Data Protection, Managing Director

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a Data Protection Managing Director reporting directly to the SVP of Data and AI Security. The Managing Director, Data Protection is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, governing, and scaling the firm's enterprise-wide data protection strategy. This leader will establish a modern, risk-based data security program that enables the organization's digital, cloud, AI, and data transformation objectives while protecting the firm's most critical information assets.

The role requires a visionary security leader who can balance business enablement with strong security outcomes. The successful candidate will drive the evolution from traditional data protection approaches toward a modern, intelligence-driven program focused on data discovery, classification, retention, access governance, AI security, and automated protection controls.

The Managing Director will serve as the firm's foremost authority on data security and protection, partnering across Security, Engineering, Data, Privacy, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Infrastructure, and Business teams to ensure security is embedded into platforms, pipelines, governance frameworks, and delivery processes.

Why this role is important to us

This role sits in the AI & Data Protection team which is part of the Global Cybersecurity group at State Street. Global Cybersecurity is vital to the bank because it protects client trust, safeguards critical assets, enables business growth, and ensures the bank can operate safely in an increasingly complex threat and regulatory environment.

What you will be responsible for

* Define and execute the firm's multi-year Enterprise Data Protection Strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory obligations, cloud transformation initiatives, and AI adoption.

* Establish a comprehensive framework for protecting sensitive information throughout its lifecycle, including:

* Data discovery

* Classification

* Access governance

* Retention and disposal

* Encryption and key management

* Monitoring and protection controls

* Drive a modern security model focused on protecting data regardless of location, platform, user, or technology stack.

* Develop executive-level metrics and reporting that quantify data risk, control effectiveness, and remediation progress.

* Lead enterprise initiatives to know, understand, and reduce data risk at scale.

* Establish programs to identify and continuously inventory:

* Sensitive customer and firm data

* Regulated and restricted information

* Secrets and credentials

* Legacy data stores

* High-risk repositories

* Shadow data environments

* Create risk-based approaches to classify, prioritize, and remediate high-risk data concentrations across on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and emerging AI environments.

* Develop actionable intelligence that enables business leaders and technology teams to understand where sensitive data resides and how it is exposed.

* AI Data security & Protection - Lead the firm's strategy for protecting data from emerging AI-related threats and misuse.

* Establish controls and protections against:

* Prompt injection attacks

* Model misuse

* Data leakage through AI systems

* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) data exposure

* Adversarial AI attacks

* Model manipulation

* AI-enabled social engineering

* Partner closely with AI, Engineering, and Security Architecture teams to ensure AI capabilities are deployed using:

* Secure-by-default configurations

* Approved usage patterns

* Security guardrails

* Automated controls

* Enterprise-approved AI platforms

* Develop data protection requirements for AI models, agents, copilots, and emerging autonomous systems.

* Establish rigorous enterprise-wide data lifecycle management and retention programs designed to minimize unnecessary data exposure.

* Drive initiatives to:

* Eliminate obsolete and redundant data

* Reduce data longevity where business value no longer exists

* Improve defensibility and regulatory compliance

* Reduce attack surface through data minimization

* Partner with Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and business stakeholders to implement practical retention schedules and automated disposal capabilities.

* Ensure…