🛡️ Cybersecurity Leadership Opportunities (Director / Head / CISO)📍 Stockholm, Sweden (Hybrid) 🕒 Full-time | Permanent🌟 About these opportunitiesWe are partnering with a range of leading organisations across Sweden to identify and engage high-calibre cybersecurity leaders for upcoming and confidential opportunities.
Rather than hiring for a single role, we are building a select talent pipeline of experienced professionals who can step into strategic cybersecurity leadership positions over the coming months.
These roles will play a critical part in shaping secure, resilient, and future-ready organisations across the Nordic region.🌍 About the rolesAs a Cybersecurity Leader (Director / Head / CISO level), you will drive and evolve the organisation’s security strategy, ensuring robust protection of digital assets, operations, and customers.
- You will operate at the intersection of technology, risk, and business, leading security transformation while enabling innovation in an increasingly complex threat landscape.🚀 What you will do🔐 Cybersecurity Strategy & Leadership
- Define and execute enterprise-wide cybersecurity strategies
- Advise executive leadership on cyber risk, resilience, and investment priorities
- Build and lead high-performing security teams🏗️ Security Architecture & Engineering
- Oversee secure design across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
- Drive adoption of modern security frameworks (e.g., Zero Trust)
- Establish and enforce security standards and governance👁️ Security Operations & Incident Response
- Lead and mature Security Operations Center (SOC) capabilities
- Oversee threat detection, monitoring, and incident response
- Improve automation, visibility, and response effectiveness🕵️ Cyber Investigations & Threat Management
- Lead complex cyber incident investigations and forensic analysis
- Establish incident playbooks and escalation frameworks
- Collaborate with external stakeholders, including authorities and industry bodies🤝 Stakeholder & Partner Management
- Act as a key interface between cybersecurity, IT, and business units
- Manage external vendors, MSSPs, and outsourcing partners
- Embed security into digital transformation initiatives📜 Risk, Compliance & Governance
- Ensure compliance with frameworks such as GDPR, NIS2, and ISO 27001Lead risk management and reporting processes
- Strengthen organisational security awareness and culture🌱 Talent & Culture
- Mentor and develop cybersecurity professionals
- Foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement
- Build succession pipelines for future security leaders✅ Your profile
- Experience in a senior cybersecurity leadership role (Director, Head, or CISO)
- Strong background in security architecture, engineering, and operations (SOC)
- Experience in incident response, investigations, and threat management
- Knowledge of cloud security (Azure/AWS) and enterprise IT environments
- Familiarity with SIEM/SOAR and modern security technologies
- Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks
- Proven leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Fluent in English (Swedish is a plus)🌟
Who you are
- Strategic, yet hands-on when needed
- Calm and decisive in high-pressure situations
- Collaborative and transparent in your leadership style
- Passionate about developing people and teams
- Pragmatic and business-oriented🎁 Why engage with us
- Early access to confidential and upcoming leadership roles
- Opportunities across top-tier organisations in Sweden and the Nordics
- A tailored and discreet recruitment process
- Long-term career partnership and market insight🧭 Location
- Opportunities are primarily based in Stockholm and across the Nordic region, with hybrid flexibility.✉️ Next steps
- If you’re open to exploring future cybersecurity leadership opportunities, we’d welcome a confidential conversation
