M&a Security Integration Lead

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.

**Job Description**:
Safety and trust distinguishes our company from the competition and are at the core of our value proposition to our customer base, consumers, merchants and developers.

Expectations for PayPal’s continued successful growth are dependent on the ability of the M&A Security Integration Lead to:

- Participate in the Security M&A due diligence handoff and integration planning function
- Identify gaps, assess risks, and develop and manage remediation action plans through the whole M&A and Integration process that include determinations of highest risk.
- Employ both interpersonal communication skills as well as hands on engineering skills to enable newly acquired businesses to mesh into PayPal’s security program.
- Create detailed and well considered plans and budgets which will reduce churn, unplanned work, and unneccessary spend.
- Up to 30% travel, depending on acquisition pace and location.

**Primary Job Responsibilities**
- Participate in the M&A security integration process for PayPal.
- Help mature the overall Mergers & Acquisitions processes, methodology, and approach
- Help mature the Integration processes, methodology, and approach to align acquisitions with PayPal standards
- Assess maturity of security program through examination of security documentation, review of processes, and interviews with key staff
- Identity gaps, assess risk, and develop remediation action plan
- Develop integration plans and budgets for acquired companies.

**Qualifications**
- A security leader with experience across a range of enterprise-wide information security functions, technology architectures, capabilities, and processes.
- 5+ years of experience in a senior information security position with leadership responsibility
- Experience of M&A related technology and security due diligence preferred
- Strong working knowledge of Identity and Access Management, Cryptography and Key Management, and Vulnerability Management
- Experience in financial services or security technology industries, preferably in dynamic and fast changing environments
- Deep and proven understanding of risk management
- Track record of building program plans and budgets for which they are personally accountable

**Key Competencies Required**
- ** Collaborative leadership**: This individual must have a strong demonstrated inclusive and collaborative, team focused, orientation able to drive consensus across business and technology organizations, and developing strong, durable and effective partnerships with executives and operating teams in all geographies
- ** Outstanding technologist**: The leader will have an understanding of all facets of current technology, and a comprehensive understanding of information security.
- ** Strong interpersonal skills**: This leader must be highly articulate both verbally and in written form, be able to interact at both strategic and tactical levels, and able to effectively interact with, and influence senior leaders
- ** Written Communication Skills**: Ability to produce high quality technical reports for a wide variety of audiences including executive staff.
- ** Self-motivated and directed with strong bias to action**: The executive must have a demonstrated record of driving operations and/or projects to successful outcomes
- ** Innovation leadership**:This leader should have a demonstrated ability to lead with innovative ideas rather than follow the competition or take traditional approaches.

**Other competencies**
- Strong quantitative and analytical abilities with deep understanding of the impact of security initiatives on the financial performance of the business
- Lateral thinking and perseverance in achieving goals
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity, change and conflicting priorities
- Ability to make high quality decisions with limited information
- Be a quick learner undaunted by complex systems

Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.

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