Senior Director, Cyber Defense

Sony Corporation of America
, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the Play Station Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth.

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We are seeking an accomplished cybersecurity leader to serve as Senior Director, Cyber Defense
, working directly with the Vice President of Cyber Defense, responsible for reducing cyber risk for Sony by strengthening and evolving cyber defense operations capabilities. This role is accountable for ensuring Sony maintains resilient, adaptive, and trusted cyber defense capabilities across a highly distributed global enterprise.

The Senior Director of Cyber Defense will oversee a global set of multidisciplinary Cyber Defense Teams (CDTs), which are a pivotal part of Sony's program to secure its information assets, services, and the products that depend on them, building trust with customers and stakeholders and protecting the privacy of Sony's customers. Capabilities of the CDTs include cyber security monitoring, incident response, detection engineering, security engineering, vulnerability management, machine log data onboarding, SOAR playbook development, among others.

This strategic and operational role is ideal for a seasoned professional with a proven track record in securing complex and highly targeted environments. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in cyber or IT operations, team leadership, and enterprise‑scale resiliency efforts—along with a collaborative mindset and ability to influence business units.

• Acts as the primary decision‑maker for cyber defense operations during significant security incidents, in coordination with enterprise leadership.
• Oversee the execution, quality, and effectiveness of 24x7 global security operations to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats against Sony Group Companies.
• Collaborate with Sony Group Companies (SGCs) to develop tailored defensive solutions to meet unique needs of the businesses while reducing cyber risk.
• Drive strategic transformation initiatives that measurably improve detection, response speed, and resilience.
• Champion the use of emerging tools and techniques to improve visibility, detection, and response (e.g., AI, SOAR, EDR, etc).
• Direct and develop a globally distributed organization, fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous learning that is adaptable to rapidly changing needs.
• Collaborate with key partners in IT, business operations, risk, and compliance to ensure alignment with security objectives.
• Represent cyber defense leadership in executive forums and cross‑functional meetings inside Sony, and represent Sony externally as a cyber leader for government and industry partnerships related to cybersecurity.
• Honesty, trustworthiness and ethical conduct are material requirements for the responsibilities outlined above.

Your qualifications and experience should include:

• 10+ years of technical leadership experience, including substantial leadership in IT or cyber operations and enterprise‑scale environments.
• Demonstrated understanding of information technology, cyber security concepts, and cyber security tools.
• Crisis Management and/or Incident Management experience.
• Proven ability to communicate and influence at all levels of an organization.
• Understanding and awareness of privacy laws and regulations, and how they affect cyber defense activities.
• Demonstrated success leading global teams.

• Demonstrated success leading global SOCs and managing incident responses for highly targeted organizations.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, endpoint protection, identity management, and threat intelligence integration.
• Hands‑on experience with…