Manager, Data Posture Monitoring

The Manager, Data Posture Monitoring, will lead the enterprise strategy, architecture, technology selection, and global implementation of Data Loss Prevention capabilities for a large multinational organization with approximately 100,000 users across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. This role will own the overall DPM (Data Posture Monitoring) program direction and execution roadmap across endpoint DLP, email and Microsoft 365 data protection, cloud and SaaS controls, CASB/SSE capabilities, network DLP, insider-risk monitoring, and data-protection incident response. The role will also partner with the enterprise data discovery and classification team to ensure sensitive-data context is incorporated into DLP design and monitoring. The ideal candidate is a senior cybersecurity leader with strong technical depth, enterprise-scale implementation experience, executive communication skills, and the ability to drive a complex global data-protection program across Security, IT, Legal, Privacy, HR, Compliance, Cloud, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities - Define the enterprise DPM strategy, target-state architecture, implementation roadmap, and operating model. - Lead vendor-neutral technology evaluation, tool selection, proof-of-concept planning, implementation oversight, and platform adoption. - Develop the architecture for DPM coverage across endpoint, email, Microsoft 365, cloud, SaaS, CASB/SSE, network, and insider-risk channels. - Translate business, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into practical technical capabilities. - Partner with data discovery and classification teams to incorporate data labels, sensitive-data types, data ownership, and business context into DLP design. - Establish cross-functional execution plans with Security Operations, Incident Response, Privacy, Legal, HR, Compliance, Cloud Engineering, Endpoint, Network, Messaging, and business teams. - Oversee phased global rollout across regions, business units, platforms, and high-risk use cases. - Define requirements for DLP integration with SIEM, SOAR, identity, endpoint security, cloud security, IT service management, and case-management platforms. - Provide senior oversight for significant data-loss, insider-risk, or sensitive-data exposure incidents. - Develop executive reporting on implementation progress, control coverage, incident trends, operational readiness, and risk reduction. - Manage program budget, vendor relationships, resource planning, implementation partners, and managed-service considerations. - Recruit, mentor, and develop the DLP Manager and future team members. - Build a scalable operating model to support global monitoring, investigation, escalation, and data-protection incident response. Originally posted on Himalayas