Job Title: Standards Trainer
Department: EducationEngagement
Location: North America or Europe
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Status: Exempt

SUMMARY

Reporting directly to the PCI Security Standards Council’s Director of Training Programs, you will play a key role in the development and delivery of PCI training materials, throughout the full range of our training, from PCI Awareness to the training offerings across all PCI SSC standards. You will understand and teach the intent of the Council’s standards to information security professionals, using your industry and information security experience to share the applicability of the PCI requirements, as well as insights into compliance assessment work. You will help shape and improve the future development of the Council’s training materials.

STRONG PREFERENCE GIVEN TO APPLICANTS WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

• Professional fluency in Spanish, including strong writing and speaking skills and the ability to deliver training and instructional support.
• Knowledge of point-to-point encryption (P2PE) implementations, methodologies, and other techniques for the protection of cardholder account data.
• Knowledge of PCI PIN security standards and Key Management techniques used to protect PIN data.
• Card Production Assessor experience with either physical or logical security requirements.
• Knowledge of cryptographic key management methodologies for the protection of payment card data for payment transaction processing, with emphasis on cardholder authentication data and HSMs.
• Knowledge and understanding of EMVCo technologies.
• Experience of creating effective training content for online Learning Management Systems, hands on experience with online authoring tools or learning management systems (LMS).

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN THIS ROLE:

• Work with the Director of Training Programs, other PCI SSC staff, and PCI Community stakeholders to develop and maintain training material.
• Conduct training courses, in-person and online, on behalf of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC). Courses are intended to educate assessors, merchants, and acquirers as well as other interested parties regarding the intent and application of the PCI standards and their corresponding PCI program frameworks.
• Assist in development of content as assigned, that will be used within PCI training courses and will contribute to the design and development of the technical training curriculum for both in-person and online classes.
• Liaise with applicable Working Groups to help define the prerequisite skills and knowledge for trainees within each PCI SSC program and the Continuing Education credits required for recertification.
• Ensure that training courses include content to address the needs of all potential course candidates from inexperienced Knowledge Training candidates through veteran employees within the Information Security and payments industry.
• Review and analyze course evaluations to determine the effectiveness of training sessions.
• Implement revisions to course materials as necessary to improve training effectiveness.
• Keep informed of, and maintain proficiency with information security best practices, current PCI standards, and cryptographic and tokenization practices.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THIS ROLE:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) with a minimum of 7+ years of hands-on security assessment, technical training, and/or PCI DSS experience.
• One or more industry related certifications (such as QSA, ISA, PCIP, CISSP, CISA, CISM)
• Project Lead for a PCI DSS or other PCI related compliance or validation effort.
• Strong understanding of information systems and networking; experience assessing the security infrastructure for large, complex environments.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present both technical and non-technical concepts to audiences with a diverse understanding of information security.
• Strong working knowledge of the financial services industry and the lifecycle of payment card transactions, audit methodologies and security assessment tools.
• Experience and knowledge of software development methodologies and practices.
• Blend of curiosity, creativity, persistence, commitment, passion and optimism, as well as flexible, proactive, quick to learn and possessing a can-do attitude.
• Active listener and the ability to contribute to a team environment required.
• Experience with penetration testing and/or vulnerability scanning.
• Strong organization and time-management skills.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of a team.
• Experience with productivity tools (such as Microsoft Office) and ability to develop effective presentation materials.
• Willingness to travel 30% or more.

THE STARTING MINIMUM SALARY FOR THIS ROLE IS $120,000 USD ANNUALLY, PLUS BONUS. THE FINAL COMPENSATION WILL BE BASED ON SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, AND OTHER RELEVANT FACTORS.

To learn more about the PCI Security Standards Council, visit https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
PCI SSC is an Equal Opportunity Employer