**Essential duties & responsibilities** + Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and mentor a global team of QA Analysts, fostering a high-performance culture built on trust, clarity, and professional growth. + Cross-Functional Influence: Collaborate and influence without direct authority across cybersecurity, IT, compliance, and business stakeholders to drive cohesive, risk-aligned QA practices. + Risk-Based Prioritization: Guide the QA team in prioritizing testing and validation activities based on enterprise risk tolerance, focusing resources on controls and processes that mitigate the most significant threats. + Proactive Continuous Improvement: Champion a forward-leaning approach to identifying inefficiencies, gaps, or opportunities for improvement in security processes and controls, and lead efforts to implement meaningful change. + Empowered Execution: Encourage a mindset of ownership and accountability within the team, enabling team members to act decisively within their scope and escalate when appropriate. + Metrics & Reporting: Define and evolve KPIs to measure the effectiveness of QA activities and security controls, providing clear reporting to leadership that informs strategic decisions. + Incident Support & Simulation: Oversee team participation in incident simulations and post-incident reviews, ensuring QA is integral to both preparedness and after-action learning. + Governance & Framework Alignment: Ensure QA activities support compliance with industry frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST), regulatory expectations, and internal governance policies. + Strategic Communication: Deliver concise, actionable updates to senior leadership, translating technical findings into business-relevant insights. **What you need** + ​Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field. + Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISA, CISM, GCIH, GSOC, GSOM) preferred. + 6+ years professional experience with 4+ years in cybersecurity or related field. + Proven experience coordinating across diverse, global teams in a matrixed enterprise environment. + Strong understanding of cybersecurity controls, threat detection, and incident management practices. + Experience developing and using KPIs and metrics to measure operational effectiveness. + Track record of initiating or contributing to process improvement efforts. Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.