Bentley Systems
Director, Corporate Crisis & Risk Readiness
Exton, Pennsylvania, United States · Director · Full-time
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About the role
- In this role your days will be diverse and engaging, and we're looking for someone with range and interest in working strategically as well as tactically.
Responsibilities
- Lead Bentley's corporate crisis readiness and enterprise risk practices considering strategic business priorities and regulatory and governance requirements to safeguard company, colleagues, and communities.
- Identify, build, and maintain corporate crisis enablement tools and resources to equip executives and functional teams to make the best decisions in the most high-pressure situations.
- Work with business and functional owners to identify enterprise risks and to develop practical action plans that reduce likelihood, impact, or response complexity of these scenarios.
- Design, build, and facilitate multi-tier crisis simulations that test leadership judgment, decision-making, governance, communications, escalation, and cross-functional coordination to build muscle memory and confidence.
- Identify, build, and maintain crisis signal scanning and response tools such as AI agents and alert platforms to ensure Bentley can respond to prevent or mitigate crisis based on early warning signals.
- Partner closely with teams in Legal, Compliance, IT, Finance, HR, Marketing, Facilities, and Investor Relations to identify, implement, and support best practice outcomes in the risk and crisis areas.
- Identify and maintain relationships and budgets with appropriate consultants and vendors to ensure Bentley is immediately able to get the right support for a defensible approach when needed.
- Advise on and support ongoing incidents that may not rise to "corporate crisis" status, but have complex, corporate-level implications.
- Bentley is looking for a Director, Corporate Crisis & Risk Readiness to own oversight and execution of Bentley's corporate crisis and enterprise risk management practices.
- Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world's infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, risk management, public relations, legal studies, security, business continuity, or a related field, or relevant training and/or experience.
- At least 2 years of experience working in risk and/or crisis response at a technology company.
- Experience working in a publicly-traded company and strong understanding of SEC rules and regulations.
- Demonstrated ability to translate strategic concepts in corporate crisis and risk into operational materials such as playbooks, frameworks, templates, decision tools, escalation models, governance processes, etc.
- Experience operating in highly matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
- Strong business judgment and ability to balance risk management with commercial objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex issues into clear, practical, executive-ready materials.
- Proven ability to remain objective under pressure, and experience supporting others in navigating sensitive issues logically.
- 6-8 years of relevant experience in crisis management, corporate resilience, enterprise risk, business continuity, or related, including experience managing crisis response, tabletop exercises, business continuity planning, and/or enterprise risk mitigation.
- Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple workstreams, vendors, timelines, deliverables, and stakeholders.
- Strong systems thinking: comfort connecting dots and identifying implications to support effective decision-making considering market/regulatory dynamics, media and investor behavior, customer drivers, and other stakeholder priorities.
- Experience or interest building and maintaining AI-enabled monitoring, threat intelligence, social listening, media monitoring, incident management platforms, emergency notification tools, or similar technologies.
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Nice to have
- Experience navigating crisis and risk implications at a global company preferred.
Compensation
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
Benefits
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
- A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
- Promote a culture of preparedness, disciplined escalation, psychological safety, learning, and continuous improvement.
Company info
- Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company.
- We provide innovative software to advance the world's infrastructure - sustaining both the global economy and environment.
- Bentley Systems' 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
- Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities.
- Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent's software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations.
- Equal Opportunity Employer:
- Bentley is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, religion, national origin, age, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.
- This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, compensation, and training.
- Know Your Rights as an applicant under the law.
- Bentley Policy on EEO, Affirmative Action and Pay Transparency Non-Discrimination
- Bentley participates in e-Verify / Bentley participate in e-Verify / Right to Work Notice
- Request an Accommodation:
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Bentley is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
- We encourage you to request a reasonable accommodation if you are not able to fully use or access our online application system.
- You can make an accommodation request by calling 610-458-5000 or sending us an email at disabilityrequest@bentley.com
Equal opportunity
- Employer:
- Bentley is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, religion, national origin, age, genetic information or any other protected characteristic. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, compensation, and training. Know Your Rights as an applicant under the law.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Bentley is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. We encourage you to request a reasonable accommodation if you are not able to fully use or access our online application system. You can make an accommodation request by calling 610-458-5000 or sending us an email at disabilityrequest@bentley.com
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