Senior Director, Adversary Services

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Primary Purpose: The Senior Director will be responsible for translating real-world adversary behavior into actionable security outcomes, enhancing detection capabilities, strengthening resilience, and enabling informed risk-based decision-making across the organization, with a particular focus on cloud environments. Through the integration of threat intelligence, adversary emulation, red teaming, and detection engineering, the Senior Director will proactively identify, simulate, and mitigate evolving cyber threats while advancing enterprise cybersecurity objectives.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Cybersecurity to:

Adversary Services Strategy & Program Leadership

• Define and execute the strategic vision, operating model, and roadmap for the Adversary Services function

• Lead and oversee multiple specialized cybersecurity teams and capabilities, including Threat Intelligence, Adversary Emulation, Red Team Operations, Detection Validation, and Security Research

• Set organizational priorities, allocate resources, and balance investments across the Adversary Services sub-function to drive strategic objectives, strengthen enterprise security outcomes, and support enterprise risk management and business priorities

• Establish standards for engagement planning, execution, reporting, and measurement of program impact

Threat Intelligence & Actor Tracking

• Lead ongoing tracking and analysis of relevant threat actors, including eCrime groups, ransomware operators, and targeted intrusion actors

• Translate intelligence into actionable hypotheses aligned to organizational risk, including business initiatives and cloud environments

• Maintain comprehensive adversary playbooks mapped to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK

Adversary Emulation & Red Team Operations

• Design and execute high-fidelity adversary emulation campaigns grounded in real-world attacker tradecraft

• Conduct red team engagements to assess the effectiveness of preventative, detective, and response controls across identity, endpoint, SaaS, and cloud platforms

• Develop and scale reusable tooling, automation, and emulation capabilities

Detection Engineering & Security Partnerships

• Partner closely with Detection Engineering and Blue Team functions to develop and refine behavior-based detections

• Contribute to the development and tuning of analytics across cloud telemetry, including identity, control plane, and workload signals

• Drive continuous validation cycles (emulate → detect → refine → measure) through purple team exercises

Executive Engagement & Risk Advisory

• Deliver clear, data-driven briefings to senior leadership on threat-driven risk and its impact on key business initiatives

• Drive security outcomes that materially improve the organization's ability to manage cyber risk, protect critical business initiatives, strengthen operational resilience, and support enterprise growth objectives

• Direct the resolution of highly complex and multifaceted cybersecurity challenges involving emerging threats, cloud security, identity security, detection effectiveness, and enterprise risk management

• Provide prioritized recommendations on threats, attack paths, control gaps, and investment decisions

• Represent Adversary Services in governance forums, incident response escalations, and strategic security initiatives

The accomplished individual will possess

• 10+ years of experience across a combination of:

• Threat Intelligence (including adversary tracking and TTP analysis)

• Red Teaming, Adversary Emulation, or Purple Teaming

• Offensive Security or Security Consulting

• Proven ability to lead senior technical teams and influence cross-functional stakeholders, including executives

• Strong understanding of attacker methodologies, including identity compromise, phishing, lateral movement, persistence, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration

• Comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity program interdependencies across Technology, Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms, Digital, Data, and Enterprise Risk functions, with the ability to assess threats within a global business environment

An outstanding professional will have

• Offensive security certifications such as OSCP or OSCE.

• Experience conducting security research within cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, and SaaS platforms)

• Programming proficiency (e.g., Python) for tooling, automation, or security analytics

• Ability to effectively translate complex technical findings into executive-level insights

• Strong bias toward action and measurable outcomes

• Collaborative mindset with a focus on advancing defensive capabilities

• Passion for combating cyber threats and improving organizational resilience

Base Pay Range

€154,000 - €176,000

The salary range shown represents the full-time equivalent base pay for this position at the time of posting, in line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive. For part-time roles, the salary will be pro-rated based on contracted hours. Actual compensation will be determined using objective, job-related criteria.

What Tapestry can offer you

- Annual Incentive Plan (company performance bonus)

- Option to finish early on a Friday (Flex Fridays)

- 1 Paid Volunteering Day per year and opportunities to volunteer with global projects

- Learning & Development opportunities

- Internal mobility & career progression

- Regular Social Events - Seasonal & Cultural

- Equity Inclusion & Diversity initiatives which include employee resource groups & regional inclusion council

- Multi brand discount up to 50% off – Coach and Kate Spade

- Free 24/7 support for family building, fertility and menopause with Maven

- Employee Assistance Program

At Tapestry, we are committed to building a diverse & inclusive workforce. We know that having a wide range of perspectives and experiences makes us more innovative and brings us closer to our consumers. If you are interested in this role but do not believe you meet all the set criteria, that’s ok. We are happy to work with individuals who have the drive, passion, agility and willingness to learn. So, take a chance and apply; you may just be who we are looking for. We would be delighted to hear from you.

Our Competencies for All Employees

Courage : Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary. Creativity : Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings. Customer Focus : Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect. Dealing with Ambiguity : Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in