Cybersecurity Customer Assurance Lead

Cybersecurity Customer Assurance Lead    This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office. Who We Are: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE. Job Description: About Our Cybersecurity Team Are you passionate about building customer trust through cybersecurity? HPE’s Cybersecurity team protects the organization while enabling innovation, business growth, and customer confidence. We work across the company to develop effective, scalable security practices that support our customers and the business. Within the Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, we are establishing a Customer Trust Office to give customers consistent, accurate, and transparent information about our cybersecurity programm. We are looking for an experienced cybersecurity professional to build this capability and represent our security organization in important internal and external customer engagements. About You You combine broad cybersecurity expertise with strong customer-facing communication and relationship-building skills. You can engage confidently with customer security leaders, auditors, sales teams, executives, procurement organizations, and technical specialists. You listen carefully, identify the concern underlying a question, and translate complex cybersecurity topics into clear, accurate business language. You are comfortable taking ownership of high-profile discussions and exercising sound judgement when information is incomplete or stakeholder priorities differ. You balance customer needs with appropriate cybersecurity, legal, privacy, regulatory, and business considerations. You are energized by creating capabilities that do not yet exist, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems, and designing approaches that scale beyond an individual engagement. You look for recurring gaps, improve the system rather than repeatedly solving the same problem, and measure your impact through the sustainable capabilities you create. About the Role As Customer Assurance Lead, you will define the strategy and lead the establishment and maturation of our Customer Trust Office. You will serve as a senior cybersecurity adviser to internal stakeholders and external customers, enabling them to understand our security strategy, controls, practices, and approach to managing cyber risk. You will partner with Sales, account teams, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Product Security, Engineering, and other business functions to support strategic opportunities and customer relationships. You will lead complex assurance engagements and represent the organization in customer meetings, security reviews, audits, and executive briefings where broad cybersecurity expertise, sound judgement, and clear communication are essential. This role goes beyond completing customer security questionnaires or responding to individual requests. You will shape the operating model, governance, knowledge resources, and technology-enabled processes that allow customer assurance activities to operate consistently and at scale. You will improve how the work gets done and build a cap