# Director, International Strategy & Enablement - Global Payment Network Risk & Advisory

**Company**: Capital One
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,400 - $263,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Director to lead the International Strategy and Enablement (ISE) team as part of the Second Line Global Payment Network (GPN) Risk & Advisory Organization. You will drive the build-out of a standardized, international risk capability that supports GPN's expansion into new markets around the world.

Responsibilities:

- Prioritize and sequence capability-build work (frameworks, playbooks, automation, etc.), based on business need and urgency

- Drive alignment across the teams that build and deliver technology and cybersecurity capabilities and the independent risk-oversight teams

- Lead development of the framework used to inform GPN new market entry and exit by risk level, determining the degree of scrutiny and oversight required before the business can enter

- Provide advisory input, focused on international risk considerations, into GPN technology rollouts with cross-border impact and into the broader function that manages third-party and vendor risk

- Engage regularly with senior executives, translating risk posture, market-entry readiness, and tradeoffs into clear, actionable terms

- Monitor and use trends in risk exposure across markets and initiatives to inform ongoing international risk advisory and enhancement of ISE capabilities

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of risk professionals, growing their ability to operate independently across a complex, cross-functional stakeholder landscape

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree or military experience

- At least 9 years of experience in technology (software delivery, distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure as code), cybersecurity (identity and access management, application security, cloud security, data protection), technology auditing, systems risk management, technology risk assessments, resilience engineering (operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability), chaos engineering (fault injection, blast radius mitigation, automated security validation), site reliability engineering (SLAs or SLOs, observability, incident response), or a combination

- At least 5 years of experience in enterprise risk management or operational risk management

- At least 5 years of experience in program, project, or portfolio management

- At least 5 years of experience in people management

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's Degree

- 10+ years of experience in risk management (enterprise, operational, or technology risk)

- 8+ years of experience in program, project, or portfolio management

- 6+ years of experience in a second-line or oversight role at a financial institution or regulatory agency

- 6+ years of experience in people management

- Experience in data governance, data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR), or data taxonomy classification and standards

- Experience in international market expansion, cross-border risk management, or import/export risk management

- Experience in Banking or Financial Services

- Professional certification in risk, compliance, privacy, or technology, such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, Open FAIR, PMP, CRCM, CIPP, or an ABA Risk Management Certification

- Familiarity with Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, or formal program/project management methodologies

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are: McLean, VA: $230,400 - $263,000 for Director, Tech Risk & Analysis Richmond, VA: $209,500 - $239,100 for Director, Tech Risk & Analysis

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

## Skills

### Required
- technology risk management
- cybersecurity
- data protection
- risk management
- program management
- people management

### Nice to have
- Master's Degree
- data governance
- international market expansion

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