Director, P&T Operations – Incident Management, Risk

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About the role

  • Director leading incident management, vulnerability operations, and technology risk reporting at Lightspeed. Enabling executive decisions for a global cloud commerce platform.

Responsibilities

  • Establish a consistent Product & Technology-wide incident management framework with standards, roles, severity definitions, escalation paths, communications, and follow-through expectations
  • Consolidate existing incident practices across teams while preserving effective approaches
  • Strengthen post-incident practices by assigning and tracking actions through completion
  • Partner with Engineering and Security leaders to improve incident readiness, response effectiveness, and operational resilience
  • Strengthen operating mechanisms for security incidents and vulnerability management, including intake, prioritization, ownership, remediation tracking, escalation, and reporting
  • Provide visibility into material vulnerabilities, remediation progress, aging, exceptions, and leadership intervention needs
  • Connect security incidents and vulnerabilities to broader incident, risk, and executive reporting mechanisms
  • Identify recurring process, ownership, or control breakdowns and drive cross-functional improvements
  • Build mechanisms for actionable views of material technology and operational risks, trends, mitigations, and required decisions
  • Partner with owners across responsible AI, application and infrastructure security, digital supply-chain risk, identity and access management, Zero Trust, data protection, shadow IT/AI, security compliance, and operational resilience
  • Translate complex risk information into priorities, tradeoffs, and actions
  • Identify patterns across incidents, vulnerabilities, and risk signals to inform priorities and systemic improvement
  • Define metrics and reporting for incident health, vulnerability exposure, remediation progress, risk trends, and operational resilience
  • Develop executive-level views and materials for CTO, Security leadership, and board-committee discussions
  • Improve communications across technical teams, business stakeholders, executives, and partners
  • Lead complex cross-functional work across Engineering, Security, Product, Legal, Compliance, and other teams through influence
  • Create ownership and accountability for cross-functional actions
  • Establish operating cadences that advance material incidents, vulnerabilities, and risks toward resolution
  • Continuously improve processes, tooling, data, and organizational interfaces
  • Set the vision and operating model for incident management and technology risk operations within P&T Operations
  • Build partnerships with Engineering and Security leadership and advise on operational readiness, risk visibility, and organizational response
  • Develop the capabilities, processes, and team as the scope matures while remaining hands-on when needed

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading incident management, technology operations, security operations, risk programs, or a closely related function in a complex technology organization
  • Demonstrated experience designing or materially improving incident management processes, standards, communications, reporting, and post-incident follow-through across multiple teams
  • Working knowledge of security incident response and vulnerability management
  • Ability to partner credibly with Security and Engineering leaders without needing to be the deepest technical expert in every domain
  • Experience building executive-level risk, incident, or operational reporting
  • Strong understanding of how technology and security risks are identified, prioritized, mitigated, tracked, and communicated in an enterprise environment
  • Experience leading cross-functional change and driving accountability across teams without direct authority
  • Strong executive communication skills, including judgment to tailor communications for technical teams, senior executives, and board-level audiences
  • Ability to bring structure to ambiguity, identify systemic issues, and build durable operating mechanisms
  • Strong judgment, calm under pressure, and ability to operate effectively during high-severity or high-visibility incidents
  • Collaborative leadership style and ability to build trust across Product, Engineering, Security, Legal, Compliance, and executive leadership
  • Applicants must disclose any criminal convictions; criminal record checks are part of the hiring process
  • Legal eligibility to work in Canada and visa sponsorship requirements may apply

Benefits

  • Continuous learning opportunities
  • Global mobility
  • Benefits designed to support employees
  • Diverse and inclusive team
  • Accommodations available on request for candidates with disabilities

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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