Director, IT Security – Compliance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Maryland.

📋 Description

• Act as the organization's foremost security leader and trusted advisor, undertaking many responsibilities typically associated with a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) while collaborating with executive leadership on security strategy and implementation.

• Create, execute, and uphold practical, appropriately sized security policies, standards, and best practices in partnership with developers as stakeholders.

• Oversee relationships with external vendors, consultants, and auditors.

• Direct all Corporate IT functions that support a completely remote global workforce.

• Manage identity and access management, endpoint management, collaboration platforms, SaaS applications, and the employee technology lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, and provisioning.

• Develop scalable IT processes that enhance employee productivity and ensure business continuity, while driving ongoing improvements in IT service delivery and employee experience.

• Propel decisions related to infrastructure, including VPN strategy, password management, tooling platform consolidation, and certificate lifecycle automation.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering and Platform teams to eliminate technical barriers and enhance operational efficiency, focusing on CI/CD, automation, and cloud platform reliability.

• Identify chances to utilize AI and automation to reduce manual processes and operational burdens across the organization.

• Assess and implement AI-enabled tools that boost productivity, support operations, engineering workflows, security monitoring, and business processes.

• Establish governance and best practices for the responsible use of AI within the organization.

• Work alongside the COO and leadership team to manage IT, infrastructure, security, and cloud-related budgets, including expenditures on AI tools.

• Monitor and enhance spending across cloud providers, SaaS platforms, security tools, and technology vendors.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related area, or equivalent practical experience.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in IT, infrastructure, security, cloud operations, or platform engineering roles.

• More than 5 years of leadership experience managing technology functions and cross-functional initiatives.

• Proven experience in leading security and compliance programs (SOC 2 required), incident response activities, and risk management initiatives, applying a pragmatic, risk-based approach.

• Experience overseeing IT operations for distributed or remote-first organizations.

• Background in managing technology budgets, vendor relationships, and optimizing cloud spending.

• Excellent judgment and ease with ambiguity: you make decisions with incomplete information, address conflict directly and unemotionally, and accomplish tasks without requiring follow-up.

• Capability to balance strategic planning with practical technical execution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

• 401k with Company Match

• Health & Dependent Care FSA

• Unlimited PTO

• 11 Company Holidays

• Volunteer/Community Engagement Day

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Parental Leave

• Equity Grants

• Home internet Reimbursement