Managing Director - OT Security

Job Posting End Date
11-11-2026
Please note the job posting will close on the day before the posting end date.
Job Summary
The Managing Director, OT Security provides senior leadership for the cybersecurity strategy, operating model, services, and risk outcomes protecting operational technology across AEP's Transmission, Distribution, and Generation fleet, including nuclear generation in coordination with the licensed nuclear cybersecurity program. The role leads a shared-services OT Security organization and aligns priorities, investment, talent, and delivery with business-unit operational needs, enterprise cybersecurity strategy, NERC CIP, NRC, and internal cybersecurity requirements, and the safety, reliability, and resilience expectations of critical infrastructure.
This leader must bring deep, practical understanding of the business of electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and how electricity systems are protected from cyber threats. The Managing Director is accountable for ensuring OT Security group can define security requirements, lead architecture and engineering efforts, validate security outcomes, prioritize vulnerability risk, integrate monitoring and detection, coordinate OT incident response and recovery, assess technology, maintain trusted Business Unit partnerships, and build missing OT security capabilities. The role operates through established enterprise authorities and leverages Enterprise Security capabilities rather than duplicating them.
Please note: This position is 100% onsite in either Columbus, OH or Austin, TX