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Head of Human Risk & Critical Asset Protection
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
The Opportunity
We are advancing a Human Risk & Critical Asset Protection (HRCAP) capability to strengthen how the enterprise understands and safeguards its most important information assets. This role will define the strategy, operating model, and execution roadmap for HRCAP, establishing a durable framework that identifies, maps, and prioritizes critical assets and translates that understanding into risk-informed protection across the enterprise.
The Head of Human Risk & Critical Asset Protection will partner with business units, enterprise architecture, analytics, and technology teams to create a shared understanding of critical assets that inform protection priorities, monitoring strategy, and executive decision-making. This role will shape how the organization aligns cybersecurity investments with the assets that drive enterprise value.
The Team
The HRCAP organization is a multidisciplinary function focused on critical asset visibility and risk prioritization. The team operates at the intersection of cybersecurity, business operations, and enterprise data ecosystems.
Key team capabilities include:
- Identification and classification of critical business assets.
- Enterprise data location mapping across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and endpoints.
- Access mapping and human interaction analysis.
- Business process data flow modeling.
- Risk prioritization and protection requirement definition.
- Executive reporting on critical data exposure and risk posture.
The Head of HRCAP will recruit and lead senior practitioners capable of working across technical and business domains, establishing a culture of analytical rigor, enterprise partnership, and accountability.
The Impact
The HRCAP function elevates how the enterprise protects its most valuable assets by anchoring cybersecurity decisions to trusted asset intelligence.
The Head of HRCAP will:
- Establish a strategy and enterprise framework for critical asset visibility.
- Create authoritative insight into critical asset exposure.
- Enable precision tuning of monitoring and detection capabilities.
- Strengthen insider threat and workforce risk initiatives.
- Inform architecture, analytics, and investment priorities.
- Improve executive understanding of cyber risk impact.
- Accelerate incident impact assessment and response clarity.
- Align cybersecurity strategy with business value.
The impact extends beyond cybersecurity. HRCAP provides foundational insight that benefits enterprise architecture, data analytics, infrastructure planning, and business operations, creating outsized return on investment.
The Minimum Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity, data security, enterprise architecture, or risk leadership.
- Demonstrated experience designing and executing large-scale strategic programs.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
- Deep understanding of enterprise data ecosystems and risk modeling.
- Ability to translate complex technical environments into business impact.
- Proven cross-functional leadership with business and technology stakeholders.
- Strong executive communication and influence skills.
- Experience developing long-term strategy and operational execution plans.
- High professional judgment and organizational leadership capability.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience establishing enterprise data protection or crown-jewel programs.
- Background in data security architecture or information protection.
- Familiarity with asset discovery, classification, or protection technologies.
- Experience in highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of privacy and data handling frameworks.
- Advanced degree in cybersecurity, information systems, or business.
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, CDLP, or equivalent).
- Experience briefing senior leadership or boards on cyber risk.
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Salary Range: $189,900-$249,200
Hiring Process
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By the numbers*
- 85% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say the work they do at MassMutual is meaningful - 85% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things
*Source: 2025 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
Explore some of our offerings below. Benefit details can be found here.
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