Associate Director, Cybersecurity & MSP Leadership (Hybrid)

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated in the United States seeks an Associate Director of Cybersecurity to lead Corcept’s security program, oversee the MSP, and partner with business teams to embed security in technology initiatives.

The role requires hands-on leadership across security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and cloud security, with collaboration across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and IT. Hybrid work with on-site presence most weeks.

Qualifications

• Experience leading security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, endpoint and cloud security.
• Experience managing an MSP/MSSP delivery model with SLAs, metrics and escalations.
• Strong knowledge of NIST CSF and CIS Controls.
• Experience communicating risk to senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of the cybersecurity program and roadmap.
• Oversee the cybersecurity MSP, ensuring service delivery and continuous improvement.
• Manage security across SOC/XSIAM, endpoint and email security, vulnerability management, firewall security, AWS cloud security, threat hunting, and cloud migrations.
• Lead cybersecurity incidents with coordination, containment, remediation, escalation, and follow-up actions.
• Oversee key security technologies including Okta, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Cortex XSIAM, AWS security services, and Microsoft security platforms.
• Drive risk management, ensure findings are remediated and tracked to closure.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, Applications, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and business teams to embed security into initiatives.
• Establish and monitor security KPIs, service metrics, risks, and trends for IT leadership.
• Manage cybersecurity vendors and service providers to meet security needs.
• Maintain and improve security standards, incident response procedures, and operating docs.
• Promote cybersecurity awareness and training across the organization.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security operations

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Identity & access mgmt

Cloud security

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

Cybersecurity degree

8+ years cybersecurity

Tools

Okta

CrowdStrike Falcon Complete

Palo Alto firewalls

Cortex XSIAM

AWS security services

Microsoft security tools

Job description

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated in the United States seeks an Associate Director of Cybersecurity to lead Corcept’s security program, oversee the MSP, and partner with business teams to embed security in technology initiatives.

The role requires hands-on leadership across security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and cloud security, with collaboration across Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and IT. Hybrid work with on-site presence most weeks.