Who We Are Looking For 

The Vice President, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) provides cyber risk management oversight to lines of business and legal entities within State Street, sitting within the first line of defense and reporting into the Senior BISO (MD). The VP BISO leads a small team focused on providing cyber advisory services, building application- and service-level threat models, executing a cyber book of work aligned to State Street business units, and delivering metrics and cyber-driven content that support the business’s enhanced decision-making framework. 

BISO roles and responsibilities span multiple domains, including Information Security and Risk Management, Cyber Incident and Response Management, Cyber Controls Analysis, and Cyber Reporting.

Why this role is important to us

Global Cybersecurity (GCS) manages cyber risk across State Street’s business entities by delivering timely, actionable insights that enable informed decision-making and strengthen the firm’s cyber risk culture. Within GCS, the Business Information Security Officer (BISO) function is the trusted advisor that embeds security within the business, serving as the conduit between GCS and the business units — providing guidance on policy, standard, and control compliance, and promoting cyber awareness across the organization. 

What You Will Be Responsible For 

• Partner with senior business and technology leaders through timely data delivery to enable informed decision-making, prioritization, and risk-based trade-offs. 

• Oversee and actively manage risks in line with risk appetite through continuous business unit engagement, escalating open risk items to aligned business leadership. 

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify information assets and assess the protection needs requirements for the entire line of business and legal entity. 

• Perform cyber risk assessments at the application / platform / system levels to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats, analyze impacts to the bank, and determine protections required; own application- and service-level threat models. 

• Integrate information security risk review into lifecycle processes such as Incident Management, Vulnerability Management, Third-Party Risk Review, Cyber Resiliency, eSDLC, and Change and Project Management. 

• Represent the global cybersecurity organization as a member of business control committees, risk committees, and specialized forums. 

• Prepare and deliver executive-ready presentations and briefings on protection-needs outcomes, threat models, and control results to mid- and senior-level leadership. 

• Report significant changes in information security risk to the appropriate level of management on both a periodic and an event-driven basis. 

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Technical Judgment & Knowledge 

Aligned to the GCS BISO cyber technical skills model, the VP should demonstrate practitioner-level depth across several of the domains below and be able to answer probing questions and coach others. Assess each area against the proficiency scale at the end of this document. 

Core Technologies 

• Cloud & modern platform security (Azure, AWS, or cloud principles; hybrid and multi-cloud) 

• Networking and network security 

• Security architecture fundamentals and control design effectiveness 

• Operating systems 

Supporting Processes 

• Cryptography, encryption, and key management 

• Patching and vulnerability management 

• Cyber resiliency, incident response, and recovery (tabletop exercises, playbooks, after-action reviews) 

• Data classification and data protection 

• Secure communication protocols 

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Privileged Access concepts 

• Secure SDLC, secure engineering, and DevSecOps 

• Third-party & supply chain security (vendor assessments, shared responsibility models) 

• Security operations & monitoring (SOC / SIEM awareness, KPIs, posture reporting) 

Emerging Technology & AI 

The BISO function upskills talent to manage current and emerging cyber risk, including evolving frontier-model AI risk. Candidates should be able to: 

• Articulate the risks associated with Generative AI, and the differences between Generative AI, Agentic AI, and traditional Machine Learning. 

• Demonstrate an understanding of model risk, frontier models, and the risk management around them. 

• Show strong technical expertise in at least two focus areas across Multi-Cloud, AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Software Supply Chain, and Quantum Computing. 

• Use AI effectively to solve problems; experience with Agentic AI use cases and deployments is a plus. 

Risk Management 

• Understands how to measure risk, discuss trade-offs, and support risk-acceptance decisions in line with risk appetite. 

• Familiarity with recognized standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001). 

• Understanding of issue management, triage, remediation tracking, and residual-risk scoring. 

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What We Value 

These skills will help you succeed in this role: 

• Establish key relationships with business risk executives, third-party management, client relations, global technology services, second and third lines of defense, and internal regulatory teams. 

• Identify friction and complexities that hinder efficient security controls and coordinate or escalate solutions. 

• Translate technical risk into clear, actionable business terms for both technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Good understanding of agile methodology, tools, procedures, and iterative decision-making processes. 

• Experience working with dashboards and data-mining tools to build cyber risk profiles. 

• Demonstrates continuous learning; stays current on emerging threats, technologies, and trends, and can explain how they keep up to date. 

• Knows when to admit knowledge gaps and can describe how they would go about obtaining the needed information. 

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Education & Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field — or equivalent work-aligned experience. 

• CISSP or CISM required. CRISC, CISA, SSCP, CCSP, CEH, or GIAC certifications highly valued. 

• Emerging-tech / AI security certification a strong plus — e.g., ISACA Advanced in AI Security Management (AAISM), the first AI-centric security management credential (for CISM/CISSP holders), covering AI Governance & Program Management, AI Risk Management, and AI Technologies & Controls.  

• 5+ years working with business leadership across enterprise projects;  

• Strong analytical, communication (written and verbal), research, and organizational skills; strong interpersonal skills including active listening, dependability, and teamwork.