Director, Information Security & Technology

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

GameChanger’s Information Security and Technology organization protects the products, systems, and data that the families, coaches, and young athletes who rely on us trust us with every day, and keeps the internal technology our employees depend on running smoothly. We treat security and technology as business enablers - our role is to help GameChanger move fast and grow safely.

As Director of Information Security and Technology, you will own the strategy, team, and multi-year roadmap across Information Security and IT Operations. You will lead a multidisciplinary organization responsible for product and application security, cloud security, AI security, security operations, vulnerability management, governance, risk, compliance, and internal technology support. You will lead through managers, set technical and organizational direction, and partner closely with Engineering, Product, Legal, People, Finance, executive leadership, and teams across the business to embed security and sound technology practices into how GameChanger operates.

GameChanger is a subsidiary of Dick’s Sporting Goods (DSG). You will represent GameChanger security within DSG, partnering with the DSG CISO and enterprise security organization to align tooling and processes while retaining ownership and autonomy of Security and Operations for GameChanger’s environment. You will report to the Senior Director of Engineering at GameChanger.

What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve GameChanger’s multi-year security and technology strategy, including prioritization, resourcing decisions, alignment to business and parent company goals, and communication of security investments and tradeoffs to technical and executive leadership.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security and technology operations professionals, including setting priorities, coaching teammates, managing performance, creating opportunities for growth and impact, and creating an environment to support autonomy and ownership.

• Own the direction and delivery for all key areas of information security, including product and application security, cloud security, AI security, security operations, vulnerability management, and governance, risk, and compliance functions.

• Evaluate and mitigate risks across infrastructure, product, and corporate environments.

• Set direction for AI security and governance as part of a secure SDLC and corporate environment, including the secure adoption of AI tooling, the security of AI-enabled product features, and AI usage governance, partnering with AI enablement and governance stakeholders across the company.

• Lead the governance, risk, and compliance program, including internal assessments (for example, NIST CSF 2.0), external assessments, and clear risk reporting to leadership.

• Own the security operations and incident response program for the GameChanger environment, including detection, on-call, escalation, and coordination w…