The posting
Job Description
Who We Are Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA’s diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world’s top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.
The Role
This is a hands-on security position working within the Information Security group and with the internal IT department at large. This position’s core focus is to ensure consistent, measurable end to end delivery of security services. The successful candidate will work to develop and deploy capabilities ensuring enterprise systems and data are protected with the security controls and tools required to meet policy and compliance requirements.
We are looking for candidates who have a passion for cybersecurity, threat detection, risk mitigation and response. You will be a key part of our efforts to build and support a defensible environment where we are able to detect, contain and respond quickly to threats and compromises in ways that serve to enable the business needs of a highly collaborative organization. The environment is fast-paced and commonly on the leading edge of technology, including early adoption of various cloud services along with the challenges of integrating those services into our security practice.
Responsibilities
Support a Technology Vendor Management program, ensuring technology risk reviews across multiple disciplines, and monitoring for renewals and savings opportunities
Participate in risk reviews of the IT control framework (NIST CSF, CIS, ITIL, ISO 270001, etc.)
Conduct thorough vendor, product and applications security assessments partnering with systems owners to integrate security early during the project lifecycle.
Partner with business groups to review workflows, producing output to enhance security processes in support of those workflows.
Coordinate, across service owners, the implementation of core security integrations (SSO, Event Logs, Secrets, Alerting, Threat Model and Backup/Recovery) with applications developed in-house and externally/SaaS hosted environments.
Ensure the security considerations identified are implemented and the solutions are configured securely.
Coordinate with IRM leadership to develop and deliver key security metrics to ensure technical security controls are meeting desired objectives; ensuring the measurable effectiveness of CAA’s technical controls.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3-4 years in Information Technology
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in cybersecurity risk management
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a relevant field of work
- Strong analytical skills in conducting due diligence to identify, assess and prioritize vendor risks
- Familiarity with information security frameworks (NIST, ISO27001), data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), and information security certifications/attestations (SOC, ISO, PCIDSS, FedRAMP)
- Experience in coordinating technical integrations for security tooling and processes.
- Ability to review complex systems architectures to identify key security integration opportunities
- Produce a comprehensive, written, security assessment of vendors security posture
- Experience using security analytics tooling to produce operational metrics and dashboards
- A strong understanding of the fundamental operations of servers, operating systems, cloud applications, and infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications
- Core skills in Cybersecurity fundamentals and Third Party Risk Management
- Familiarity with using Third Party Risk Management tools/processes such as OneTrust, SIG or similar GRC platforms.
- Hands-on experience in Azure, AWS Cloud environments and familiarity with core Cloud services and Cloud architecture
- Familiarity with core security concepts of Single Sign-on (e.g PingFed, SAML), Identity and Access Administration (Active Directory, Azure AD, AWS IAM), Event Management (Splunk),
- Expert skills in using Microsoft Office suite, JIRA.
Location
This role is hybrid, based in our Nashville office.
Compensation The annual base salary range for this position is as follows:
Nashville, TN - $87,000 - $104,000
This position is also eligible for benefits and a discretionary bonus. Ultimately, wages may vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.
Benefits
At CAA, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits* package for all regular full-time employees:
Benefits where the company pays 80%-100% of the cost include:
- Medical
- Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
- Telemedicine
- Employee assistance and mental health counseling in person, virtually or through text
- Paid Vacation / Holidays
- Paid Sick Time
- Paid Parental Leave and Other Paid Leaves of Absence
- NICU leave
- Bereavement resources
- Adoption Benefits
- Educational Assistance
- Mental Health Resources
- Employee Assistance Plan
Employees may also elect to participate in voluntary benefits:
- Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401K Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care)
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
Employee Perks:
- Commuter Benefits
Benefits offered also include other statutory mandated benefits
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Creative Artists Agency, LLC (the “Company”) is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate on the basis of race (inclusive of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, creed, gender or sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), national origin, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, family and medical care leave status, military or veteran status, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, political affiliation, an employee’s or their dependent’s reproductive health decision making (e.g., the decision to use or access a particular drug, device or medical service), or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
The absence of a permanent address is not a bar to employment. The Company does not discriminate against individuals based on housing status, including the absence of a fixed address.
The Company also complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws with regard to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.
CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
