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Job Description

We are seeking a Vice President, Global Crisis Management to join State Street’s Enterprise Resiliency Office Team. The team’s primary mission is to oversee the bank’s global crisis management framework, as well as prepare for and manage crisis events across the entire organization. In this role, you will have a pivotal focus on orchestrating the development and execution of comprehensive crisis simulation exercises that bolster our operational and technological resilience. This role is crucial in maturing and strengthening our resilience posture by assuring effective crisis response and recovery strategies are in place, ensuring the bank can withstand and recover from a wide range of severe but plausible scenarios within stated impact tolerances.

In this vital role, you will collaborate closely with State Street's business, technology, and resiliency leaders to identify severe but plausible risks, work with subject matter experts to develop and execute realistic tabletop exercises with executive leadership around those risks, and lead the process of translating lessons learned into actionable improvements.

Primary Roles/Responsibilities:

• Spearhead comprehensive end-to-end planning, design, execution, and evaluation of crisis resiliency exercises, ensuring alignment to State Street’s operational resilience standards, impact tolerances, and global regulatory frameworks.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders throughout the bank to create customized, detailed, crisis exercises that meet specific objectives for all-hazards incident and crisis response, with a focus on severe but plausible threats that impact business, technology, and cyber resilience.
• Conduct thorough post-exercise analysis, synthesize corrective actions, manage tracking and monitoring of progress, and plan future simulations to confirm the efficacy of implemented improvements.
• Manage all aspects of crisis exercise project management across the engagement lifecycle, including scheduling exercises, booking venues, leading discussions with executive leadership, and updating senior leaders on project progress.
• Serve as a crisis manager when required, facilitating crisis management calls, publishing situation reports, and conducting after incident reviews.
• Maintain departmental policies, standards, procedures, and control portfolio.
• Execute incident management and regulatory reporting activities under the DORA regime.

Key Qualifications:

• Business continuity certifications such as CBCP, MBCP, or MBCI are preferred
• Exceptional expertise and substantial experience (10+ years) in planning, designing, and leading crisis exercises for an executive audience at large corporate, multinational financial institutions with a focus on severe but plausible scenarios, including: loss of vendor/counterparty, IT disaster recovery events, cyber incidents, geopolitical tensions, and pandemics, ensuring crisis response strategy and procedures become “muscle memory”, and are seamlessly integrated across the bank.
• Good knowledge of DORA requirements in the area of incident management and reporting.
• Executive presence - comfortable, confident and effective in interacting with all levels of senior and executive leadership, as well as industry regulators.
• Extensive knowledge around the operation of key international financial systems, an understanding of the current threat landscape, operational resilience and international regulatory considerations, and systemic risk scenarios.
• Outstanding organizational skills required to manage multiple, complex projects collaboratively with a diverse set of stakeholders, subject matter experts, and senior leaders, effectively building requirements and executing against objectives and key results.
• Exceptional writing skills, communication abilities, and expert-level proficiency in producing exercise decks in PowerPoint, and writing detailed after-action reviews. A background in metrics development, risk analysis & visualization is a plus.
• Hands-on experience leading crisis response calls at the executive level, business continuity, disaster recovery, and playbook creation.

Additional Requirements:

• Due to the nature of crisis events, occasional off-hours support may be required, including weekends and holidays, requiring flexibility and readiness to engage beyond standard working hours if required to support real-time crisis management activities.

Minimum Salary:

zł282,000 Annual

The minimum salary quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate ultimately works outside of this primary location, the applicable minimum salary may differ.

Salary will be determined based on factors such as the position, type of work performed, individual skills, job description, working hours, diligence, initiative, self-management, length of employment, availability, and the quantity and quality of work delivered, as well as other objective and non-discriminatory criteria relevant to State Street employees.

In addition to salary, employees are eligible to be considered for discretionary annual performance-based awards.

We Offer:

• Permanent contract from day one

• Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off)

• Gold Medical Package for employees and their families (partner and children)

• Premium life insurance package and private pension plan

• Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs

• Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice

• Variety of well-being programs

• Additional benefits available depending on the seniority of the role

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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