Chief Information Security Officer (Ciso)

Sap North America; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 250,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

SAP North America seeks a strategic CISO to lead SAP’s cyber defense, incident response, and security engineering across global operations. The role emphasizes AI-enabled security, zero-trust, and cross-functional governance with executive stakeholders.

The CISO will oversee 24x7 security operations, threat intelligence, and resilience programs to protect critical enterprise assets in a multi-cloud environment. Strong leadership and collaboration are essential in this global, high-impact role.

Qualifications

• Executive leader responsible for cyber defense, security engineering, identity protection, incident response, and operational resilience.
• Lead global SOC operations and threat containment with executive oversight.
• Advance AI-enabled security across multi-cloud environments and mitigate AI-specific threats.
• Coordinate governance with product security, cloud compliance, risk management, and trust teams.

Responsibilities

• Direct SAP’s global 24x7 Security Operations Center including monitoring, detection, and response.
• Oversee incident response, playbooks, crisis management, and recovery efforts.
• Define zero-trust architecture and identity governance across multi-cloud and on-premises systems.
• Drive continuous improvement in threat exposure management and automated security controls.

Skills

Cybersecurity leadership

Security operations

Incident response

Identity & access management

Zero-trust architecture

AI-enabled security

Regulatory liaison

Job description

We help the world run better At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

OVERVIEW

SAP secures the digital core of the world's most complex organizations. As AI-industrialized cybercrime fundamentally reshapes the threat landscape, we are strengthening an already high-performing security organization to bring our capabilities together in ways that will make us faster, smarter, and more seamlessly integrated.

We are seeking

With Cyber-threats evolving at machine speed, SAP is seeking a strategic, operationally rigorous and technology-forward Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead core cybersecurity functions. The CISO will serve as the executive accountable for cyber defense, security engineering, identity protection, incident response, and operational resilience. The CISO will advance the secure adoption of AI across complex cloud environments while strengthening SAP’s protection against AI-specific threats and cloud vulnerabilities.

Under our federated governance model, the CISO operates as the executive leader accountable for SAP’s core cyber defense capabilities while maintaining close strategic alignment with dedicated enterprise leaders across Physical Security, Product Security, Cloud Compliance, Security Risk Management and Customer Assurance & Trust. This position demands an executive who can build resilient technical guardrails, advance AI-enabled and highly automated threat response, and protect enterprise assets without slowing business execution.

The role

As CISO, you will lead the capabilities that protect SAP from cyber threats, reduce exploitable exposure, govern access to critical systems and data, and strengthen the resilience of SAP's essential business services. Reporting directly to the Chief Security Officer, you will bring together deep operational expertise and sound executive judgment to protect SAP and enable the business to operate securely on a global scale.

This role carries significant external reach - you will interface regularly with customers, regulators, law enforcement, intelligence partners, and government authorities worldwide. At the forefront of your mandate: accelerating the responsible adoption of AI-driven security technologies while advancing SAP's ability to anticipate, detect, and respond to AI-enabled threats at speed and scale.

What you’ll build

You will drive the ongoing evolution and optimization of our enterprise-wide portfolio spanning:

• Global 24×7 security operations
• Cyber detection and threat defense
• Cyber incident response and crisis management
• Vulnerability and attack-surface reduction
• Identity and access management
• Enterprise security engineering, automation, and zero-trust architecture
• AI and agentic systems security, including AI-enabled cyber defense
• Business continuity, technology resilience, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery

Key Responsibilities

Global security operations and cyber defense

• Lead SAP’s global 24×7 Security Operations Center, including security monitoring, detection engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, investigation, containment, remediation, and operational recovery.
• Architect SAP’s machine-speed defense capabilities by driving the continued evolution of an intelligence-led, AI-enabled, and highly automated SOC capable of real-time detection, investigation, and response.
• Advance autonomous containment and remediation where appropriate, governed by defined decision criteria, technical guardrails, and human oversight.
• Establish measurable performance expectations for detection coverage, response effectiveness, service reliability, operational readiness, automation, and continuous improvement.

Incident response and threat intelligence

• Direct SAP’s global cyber-incident response capability, including crisis playbooks, escalation structures, technical coordination, executive communications, containment, remediation, and recovery.
• Lead preparedness exercises, simulations, and red-team scenarios addressing sophisticated criminal, state-sponsored, insider, cloud, supply-chain, and AI-enabled threats.
• Translate threat intelligence, incident findings, and lessons learned into measurable improvements across prevention, detection, response, remediation, and resilience.
• Maintain effective relationships with relevant customers, regulators, law enforcement, government authorities, intelligence partners, and industry stakeholders.

Enterprise security engineering, identity, and exposure management

• Define and enforce enterprise security architecture and zero-trust principles across SAP’s multi-cloud, corporate, identity, endpoint, network, infrastructure, API, and software supply-chain environments.
• Lead enterprise identity and access management, including identity governance, privileged access, authentication, authorization, lifecycle management, access assurance, and machine identities.
• Drive continuous threat-exposure management across on-premises and legacy systems, cloud platforms, SaaS