- Pay
- $174–218k
- Where
- Beverly Hills, CA · McKees Rocks, PA · Woodinville, WA · Bend, OR · Connecticut · Puebla, Mexico · Union, NJ · Monterrey, Mexico · Mérida, Mexico · Iztacalco, Mexico · Kansas City, KS · Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico · Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico · Fort Worth, TX · Huntington Beach, CA · Miami, FL · Delray Beach, FL · Marietta, GA · Nampa, ID · Glendale, CA · McAllen, TX · Braintree, MA · Des Moines, IA · Riverside, CA · Charleston, WV · Missoula, MT · Henderson, NV · Columbia, SC · Waukee, IA · Toronto, ON · Edmonton, AB · Agoura Hills, CA · Hollywood, CA · Washington, DC · Milwaukee, WI · Virginia Beach, VA · Tampa, FL · Seattle, WA · Saratoga Springs, NY · San Francisco, CA · San Diego, CA · San Antonio, TX · Charleston, SC · Sacramento, CA · Raleigh, NC · Phoenix, AZ · Philadelphia, PA · Orlando, FL · São Paulo, Brazil · New York City, NY · New Orleans, LA · Nashville, TN · Minneapolis, MN · Louisville, KY · Los Angeles, CA · Las Vegas, NV · Indianapolis, IN · Houston, TX · Grand Rapids, MI · Detroit, MI · Denver, CO · Dallas, TX · Cleveland, OH · Cincinnati, OH · Chula Vista, CA · Chicago, IL · Charlottesville, VA · Charlotte, NC · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Boston, MA · Montréal, QC · Austin, TX · Burbank, CA · Atlanta, GA · Anaheim, CA · Wilmington, NC · Albuquerque, NM · Syracuse, NY · Auburn, WA · San Juan, TX · Rockland, ME · St. Petersburg, FL · East Palo Alto, CA · Tucson, AZ · Tempe, AZ · Reston, VA · Chester, PA · Baltimore, MD · Westerville, OH · San Bernardino, CA · Ridgefield, WA · Brooklyn, NY · Port Chester, NY · Etobicoke, ON · Ottawa, ON · Miami Beach, FL · Coconut Grove, FL · Remote · Remote
- Level
- Senior
Job Summary:
WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com .
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!
THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior Director to lead our Defect Management (Vulnerability Management) and Penetration Testing teams, which span penetration testing, vulnerability management, bug bounty program management, and defect remediation.
Reporting to the Vice President, Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Operations, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team and partner with cross-functional teams across regions to ensure vulnerabilities are prioritized, remediated, and monitored to protect Live Nation Entertainment’s assets and data. You will clearly communicate the business impact and urgency of security defects while following the defined risk management process, and you will define the outcomes and metrics for Defect Management across the enterprise.
This is a delivery-focused leadership role: you own program plans, roadmap commitments, and remediation service-level agreements (SLAs), and you are accountable for measurable, on-time reductions in enterprise vulnerability exposure.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
Build and lead a high-performing, multi-disciplinary security team across multiple locations
Set the team’s strategic direction and development, lead by example, and mentor team members at all levels
Research and communicate emerging security threats relevant to the environments we operate
Participate in threat modeling, security design reviews, penetration testing, and remediation verification
Partner with application teams enterprise-wide to detect, prioritize, and remediate security defects throughout the SDLC, embedding a security mindset from concept through implementation, including hands-on security training for architects and developers
Set clear priorities and deadlines and hold the team accountable for timely, high-quality delivery
Own budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation for both teams, including tooling, third-party testing, vendor, and bug bounty spend
Lead response to zero-day vulnerabilities and urgent exploits: coordinate with Cyber Security Operations, Threat Intelligence, and internal/external business partners, communicate clearly and promptly to leadership and stakeholders, and track each issue to closure. Requires 24/7 availability for urgent matters
Partner with Cyber Security Operations and Threat Intelligence on red and purple team exercises to validate detection and response and prioritize remediation of exploitable paths
Program Management & Delivery
Own program goals and roadmap commitments; build project plans with milestones, risks, and deadlines; escalate blockers early and deliver on time
Drive measurable reduction in vulnerability exposure, including Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) and aged backlog, and remediate all Critical vulnerabilities within regulatory timeframes (ex. PCI DSS)
Establish and enforce risk-based remediation SLAs, exception and risk-acceptance criteria, compensating controls, and escalation paths; track…