Title:  Senior Director of Information Security

QuantumScape developed the industry’s first anode-less cell design, which delivers high energy density while lowering material costs and simplifying manufacturing. Our innovative battery cell technology can store energy more efficiently and reliably than today’s lithium-ion batteries.

QuantumScape is seeking a knowledgeable, experienced, and collaborative teammate to lead the cybersecurity team. Our information security team establishes security policies and ensures we comply with our policies through measurement, validation, and technical enforcement. The highest priorities are securing the company intellectual property and ensuring continuity of operations. The ideal candidate will have a customer oriented focus, be comfortable managing by the numbers (SLAs, quality and efficiency metrics, budget), work as a trusted thought partner to functional leaders to support current and future needs, and report status to executives, the Board of Directors, and auditors.

The company IP is critical to our value; you will be responsible for advancing and maintaining the company's security posture to secure it from threats. You will define and iterate quality metrics, security metrics, and SLAs. You will also then drive execution towards them. You will mentor and lead a team to implement the strategy you develop. You will identify and select vendors for a range of solutions to issues that you identify. You will be responsible for the information security budget, including approving purchases, and engaging in benchmarking to support cost effectiveness and advocate for security investments.

You seek learning opportunities and continually educate yourself to stay up-to-speed on the latest developments in the fast-moving industry of cybersecurity. You have experience in operating and leadership roles in security and working with IT.

The context:

As a public company with highly unique IP in an emerging area of geopolitical strategic importance and tremendous market opportunity, we must take the security threats very seriously while supporting commercialization and rapid subsequent scale-up of manufacturing and business operations. Simultaneously, security must be driven while keeping in mind cost, operational efficiency, and performance in a nimble, innovative, and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures, as well as with the TISAX information security standard
• Manage information security team to effectively deliver on goals and priorities.
• Report status and risks regularly to executives, the Board of Directors, and auditors
• Run security engineering, security operations, compliance, reporting, investigations, and incident response.
• Set and deliver SLAs to support business needs
• Balance security and effectiveness to support employee and team workplace productivity and collaboration
• Manage costs to a budget to increase delivered value from software; track productivity metrics and benchmark to peers
• Work closely with software development and data science teams to enable them to deploy software on secure infrastructure

Required Experience:

• BS in a computing or information field
• 15+ years' experience in information security with significant exposure to hybrid cloud and self-hosted computing infrastructure
• 10+ years' of management and leadership experience

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in cybersecurity is a must; experience in manufacturing environments such as automotive and battery technology is a plus.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions to support physical labs or manufacturing, including server/storage strategy, MES and SCADA integration
• Track record of on-time project execution, driving spend effectiveness/efficiency, and security performance
• You have learned from the best in either a leading software company or Federal government information security
• You may have advanced IT and/or security credentials from programs such as EC-Council CISO, SANS, or Stanford Advanced Cybersecurity. You may have knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks such as ISO27001 or NIST CyberSecurity Framework (CSF)

This position is required to perform these above essential duties and responsibilities onsite at our QS offices. 

Compensation & Benefits: Salary range for this role is $208,600-$292,100, and a salary will be determined by the candidate's experience and educational background. QuantumScape also offers an annual bonus and a generous RSU/Equity package as part of its compensation plan. In addition, we do offer a tremendous benefits plan including employee paid health care, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and other exciting perks.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.