Vice President, IT and Security

Job Description:

  • Lead and coach a high-performing Security & IT organization across five disciplines and seven direct reports.
  • Develop technical talent and succession depth across critical roles.
  • Shape the IT and Security organization for current execution and near-term scale.
  • Own the IT and Security budget and connect headcount and tooling spend to risk reduction.
  • Build a culture of clarity and ownership across two teams.
  • Set standards, SLAs, and runbooks for consistent execution.
  • Represent IT and Security in leadership discussions and translate operational risk for executives.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, DevOps, People Ops, and Finance on onboarding, offboarding, SaaS rollouts, migrations, and compliance.
  • Partner with Sales on customer security reviews.
  • Own incident response end to end: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review.
  • Build and tune detections against real adversary behavior.
  • Run on-call rotation, escalation paths, severity model, and incident runbooks.
  • Report honestly on security posture.
  • Own the Product Security program and embed security into the development lifecycle.
  • Run product vulnerability management and time-to-fix accountability.
  • Surface product risk with recommendations.
  • Set and execute strategy for endpoints, identity, and SaaS at scale, including MDM, patch compliance, hardware lifecycle, and zero-touch provisioning across macOS and Windows.
  • Own IAM provisioning, group design, MFA, and access reviews.
  • Own the company’s AI, SaaS, and cloud technology ecosystem, including collaboration, source control, and secrets management platforms.
  • Track KPIs for ticket responsiveness, patch and MDM coverage, access reviews, and IT spend.
  • Serve as a senior Automox power user and feedback channel to Product and Engineering.
  • Maintain SOC 2 through continuous evidence collection and control operation and own the audit relationship.
  • Maintain the risk register and vendor review process.

Requirements:

  • 8+ years managing people, including performance management, hiring, and developing engineers into stronger engineers.
  • 12+ years in security engineering or security operations, with hands-on detection engineering and incident response as a core part of that time.
  • Experience partnering with an engineering organization on product security, with results you can point to.
  • Direct IT operations responsibility, or a combined security and IT role.
  • A track record of turning strategy into execution with measurable outcomes.
  • Working knowledge of SOC 2 sufficient to keep an existing program healthy.
  • Detection engineering across endpoint, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry, including SIEM or equivalent log pipeline design.
  • Practical knowledge of adversary tradecraft and how it shows up in your data.
  • Application and cloud security fundamentals strong enough to review a design.
  • Experience with a modern identity provider, MDM for macOS and Windows, collaboration suite administration, source control administration, and cloud IAM.
  • Working Linux experience.
  • Working familiarity with PowerShell, bash, and Python.
  • Sound judgment reviewing AI-generated automation for correctness and security.
  • Sound judgment on architectural and tooling trade-offs.
  • Ability to balance longer-horizon planning against daily operational demand across two functions.
  • Clear and credible technical and executive communication.
  • Calm and decisive under incident pressure.
  • Must be able to pass a federal, state, county background check.
  • Complete a local in-person verification.
  • We are not able to sponsor work visas at this time.

Benefits:

  • Bonus
  • Equity for Full-Time Employees
  • 401K Match
  • Flexible PTO
  • Generous sick time policy
  • Comprehensive Health Plans with generous employer contributions
  • 100% Company-paid Short Term/Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
  • Company HSA Contribution: $100-$200 per month based on tier
  • $25 per month Lifestyle Spending Account
  • Internet Reimbursement - $50/month
  • $500 Home office stipend
  • $10k Adoption Benefit
  • Comprehensive Family Planning Covered on Meritian Medical Plan
  • Competitive Salary
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