Hiring: Vice President, AI Vulnerability Operations Company: Mastercard Location: O'Fallon, MO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 11:54:39 Target Skills & Keywords : Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, OWASP, Program Management About the job Experience: •15+ years in cybersecurity, technology risk, vulnerability management, application security, security operations, incident response, or related enterprise security leadership roles. Required Skills: •This is a senior leadership role for someone who can set enterprise direction, scale operating discipline, influence senior stakeholders, and drive outcomes through teams. The VP will lead the charge to make AI Vulnerability Operations a durable, trusted, measurable function embedded into how the company manages technology risk. •The mandate is to move beyond experimentation and establish a 24/7 command center capability that continuously identifies exploitable risk, accelerates decisions, coordinates response across regions and platforms, and gives leadership clear visibility into exposure, remediation progress, and risk reduction. •Set the enterprise strategy for AI Vulnerability Operations and the AI-Powered Vulnerability Command Center, including scope, priorities, governance, operating principles, global execution model, and success measures. •Define how AI-discovered vulnerabilities move from detection to validation, triage, risk prioritization, ownership assignment, coordinated response, remediation, exception handling, and verified closure. •Establish the organizational model, decision rights, escalation paths, service levels, and 24/7 operating cadence required to operate at enterprise scale. •Prioritize coverage across critical services, externally exposed assets, high-risk applications, development and runtime environments, third-party and open-source components, cloud environments, and other material technology risk areas. •Organizational Leadership & Execution •Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary organization spanning command center operations, technical program management, vulnerability operations, security engineering, automation, analytics, and remediation coordination. Qualifications: •In-depth knowledge of vulnerability management, application security, cloud security, software supply-chain risk, remediation operations, continuous detection, response coordination, and enterprise risk prioritization. •Demonstrated ability to operationalize emerging capabilities, including AI, automation, analytics, command center operations, or advanced security tooling, into repeatable enterprise processes. •Executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical risk into clear priorities, decisions, operating expectations, and tradeoffs. •Strong cross-functional influence with engineering, infrastructure, product, security, risk, audit, legal, sourcing, regional, platform, and business stakeholders. •Background in a regulated, high-assurance environment such as financial services, payments, government, healthcare, or critical infrastructure. •Operational familiarity with CVSS, EPSS, KEV, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, secure software development practices, and software supply-chain risk frameworks. •Track record building new enterprise capabilities, influencing senior stakeholders, and improving measurable risk outcomes across complex organizations. •What Success Looks Like in the First 12 Months •Approved enterprise strategy and operating model for AI Vulnerability Operations and the AI-Powered Vulnerability Command Center, with clear scope, governance, roles, metrics, escalation paths, and executive sponsorship. •Staffed and functioning 24/7 command center capability that continuously detects, intakes, validates, triages, prioritizes, assigns, tracks, and drives AI-discovered vulnerabilities through coordinated response and verified closure. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!