Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.

Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.

As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.

The Director of Risk Assessment will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive risk assessment framework to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities within our information systems. This role will require collaboration with various stakeholders to ensure that risk management strategies align with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Risk Identification and Analysis: Lead efforts to identify, assess, and prioritize risks related to information security, data privacy, and compliance.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with IT, compliance, legal, and other relevant departments to ensure a holistic approach to risk management.
  • Reporting: Prepare and present comprehensive risk assessment reports to senior management and the board, highlighting key risks, vulnerabilities, and recommended mitigation strategies.
  • Policy Development: Collaborate in the development and revision of security policies and procedures based on identified risks and industry standards.
  • Training and Awareness: Develop and deliver training programs to enhance organizational awareness of risk management practices and security policies.
  • Continuous Improvement: Monitor and review risk assessment processes regularly to identify areas for improvement and ensure alignment with evolving threats and regulatory changes.
  • Incident Response Support: Participate in incident response activities by providing insights into risk implications and recommending mitigation strategies.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
  • 7+ years of experience in risk assessment, information security, or a related field, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
  • Strong understanding of risk management principles, frameworks, and methodologies.
  • Experience with regulatory compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with a detail-oriented approach.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing and collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in risk assessment tools and software.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC).
  • Experience with security audits and compliance assessments.

Salary Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $189,000. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location and relevant experience, education, certifications, and seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. There is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the salary analysis.

Here are some of our local benefits:

  • Three week's paid time off on top of 12 paid holidays, floating holidays, and holiday allowance increase based on tenure
  • Gym membership subsidy
  • Medical and dental insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • College Savings Plan
  • Travel assistance
  • 401(k) with up to 4% employer match

At ABBYY you will: 

Love how you work

  • We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
  • We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
  • Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
  • To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.

Love whom you work with

  • We are a global team of 800+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
  • With 30+ nationalities and ages ranging from 21 to 80, our workforce reflects the world.
  • Innovation and excellence run through our veins.
  • Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
  • We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.

Love what you work on

  • We are a company with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market.
  • Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK in our client portfolio.
  • ABBYY has modernized the way companies leverage their data in documents by creating the first low-code/no-code Intelligent Document Processing platform.
  • Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a Marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process.
  • Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.

ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website. ​

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