Vice President, Executive Communities

RSA Conference•Boston, MA

11d•Remote

About The Position

RSAC is the premier series of global events and year‑round learning for the cybersecurity community. RSAC is where the security industry converges to discuss current and future concerns and gain access to experts, unbiased content, and ideas that help individuals and companies advance their cybersecurity posture and build stronger, smarter teams. Both in‑person and online, RSAC brings the cybersecurity industry together and empowers the collective “we” to stand against cyberthreats around the world. RSAC is the ultimate marketplace for the latest technologies and hands‑on educational opportunities, helping industry professionals discover how to make their organisations more secure while showcasing the most enterprising, influential, and thought‑provoking thinkers and leaders in cybersecurity today. RSAC Conference is the world’s leading cybersecurity conference and a year-round platform for the people, ideas, and technology shaping the future of security. The Vice President, Executive Communities will own RSAC’s portfolio of executive programs and is charged with transforming these communities from event-anchored touchpoints into a sustained, trusted, and ultimately monetizable line of business.

Requirements

15+ years of leadership experience spanning executive community building, membership organizations, executive programs, content/editorial leadership, or senior-level event programming — with meaningful exposure to cybersecurity, enterprise technology, or an analogous high-trust executive audience.
Demonstrated ability to convene and earn the trust of C-suite executives in confidential, peer-only settings.
Track record of building or scaling a paid membership, executive program, or premium community business; comfort with monetization questions including pricing, sponsor models, and packaging.
Experience leading and developing teams that include both full-time staff and external contractors, and operating across content, community, product, and commercial functions.
Strong editorial and curatorial instincts — able to set an agenda, identify the right voices, and shape conversations that senior leaders find genuinely valuable.
Sophisticated judgment around confidentiality, attribution, and the appropriate role of sponsors in executive settings.
Excellent executive presence and written/verbal communication; able to represent RSAC credibly to CISOs, fraud executives, sponsors, media, and policymakers.
Comfortable partnering with product and engineering counterparts to translate community needs into platform requirements.
Residency in one of the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington

Nice To Haves

Direct cybersecurity domain knowledge, or prior operating experience as or alongside a CISO.
Experience designing alumni, emeritus, or mentorship programs intended to capture institutional knowledge.
Experience building research, polling, or insights products derived from a senior practitioner community.
Familiarity with policy or public-affairs surfaces where industry findings can be translated into action.

Responsibilities

Oversee all RSAC Executive Communities, with responsibility for full-time employees and contractors; set vision, structure, operating cadence, and performance standards for the team.
Partner with the RSAC product team to articulate platform requirements for year-round engagement across distinct executive communities — with confidentiality and trust at the core of every experience.
Further develop business plan for eFG, exploring opportunities for conference-within-a-conference (with sponsors and exhibitors), different pass opportunities, year-round membership motions, and other international offerings
Develop new partnerships and relationships with leading organizations, including WEF, to raise profile of work and gain engagement in RSAC-driven initiatives
Carefully navigate the precedent that RSAC’s executive programs have, to date, been offered free of charge; develop a path forward that preserves trust and exclusivity while building a sustainable financial model.
Research and recommend monetization options, including individual paid memberships, sponsor-underwritten participation, or hybrid models — with clear point-of-view on tradeoffs to membership composition, candor, and brand.
Carefully calibrate the role and voice of sponsors in any commercial model so that sponsor presence enhances rather than dilutes the member experience and the confidentiality of the room.
Build the operating model, pricing, packaging, and forecast for Executive Communities as a defined RSAC line of business, with ties into RSAC Conference as well as international offerings, with clear KPIs around member acquisition, retention, NPS, engagement, and revenue.
Drive durable engagement and loyalty across the present and future executive communities, with deliberate retention mechanisms to capture institutional knowledge as members rotate roles.
Propose advisory councils and groups of key security and fraud leaders to advise RSAC on executive programming as well as corporate strategy and initiatives as a whole