Managing Director - OT Security

Job Posting End Date

11-11-2026

Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.

Job Summary

The Managing Director, OT Security provides senior leadership for the cybersecurity strategy, operating model, services, and risk outcomes protecting operational technology across AEP's Transmission, Distribution, and Generation fleet, including nuclear generation in coordination with the licensed nuclear cybersecurity program. The role leads a shared-services OT Security organization and aligns priorities, investment, talent, and delivery with business-unit operational needs, enterprise cybersecurity strategy, NERC CIP, NRC, and internal cybersecurity requirements, and the safety, reliability, and resilience expectations of critical infrastructure.

This leader must bring deep, practical understanding of the business of electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and how electricity systems are protected from cyber threats. The Managing Director is accountable for ensuring OT Security group can define security requirements, lead architecture and engineering efforts, validate security outcomes, prioritize vulnerability risk, integrate monitoring and detection, coordinate OT incident response and recovery, assess technology, maintain trusted Business Unit partnerships, and build missing OT security capabilities.

The role operates through established enterprise authorities and leverages Enterprise Security capabilities rather than duplicating them.

Please note:

This position is 100% onsite in either Columbus, OH or Austin, TX

Leadership Accountabilities

• Set and communicate the OT Security vision, strategy, priorities, service model, and multi-year direction across the in-scope operational technology environment.
• Provide executive leadership for the OT Security portfolio and its persistent services, ensuring clear ownership, quality, prioritization, integration, performance, and measurable risk reduction.
• Align OT cybersecurity priorities and investment with Transmission, Distribution, Generation, and Nuclear leaders, Enterprise Security, enterprise risk and governance functions, operational reliability requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Establish clear accountability, delegated decision authority, engagement boundaries, escalation paths, and operating expectations across OT Security, Business Units, Enterprise Security, projects, vendors, and other service owners.
• Guide portfolio demand, capacity, organizational design, talent strategy, and sourcing based on risk, service health, planned outages, incidents, delivery performance, emerging threats, and business demand.
• Ensure material OT cyber risk, unresolved control gaps, readiness concerns, dependencies, and ownership conflicts are transparent to senior leadership and escalated through authorized governance paths.
• Maintain the technical depth and credibility to challenge high-consequence engineering and security conclusions, and sponsor consistent technical-review, validation, and quality practices.
• Build durable executive partnerships with Business Unit and Enterprise Security leaders so OT security work aligns to operating cadence, work authorization, safety, change management, maintenance, and incident processes.
• Develop leaders and a multidisciplinary OT cybersecurity team with succession depth, cross-training, delegated authority, strong technical judgment, and clear primary and secondary coverage.
• Represent OT cybersecurity in senior governance forums and serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership and the Board on operational cyber risk, capability gaps, technology choices, resilience, and security investment.

Operational Technology Domain Expertise

The Managing Director must bring deep,…