts.

• Monitor market trends and threats to identify innovation opportunities.

• Champion security requirements while driving stakeholder adoption and engagement.

• Manage product performance, budget, and resources to ensure strategic objectives.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Experience managing comprehensive security program budgets ($1M+), including vendor selection, technology procurement, and resource allocation across security functions while demonstrating ROI

• Demonstrated experience implementing business analytics platforms to drive security decision-making, with proven ability to develop custom visualization dashboards.

• Successfully led department-wide initiatives with demonstrable improvement in security metrics and on-time delivery.

• Certified Scrum Master with experience leading security product development teams using agile methodologies, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and daily standups while maintaining security compliance requirements

Technical Skills:

Demonstrated proficiency in:

• Project & Resource Management Tools: Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence), Microsoft Project, Oracle Financials

• Data Visualization & Analytics: Power BI, Tableau, advanced Excel modeling for security metrics

• Agile Methodologies: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban with specific application to security product development

• Business Analytics: SQL, Python for data analysis, security ROI modeling, risk quantification

Some experience:

• Generative AI Security Applications

• Security Automation

Education and/or Experience:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification required

• Security certification required (CISSP, CISM, Security+, or equivalent)

• Experience in IT or security roles

• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional security implementation initiatives (e.g., identity management, endpoint security, cloud security)

• Proven track record managing security projects through full lifecycle while maintaining compliance with relevant frameworks (NIST, ISO, etc.)

• Experience translating security requirements into project deliverables and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• History of successful vendor management and third-party security integration projects

• Experience with project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall) specifically applied to security initiatives

• Knowledge of security governance, risk management, and compliance processes

• Familiarity with security tools and technologies across multiple domains (network, cloud, application security)

• Experience developing and tracking security metrics and KPIs

Certificates or Licenses:

•              N/A  

About Us

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

Benefits

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely
• Generous PTO and Parental leave
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

Step 1
When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.  

Step 2
You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.

Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. 

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer