Senior Manager, Cybersecurity, AI SOC & Crisis Management

Stryker • Kalamazoo, MI

7d • Remote

About The Position

As a Senior Manager, AI Security Operations & Crisis Management, you will lead the enterprise Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and coordinate incidents through recovery and closure. You will advance AI-enabled operations and crisis readiness with Investigations, Threat Hunting & Forensics and enterprise partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in cybersecurity operations, incident response, crisis management, technology operations, or enterprise service delivery.
• Minimum 5 years of leadership experience managing technical teams, global operations, strategic initiatives, or managed services.
• Experience leading significant cybersecurity incidents with technical, business, legal, communications, and executive stakeholders.
• Experience managing a Security Operations Center, CIRT, Managed Detection and Response service, or comparable operational capability.
• Experience implementing or governing AI-enabled workflows, automation, orchestration, or technology-enabled operational transformation.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Business Administration, Technology Management, or a related discipline.
• Professional certification such as CISSP, CISM, GCIH, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead global CIRT operations, including follow-the-sun coverage, escalation, containment, recovery, closure, and continuity during outages.
• Oversee managed detection and response providers, including readiness, governance, performance, escalation quality, budgets, licensing, and commitments.
• Advance responsible AI-assisted triage, investigation, decision support, documentation, and response with oversight, approvals, auditability, and reversibility.
• Own the Cyber Defense digital twin roadmap and operationalize capabilities by defining use cases, requirements, success measures, acceptance, adoption, and legacy retirement.
• Direct incident response; govern non-destructive containment and automated actions; and engage Investigations, Threat Hunting & Forensics.
• Monitor response time, escalation and case quality, automation effectiveness, queue health, service levels, and corrective actions.
• Own the detection content lifecycle with Detection Engineering, including rule development, tuning, coverage mapping, and deprecation.
• Partner with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Threat Exposure Management, Vulnerability Management, Security Engineering, and Enterprise Technology to improve response.
• Own cyber crisis management and CIRT activation, including severity criteria, escalation thresholds, leadership notifications, governance, and operational coordination.
• Lead executive briefings, stakeholder updates, reporting, communication cadence, and documentation of significant decisions.
• Coordinate response with crisis, communications, legal, privacy, human resources, procurement, continuity, and technology operations teams.
• Lead executive tabletop, functional, and technical exercises; maintain the roadmap and close corrective actions.
• Lead post-incident reviews and incorporate technical findings and root-cause lessons into playbooks and readiness activities.
• Build CIRT leadership depth through coaching, exercises, structured development, and clear performance expectations.
• Apply incident response, recovery, crisis communications, business continuity, and crisis coordination practices during high-pressure events.
• Translate issues into business terms and coordinate concurrent workstreams using risk-based decisions.
• Integrate FDA, HIPAA, SEC cyber disclosure, sanctions compliance, and other reporting considerations into response processes.
• Address threats involving contractors and contingent workers through identity verification and access revocation coordination.
• Participate in after-hours or on-call incident response and crisis management activities.

Benefits

• Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability. Stryker Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior