Chief Product Security Officer (M/F)

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

By joining us, you will integrate a site located between the sea and the Provençal hills, bringing together our digital identity and security activities and our defense activities combining both engineering and production, and fostering a collaborative and friendly working environment.

Project / role / missions description

As Chief Product Security Officer, you will lead a team dedicated to the offensive and defensive security of Artificial Intelligence systems. Your role involves identifying vulnerabilities through penetration testing and implementing robust protection measures to secure solutions. You will work on two strategic aspects:

• Central Security: protection of DIS solutions (from R&D to operation), management of certifications (sites, PSC, data centers, cloud), coordination of security evaluations, definition of governance, and animation of the "security by design" community.
• RS CBU France: interface between the CBU France and the Group Security Directorate, coordination of the network of site security managers, management of action plans, monitoring of incidents, and support for site security managers.

Your main missions are:

• Define minimum security requirements for the introduction and operation of solutions.
• Perform risk analyses on new projects, from design to production.
• Ensure regulatory compliance (GDPR, audits, certifications).
• Contribute to internal audits, penetration tests, and security derogation management.
• Define security maturity KPIs (products, sites, data centers, cloud).
• Coordinate security communities (software, regional) and support certifications (manufacturing, data centers, cloud).
• Represent DIS to clients, regulators, and industry bodies (Visa, Mastercard, GSMA, etc.).
• Manage security within CBU France: risk assessment, harmonization of measures, incident management, dissemination of security culture, coordination with RSSI, business continuity, and crisis management.

Your profile

Is your priority to strengthen the security and resilience of AI systems and digital solutions?

Do you have the ambition to build and lead a robust, innovative, and recognized cybersecurity strategy?

Do you want to coordinate a highly visible role, at the heart of the strategic challenges of DIS?

You have an engineering degree or equivalent and at least 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, particularly in:

• Audit, risk management, and implementation of compliance frameworks.
• Security tools and infrastructures (PKI, Key Management, vulnerability, WAF, etc.).
• Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), DevOps, and industrial processes.
• Threat analysis, cyber crisis management, and security of complex systems.

Are communication, leadership, pedagogy, strategic vision, agility, and team spirit recognized assets for you?

Then this position is for you!

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