Global Head of Cybersecurity & AI Security Strategy

Poland and Eastern Europe; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 524,000 - 787,000; Full time

Job summary

Xebia is seeking a Head of Cybersecurity to lead and evolve its global security capabilities. You will be responsible for strategy and hands‑on execution across prevention, detection, response and recovery, with a focus on AI/LLM security and agentic AI controls.

The role combines executive leadership with practical security engineering, collaborating with Infrastructure, AI/Data and delivery teams to raise the security baseline and enable secure growth across the business.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in security with 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Track record running or transforming a SOC/detection function and leading enterprise‑scale incident response.
• Practical experience securing multi‑cloud and modern application environments, plus AI models and agentic AI systems.
• Able to balance pragmatic delivery with risk reduction and customer assurance.
• Credible with executives, auditors, customers and technical teams; comfortable presenting cyber risk in business terms.

Responsibilities

• Define and operate Xebia's cybersecurity capability across prevention, detection, response and recovery.
• Own global incident response, tabletop exercises, post‑incident reviews and remediation tracking.
• Own the security tooling strategy across SIEM, XDR, EDR, SOAR and threat intelligence.
• Lead vulnerability and continuous exposure management across infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, applications and external‑facing assets.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Applications and AI/Data teams to embed secure‑by‑design patterns and DevSecOps practices.
• Build and develop a global cybersecurity team as the function grows.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Cloud security

Identity security

Incident response

Zero Trust

Education

CISSP

CISM

ISO 27001

Tools

SIEM

XDR

EDR

SOAR

Threat intelligence

Job description

Xebia is seeking a Head of Cybersecurity to lead and evolve its global security capabilities. You will be responsible for strategy and hands‑on execution across prevention, detection, response and recovery, with a focus on AI/LLM security and agentic AI controls.

The role combines executive leadership with practical security engineering, collaborating with Infrastructure, AI/Data and delivery teams to raise the security baseline and enable secure growth across the business.