Vice President, IT and Security

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

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a high-performing Security & IT organization across five distinct disciplines.

• Foster succession planning and enhance technical talent development.

• Design the IT and Security organization for current operations and near-term scaling.

• Manage the IT and Security budget, linking expenditures to risk mitigation.

• Cultivate a culture of transparency and accountability within two teams.

• Establish standards, service level agreements (SLAs), and operational runbooks.

• Represent both departments in leadership discussions, translating operational risks for executives.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, DevOps, People Ops, and Finance on onboarding, offboarding, SaaS implementations, migrations, and compliance efforts.

• Work alongside Sales on customer security assessments.

• Oversee end-to-end incident response: detection, triage, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident evaluations.

• Develop and refine detection mechanisms against adversary actions.

• Manage the on-call rotation, escalation processes, severity models, and incident runbooks.

• Provide honest assessments of security posture.

• Lead the Product Security program and integrate security throughout the development lifecycle.

• Oversee product vulnerability management and accountability for timely fixes.

• Identify product risks and provide actionable recommendations.

• Formulate and implement strategies for endpoints, identity, and SaaS at scale.

• Manage mobile device management (MDM), patch compliance, hardware lifecycle, zero-touch provisioning, and identity access management (IAM).

• Oversee the company’s AI, SaaS, and cloud technology ecosystem.

• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for ticket responsiveness, patch and MDM coverage, access reviews, and IT expenditures.

• Act as a senior Automox power user and provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams.

• Ensure continuous collection of SOC 2 evidence and operational controls.

• Manage the SOC 2 audit relationship.

• Maintain the risk register and vendor review processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in people management, including performance management, recruitment, and developing engineers into more skilled professionals.

• More than 12 years in security engineering or operations, with hands-on experience in detection engineering and incident response as a fundamental aspect of that time.

• Proven experience partnering with an engineering organization on product security, with demonstrable results.

• Direct responsibility for IT operations or a combined security and IT role.

• A history of converting strategy into actionable execution with quantifiable outcomes.

• Working knowledge of SOC 2 to maintain a healthy existing program.

• Experience in detection engineering across endpoints, identity, cloud, and SaaS telemetry, including designing SIEM or equivalent log pipelines.

• Practical understanding of adversary tactics and how they manifest in data.

• Fundamentals in application and cloud security.

• Familiarity with modern identity providers, MDM for macOS and Windows, collaboration suite administration, source control management, and cloud IAM.

• Practical experience with Linux.

• Basic knowledge of PowerShell, bash, and Python.

• Good judgment in evaluating AI-generated automation for accuracy and security.

• Sound decision-making on architectural and tooling trade-offs.

• Must successfully pass a federal, state, and county background check.

• Complete local in-person verification.

• We are currently unable to sponsor work visas.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus opportunities.

• Equity options for full-time employees.

• 401K matching contributions.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO).

• Generous sick leave policy.

• Comprehensive health plans with significant employer contributions.

• 100% company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability and life insurance.

• Company HSA contributions ranging from $100 to $200 per month based on the tier.

• $25 per month lifestyle spending account.

• Internet reimbursement of $50 per month.

• $500 home office stipend.

• $10,000 adoption benefit.

• Comprehensive family planning coverage under the Meritian Medical Plan.