
Director
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Salary analysis
Compared with the selected benchmark ("All roles in London, United Kingdom"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 92% lower. The offer sits below the benchmark range (€4,092–€19,913). The listed pay band (€780–€1,226) is tighter than the benchmark, which suggests lower salary variability. This benchmark is based on 14 comparable listings.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Average: Director | €7,195/per month | €13,221/per month | €21,811/per month |
| All roles in London, United Kingdom | €4,092/per month | €9,966/per month | €19,913/per month |
Role OverviewThis is a transformational role. The Director is expected to lead the organization from fragmented, task-based security handling into a mature, agile program — modernizing how security is embedded across engineering, redefining operational efficiency, and setting how the cybersecurity function operates and perceived across the business.This role leads the combined Product Security and Security Operations function at Genius Sports. It is a program leadership role responsible for embedding security into how products are designed, built, and shipped — and for owning the full threat detection and incident response pipeline end-to-end.The Director sets direction for a global team spanning secure development lifecycle, security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability and exposure management, offensive security, cloud security, security monitoring, and incident management. The role translates cyber risk into business risk and drives the conversation leadership can act on.Strong experience across both Product Security and SecOps is required. This is a leader-coach role in a lean, high-ownership team operating in a regulated sports data and betting environment.
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Lead the transformation from fragmented security tasks to a mature program across ProdSecOps.
- Own the ProdSecOps program from vision to delivery across product security and security operations.
- Define and lead the product security framework; map assets, ownership, and cyber risk to business value.
- Oversee vulnerability management across application, cloud, and infrastructure; remediation SLAs.
- Oversee security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA) and offensive security including pen testing and red team.
- Own cloud security posture (CSPM, Kubernetes security, IaC review).
- Own threat detection and telemetry in SIEM; manage incident response plans and escalation paths.
- Drive detection engineering, MS SOAR, and 24/7 coverage model.
- Manage MSSP relationship and cost containment; ensure 24/7 coverage.
Requirements
- 10+ years in cybersecurity with significant depth in both product/application security and security operations.
- Proven leadership of security engineering or SOC teams — including distributed, multi-region teams.
- Expert-level knowledge of secure SDL frameworks (OWASP SAMM, NIST SSDF), threat modelling, and security architecture.
Skills & Technologies

| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 36 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Data Scientist | 2 |
| Software Engineer | 2 |
| Treasury Manager | 2 |
| Senior Software Engineer | 2 |
| Business Technology VP | 1 |
| Head of Sales | 1 |
| Finance Systems Manager | 1 |
| Broadcast Analyst | 1 |
| Project Accountant | 1 |
| Customer Success Manager | 1 |
| Accounting Analyst | 1 |
| Revenue Accountant | 1 |
| Senior Tax Manager | 1 |
| Vice President Inside Sales Channel Partnerships | 1 |
| Business Development Manager | 1 |
| Cyber Risk Manager | 1 |
| Warehouse Worker and Assembly Line Operator | 1 |
| Vice President Communications | 1 |
| Finance Manager | 1 |
| Internal Audit Assistant Manager | 1 |
| Automation Platform Engineer | 1 |
| Data Science Manager | 1 |
| Product Marketing | 1 |
| Salesforce Administrator | 1 |
| Sports Event Analyst | 1 |
| Strategic Growth | 1 |
| Product Manager | 1 |
| Director of Deal Desk | 1 |
| Sports Trader | 1 |
| Vice President Business Technology | 1 |
| Broadcast Engineer | 1 |
| Head of Football Partnerships | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 36 |
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