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We are the leaders in digital manufacturing. We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds. We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do. It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.Â
Join our team as an Information Security Manager!
This is a fixed hybrid (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) role based out of HQ in Maple Plain, MN.
Join Protolabs as our Information Security Manager and play a pivotal role in protecting the digital backbone of a global leader in digital manufacturing. In this highly visible role, you will shape and lead our worldwide security operations and compliance strategy across cloud, IT, and advanced manufacturing environments.
You’ll own and evolve our security operations, governance, risk, and compliance programs—ensuring we meet and exceed key regulatory, industry, and customer requirements, including ITAR, SOX ITGC, PCI DSS, GDPR, and DoD frameworks such as NIST SP 800‑171 and CMMC Level 2.
As a trusted security leader, you will partner across engineering, IT, product, and business teams to strengthen operational maturity, guide incident response, oversee audits, and continuously enhance Protolabs’ security posture. This is an opportunity to drive meaningful transformation, lead at a global scale, and influence how a cutting‑edge manufacturing organization securely innovates.
What you'll do:
• Lead global security operations, including SOC oversight, SIEM/SOAR tuning, threat detection, and incident response.
• Serve as incident commander for security events and drive end‑to‑end investigation, containment, and remediation.
• Direct vulnerability management across IT, cloud, and OT environments with SLA‑based remediation.
• Manage endpoint, network, and cloud security technologies (EDR/EPP, DLP, CASB, WAF, segmentation).
• Strengthen plant‑floor and OT security in partnership with manufacturing teams.
• Oversee compliance programs for NIST 800‑53/800‑171, SOX ITGC, PCI DSS, ITAR, and CMMC Level 2.
• Lead readiness assessments, audits, evidence management, and remediation tracking.
• Maintain security policies, standards, and procedures aligned with regulatory and customer requirements.
• Manage third‑party risk assessments and ongoing vendor compliance monitoring.
• Lead security governance and risk assessments; track mitigation and communicate risk posture to leadership.
• Ensure adherence to export control requirements, including ITAR and foreign‑person access controls.
• Manage and mentor a global security operations and compliance team.
• Build multi‑year security roadmaps and budgets aligned to company strategy.
• Collaborate across IT, OT, Engineering, Legal, HR, Finance, and other teams on key initiatives.
• Support security and compliance due diligence for M&A activities.
• Drive global security training and awareness programs, including annual and role‑based training.
What it takes:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience across security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and GRC.
• Experience in regulated environments including ITAR, SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, and DoD compliance requirements.
• Strong working knowledge of security frameworks: NIST 800‑53/800‑171, CIS Controls, ISO 27001.
• Experience with cloud security (Azure/AWS), identity security, PAM, segmentation, and DLP.
• Outstanding analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience managing global security programs across complex hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management platforms, GRC tools, and identity platforms.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, CRISC, CISA, ISO 27001 are preferred.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead incident response activities and guide teams through high‑pressure situations.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
What's in it for you!
• We offer a competitive total compensation package
• In addition, we offer competitive benefits including but not limited to:
• Health Insurance: Traditional OR High Deductible plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account (including employer contributions)
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid caregiver leave
• You will receive PTO + Holiday Pay + Wellness Hours + Volunteer Hours
• 401k with company match and immediate vest
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with a 15% discount
• And More!
Proto Labs maintains ITAR-compliant operations in all of our United States based facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.
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Proto Labs, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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Physical Demands:
While performing the essential duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use a computer keyboard, monitor and mouse, telephone and printer; reach with hands, and arms, talk, see and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop or kneel and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Work Environment:
Indoors (A/C); nonsmoking; the majority of this job function is performed in an office setting requiring normal safety precautions. However, there may be job duties that require the employee to spend time in the manufacturing areas exposed to machinery and noise; eye protection occasionally required. Occasionally works in outside weather conditions. Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.