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This is a rare opportunity to build something that matters at a company that is making serious investments in security and AI. This is a high-impact, highly visible role will set the strategic direction for securing the Company’s sensitive data, while leading and growing a team of talented security engineers.\nThis role requires both the technical expertise to lead engineering teams building and operating complex security controls to support the Company's responsible adoption of AI, and the communication skills to translate that work into clear, compelling narratives for executive leadership and the board.\nWhat You Will Be Doing\nDefine, own, and execute a multi-year roadmap for data protection and cryptographic services, maturing the program from operational to industry-leading.\nEstablish and enforce data protection policies, standards, and frameworks aligned with industry best practices (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI governance standards).\nServe as the company's authoritative source on data protection strategy, advising executive leadership on risk posture and investment priorities.\nLead the architecture, deployment, and continuous improvement of the full DLP ecosystem, including Web Proxies & SSL Inspection, Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Classification & Tagging, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), and AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM)\nOwn vendor relationships, contract negotiations, and technology roadmap alignment for all data protection tooling.\nOversee the company's cryptographic standards and practices, including key management, PKI, encryption-at-rest and in-transit standards, and secrets management.\nDrive adoption of modern cryptographic controls across engineering teams, ensuring alignment with evolving standards and quantum-readiness planning.\nSet expectations, manage performance, and build a high-trust team environment where engineers do their best work.\nWhat we'd like you to have:\n10+ years of experience in information security, with at least 5 years in a people management role leading technical security teams.\nDemonstrated ability to build and mature security programs, not just operate them.\nTrack record of influencing cross-functional partners (Engineering, Legal, Compliance, IT, Product) without direct authority.\nStrong working knowledge of cryptographic principles and applied cryptography - key management lifecycles, HSMs, PKI, TLS/mTLS\nFamiliarity with cloud-native data security architectures across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure.\nWorking knowledge of AI/ML security concepts - data poisoning, model exfiltration, prompt injection, and AI governance frameworks.\nFamiliarity with agile development processes\nHands-on experience deploying AI-SPM tooling or building LLM security controls.\nIndustry Certifications like: CISSP, CCSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, AWS certification(s), Azure certification(s)\nExperience contributing to or responding to regulatory audits and certifications.\nStay up to date on everything Blackbaud, follow us on Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube\nBlackbaud powers social impact through purpose-driven technology and responsible AI. Guided by our Intelligence for Good® vision, we’re building a culture where innovation, trust, and human expertise come together to help organizations make a greater difference in the world.\nBlackbaud is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability, age, or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.\nThe starting base pay is $117,200.00 to $157,500.00. 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