Strategic Security Advisor
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About the Role
TrendAI seeks a Strategic Security Advisor to own security outcomes for strategic customers. The role blends security domain expertise with customer success, designing Security Account Success Plans and guiding security posture evolution.
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Responsibilities
- Build the Account Success Plan with customer executive sponsors, aligned to business objectives, threat landscape, prioritized workloads, and monthly credit burn plan
- Design target state security architecture mapped to the customer’s environment, risk appetite, and compliance obligations; track consumption vs. plan and trigger corrective plays when variance exceeds thresholds
- Conduct security gap analyses, technology fingerprinting, and architecture reviews; design reference architectures and deployment blueprints for workload rollouts
- Lead monthly value reviews, QBRs, and EBRs linking telemetry, usage, and risk scoring to measurable risk reduction, architecture maturity, and business impact
- Conduct security maturity and architecture assessments using industry frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, CIS Controls, Zero Trust Architecture)
- Maintain renewal health (Green / Amber / Red) with actions, owners, and timelines anchored to architecture milestones; proactively build Get well Plans
- Serve as the trusted voice across post sales engagements, ensuring 'one plan, one intake' across Customer Success, Support, Professional Services, and partners
Requirements
- 10+ years in security consulting, cloud security, security architecture, incident response, or security leadership
- Proven track record managing enterprise accounts with measurable impact on retention, expansion, and customer security outcomes
- Experience designing or advising on enterprise security architectures including hybrid/multi cloud environments, identity frameworks, and detection and response strategies
- Experience running QBRs/EBRs connecting security architecture decisions to risk reduction and business value
- Experience in automation and AI tool usage is strongly preferred
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CRISC, or equivalent demonstrated experience in enterprise security architecture or advisory roles strongly preferred
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Position Overview
- The Strategic Security Advisor owns business and security outcomes, value realization, and renewal and expansion readiness for a portfolio of strategic customers.
- Functioning as the customer’s trusted security expert, the SSA designs and guides security posture evolution while orchestrating post sales delivery across SE and various post sales functions.
Primary Responsibilities
- Architect the Security Account Success Plan (ASP) and Burn Curve
- Run Executive Cadence, Architecture Reviews, and Value Reviews
- Manage Risk, Renewal, and Advocacy
- Single Post Sales Security Authority and Coordination Point
Desired Skills
- Hard Skills: Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture principles and frameworks (NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, Zero Trust) across hybrid, multi cloud, and on premises environments
- Deep working knowledge in one or more enterprise security domains: SOC operations, SIEM/XDR, exposure and risk management, identity security, cloud security (CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP), email security
- Ability to design reference architectures, integration blueprints, and deployment patterns mapping platform capabilities to customer requirements
- Strong understanding of B2B SaaS and platform business models in cybersecurity, cloud, or infrastructure
- Ability to translate telemetry and usage data into clear, actionable architectural insights and recommendations
- Proven capability in building Success Plans, burn curves, and adoption roadmaps with an architecture first lens
- Strong inclination towards AI first approach
- Soft Skills: Executive presence engaging with CISOs, security architects, IT, and business sponsors as a trusted security advisor
- Consultative, architecture driven, outcome focused mindset – 'why' before 'what', 'design' before 'deploy'
- Structured communicator who simplifies complex security architectures into clear action plans
- Strong cross functional collaborator; calm and resilient during escalations and security incidents
Experience and Background
- Typically 10+ years in security consulting, cloud security, security architecture, incident response, or security leadership
- Proven track record managing enterprise accounts with measurable impact on retention, expansion, and customer security outcomes
- Experience designing or advising on enterprise security architectures including hybrid/multi cloud environments, identity frameworks, and detection and response strategies
- Experience running QBRs/EBRs connecting security architecture decisions to risk reduction and business value
- Experience in automation and AI tool usage is strongly preferred
- Experience working with partners, MSSPs, or MSPs is a plus
- Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CRISC, or equivalent demonstrated experience in enterprise security architecture or advisory roles strongly preferred
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