Director, Security Risk Program

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 227,000 - 287,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Director of Security Risk Program to lead the Four Pillars of risk: risk assessments, capability maturity, risk intelligence, and cloud security risk. You will guide a multidisciplinary team and partner with Central Security, Legal, and product teams to shape risk strategy, drive regulatory compliance, and accelerate AI/product launches with safe, scalable risk practices.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in security risk management, executive storytelling, and delivering

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in security risk management or related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience leading teams or managers.
• Experience presenting to executives to shape strategy and roadmaps.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and certification regimes (SOC 2, HIPAA, FDA, USG).

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and end-to-end delivery of four program pillars across risk, CME, risk intelligence, and cloud risk.
• Partner with Central Security leadership to unify risk management tooling, processes, and methodology.
• Embed risk assessment into product development for AI and cloud initiatives to speed launches.
• Manage Tier 1 regulatory deliverables with fixed external deadlines (SOC 2, HIPAA, FDA, EU acts).
• Represent Meta's risk posture to executives, regulators, and external auditors.
• Scale security risk assessment capabilities for AI with defined methodology and operations.
• Coordinate cross-domain risk alignment with Privacy, Integrity, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit.

Skills

Security risk management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Risk assessment frameworks

Job description

Meta's Security Risk Program (SRP) is the second-line function accountable for how Meta identifies, assesses, quantifies, and reports its security risk posture — to executive leadership, the Board, external auditors, and global regulators. The program delivers Global Security Risk Assessments (regulatory and commercial), Capability Maturity & Effectiveness (CME) evaluations, AI risk assessments, cloud security risk governance and assessment, unified risk intelligence and quantification, and board and regulatory reporting. We are looking for a Director of Security Risk Program to lead this portfolio through a period of significant expansion. The role owns four program pillars and 38+ resources (FTE and contingent workforce), and is accountable for several strategic mandates: standing up Meta's security risk assessment capability for AI and product launches, evolving Meta’s cloud security risk capability, and building a comprehensive security risk intelligence picture across all three lines of defense, to support leadership decision-making and resource prioritization. Success in this role is defined as much by influence as by ownership. The Director sits at the intersection of Central Security leadership, Risk Org PM and Eng, Legal Partners, and Meta's product organizations — translating engineering and product reality into a defensible risk position. This is a role for a risk leader who is equally credible in front of a regulator, a Board committee, and an engineering leader whose roadmap they are trying to shape. The ideal candidate is a proven risk leader, with a background in Security, and an effective cross-organization collaborator and communicator who can distill complex regulatory positions for both technical and executive audiences. They have experience navigating ambiguity, defining structure in evolving problem spaces, and delivering results in rapidly changing product areas; they are skilled at leading a team, developing and driving high-level strategy, and — equally — personally executing on critical workstreams, including program planning and stakeholder coordination. They can sift through complex information, distill key insights, and elevate critical data to drive informed decisions at every level, from the working team to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, operating model, and end-to-end delivery of Meta's Security Risk Program across four programmatic pillars — Risk Assessments, Capability Maturity & Effectiveness, Risk Intelligence, and Cloud Security Risk — and lead, develop, and grow the multidisciplinary team and contingent workforce that delivers it.
• Serve as the program's primary partner to Central Security leadership, driving a unified approach to security risk management (tooling, process, and methodology), including absorbing in-flight work from 1LOD into the second line: negotiating scope,.
• sequencing, and integration decisions, and establishing clear risk coverage ownership across the lines of defense.
• Embed security risk assessment into how product organizations build and ship — engaging early on predicate, AI, and cloud assessments so that risk review accelerates launches rather than gating them, and so product teams have a clear, predictable path through second-line review.
• Own accountability for Tier 1 regulated deliverables with fixed external deadlines, including Global Security Risk Assessments, EU RED and Data Protection assessments, commercial certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, FDA, USG), the EU Cyber Resilience Act program, and EU AI Act model assessments.
• Represent Meta's security risk posture to executive leadership, Board committees, internal fora, regulators, and external auditors, and act as the escalation and risk-acceptance decision-maker for the program.
• Build and scale security risk assessment capability for AI, establishing methodology, tiering, and operations for predicate assessments, model assessments, and rapid assessments in close partnership with AI infrastructure, product, and Legal teams.
• Drive cross-domain unification with Privacy Risk Management, Integrity Risk Management, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit — owning the Unified Risk Quantification model and a common risk taxonomy so Meta presents one coherent risk picture rather than several competing ones.
• Own program financials and resourcing, and drive the strategy for automation and AI that scales assessment throughput without compromising defensibility.

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in security risk management, technology risk, GRC, or a directly
• related discipline
• 8+ years of experience managing and developing teams, including experience managing managers or senior individual contributors with demonstrated progression into organizational leadership
• Demonstrated experience attracting talent, developing leadership pipelines, managing org health through growth or change
• Demonstrated experience owning a security or technology risk program end-to-end across multiple organizations, including methodology, operations, and reporting
• Demonstrated experience partnering with and presenting to executive leadership to shape organizational strategy, influence technical roadmaps, drive XFN alignment
• Experience partnering directly with a Central Security or infrastructure security organizations and engineering leaders as a second-line risk function
• Experience delivering assessments or reporting against external regulatory or certification regimes (e.g., EU regulatory frameworks, SOC 2, HIPAA, FDA, US Government requirements)
• Demonstrated experience with risk assessment and capability maturity frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, CMMI, ISO 27001, FAIR or comparable quantification approaches)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building a risk assessment capability for AI systems, including AI-specific
• regulatory regimes (EU AI Act) or emerging AI risk frameworks
• Experience integrating first-line and second-line risk responsibilities, or consolidating risk
• functions across domains
• Experience embedding risk review into a fast-moving product development lifecycle
• Experience with quantitative risk modeling and unified risk quantification at enterprise scale
• Experience with cloud security risk governance in a large multi-cloud environment
• Experience applying automation and AI tooling to scale GRC operations
• Experience managing program resourcing, budget, and vendor or contingent workforce delivery
• Familiarity with EU regulatory frameworks including GDPR/DPIA, RED, DORA, NIS2, or the Cyber Resilience Act
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA) or an advanced degree in a related field

$227,000/year to $287,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits