Industry: Enterprise SaaS, AI-Enabled Technology, Cloud Platforms, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Identity Security, Risk Management, and Digital Trust
Location: USA Remote
Compensation Package: $438K – $526K
About the Organization
We are a large, enterprise-scale SaaS, AI-enabled technology, cloud platform, cybersecurity, data protection, identity security, risk management, and digital trust organization supporting complex digital products, cloud-native platforms, enterprise customers, distributed teams, business-critical systems, sensitive data environments, and high-trust customer relationships across the United States. The company operates in a fast-moving technology environment where information security directly influences customer confidence, platform resilience, regulatory readiness, product credibility, enterprise risk posture, business continuity, and long-term market trust.
This is not a traditional security leadership role focused only on monitoring tools, managing incidents, or enforcing controls after decisions have already been made. The Chief Information Security Officer will serve as a strategic enterprise executive responsible for building and leading a modern security organization that protects the business while enabling growth, innovation, product delivery, customer trust, and operational speed. This role will connect cybersecurity strategy, governance, cloud security, identity and access management, product security, application security, data protection, security operations, privacy partnership, compliance readiness, vendor risk, incident response, and executive risk reporting into one integrated security model.
The company is continuing to invest in AI-enabled security monitoring, cloud security architecture, zero trust principles, identity governance, application security, secure software development, threat detection, vulnerability management, third-party risk, data classification, security automation, customer security assurance, compliance programs, and board-level cyber risk visibility. As the organization grows, leadership is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer who can bring executive presence, technical security depth, enterprise risk judgment, product security awareness, customer-facing credibility, and strong cross-functional leadership to a highly visible role.
The Chief Information Security Officer will lead security strategy across enterprise security, product security, cloud security, security operations, governance risk and compliance, incident response, data protection, identity security, application security, vendor risk, security awareness, and cyber resilience. This executive will work closely with the CEO, Board, CIO, CTO, CPO, COO, CFO, General Counsel, Privacy, Compliance, Product, Engineering, IT, Data Analytics, Customer Success, Sales, Procurement, and Executive Leadership to ensure security priorities support business growth and responsible innovation.
This role requires a leader who understands both cyber risk and business value. The ideal candidate will know how to strengthen security architecture, guide cloud and product security, support enterprise customer trust, improve security operations, manage cyber risk reporting, lead incident preparedness, support compliance readiness, advise executives, and build security practices that are practical, measurable, and scalable.
The selected candidate will help define how the company protects customers, systems, data, employees, and products at enterprise scale. This includes improving security governance, strengthening product security standards, enhancing threat detection, improving vulnerability management, supporting customer security reviews, building stronger identity controls, advancing secure development practices, and ensuring cybersecurity becomes a trusted business enabler rather than a disconnected control function.
This is a high-impact executive opportunity for a security leader who wants to advise the Board, shape enterprise cyber strategy, strengthen platform trust, guide secure innovation, and help a large technology-driven organization scale with confidence, resilience, and strong digital trust.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Lead the company’s enterprise information security strategy across cybersecurity governance, cloud security, product security, application security, security operations, data protection, identity security, incident response, risk management, and compliance partnership.
• Build and execute a multi-year security roadmap that supports customer trust, regulatory readiness, product resilience, enterprise risk reduction, secure growth, and operational scalability.
• Advise the CEO, Board, executive leadership team, and key stakeholders on cyber risk posture, security investments, threat trends, incident readiness, compliance expectations, customer trust, and enterprise risk priorities.
• Lead security governance, including risk frameworks, security policies, control standards, security committee routines, cyber risk reporting, remediation tracking, and executive-level accountability.
• Oversee security operations, including monitoring, detection, incident triage, investigation support, threat intelligence, response procedures, escalation paths, and post-incident improvement.
• Lead cloud security strategy across infrastructure, workloads, access controls, network security, configuration management, logging, monitoring, encryption, cloud posture management, and security automation.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to strengthen product security, secure software development, application security testing, threat modeling, code review practices, vulnerability remediation, and release readiness.
• Lead identity and access management strategy, including privileged access, access reviews, SSO, MFA, role-based access, joiner-mover-leaver processes, service accounts, and identity governance.
• Oversee vulnerability management, penetration testing, remediation prioritization, patch governance, risk acceptance workflows, attack surface management, and executive reporting on exposure trends.
• Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance teams on data protection, regulatory readiness, customer security commitments, privacy-by-design practices, third-party reviews, and audit support.
• Support customer trust and revenue enablement by guiding security questionnaires, customer audits, enterprise security reviews, contract security terms, and customer-facing security discussions.
• Manage third-party and vendor security risk, including supplier assessments, security requirements, vendor controls, risk exceptions, remediation follow-up, and procurement partnership.
• Lead security awareness and culture programs that improve employee behavior, phishing resilience, secure data handling, incident reporting, and security accountability across the company.
• Build, mentor, and lead security teams while creating a culture of integrity, resilience, practical risk management, technical excellence, business partnership, and continuous improvement.
Job Qualifications and Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Risk Management, or a related field required.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or advanced education in cybersecurity, technology leadership, risk management, enterprise systems, or business administration strongly preferred.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, CRISC, GIAC, ISO 27001, AWS Security, Azure Security, or similar credentials strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, security operations, cloud security, product security, application security, IT risk, GRC, incident response, or enterprise technology risk management.
• 8+ years of senior leadership experience managing security teams, security programs, GRC functions, product security teams, cloud security programs, or enterprise cyber risk functions.
• Experience within enterprise SaaS, AI-enabled technology, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare technology, data platforms, digital products, or large distributed enterprise environments strongly preferred.
• Proven success building security programs, advising executives, improving security posture, supporting enterprise customers, leading incident response, strengthening cloud security, and scaling security governance.
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, CIS Controls, CSA, PCI, HIPAA where applicable, GDPR, CCPA, and secure software development practices.
• Experience with cloud environments, identity systems, endpoint security, SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management, DLP, EDR, CSPM, CNAPP, IAM, DevSecOps, and security automation tools.
• Familiarity with platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Okta, Azure AD, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Lacework, Splunk, Datadog, ServiceNow, Jira, Snyk, Veracode, Tenable, Qualys, or similar systems preferred.
• Strong business and financial acumen with experience prioritizing security investments, evaluating risk tradeoffs, supporting customer growth, managing security budgets, and communicating risk in business terms.
• Experience working directly with CEOs, Boards, CIOs, CTOs, CPOs, CFOs, General Counsel, Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Sales, Customer Success, Procurement, and external auditors.
• Excellent executive communication, cyber risk reporting, stakeholder management, incident leadership, team development, technical judgment, and strategic decision-making skills.
Personal Capabilities and Qualifications
• Strategic security executive with the ability to connect cybersecurity, customer trust, product resilience, data protection, regulatory readiness, and business growth.
• Strong executive presence with the confidence to advise the CEO, Board, and senior leadership team on cyber risk, security priorities, incident readiness, investment decisions, and customer trust.
• Technically credible with strong understanding of cloud security, application security, product security, identity security, security operations, and modern threat environments.
• Business-minded and practical, with the ability to reduce risk while enabling product delivery, customer success, revenue growth, and digital innovation.
• Customer-trust oriented, with the ability to support enterprise security reviews, explain security posture, build confidence with customers, and align security practices with market expectations.
• Data-driven and risk-based, with the ability to use threat intelligence, control maturity, vulnerability trends, audit findings, incident data, and security metrics to guide decisions.
• Calm and decisive under pressure, especially during cyber incidents, executive escalations, customer audits, security findings, regulatory issues, or public-facing trust concerns.
• Collaborative and able to align Security, IT, Engineering, Product, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Procurement, Data Analytics, and Executive Leadership around shared security priorities.
• Strong people leader who can build high-performing security teams, develop technical talent, improve accountability, and create a culture of security ownership across the company.
• High integrity and discretion when handling sensitive security findings, customer data, incident information, vulnerabilities, access controls, legal matters, board materials, and confidential business plans.
Strategic Support
The Chief Information Security Officer will provide strategic leadership by ensuring the organization’s cybersecurity program protects customer trust, strengthens digital resilience, supports enterprise growth, and enables secure innovation.
This role will help leadership make better decisions about cyber risk, cloud security, product security, data protection, identity governance, customer security commitments, regulatory readiness, vendor risk, security investments, incident preparedness, and enterprise trust. The CISO will ensure security is not managed as a reactive control function, but as an enterprise capability that supports confident growth and responsible technology delivery.
Key areas of strategic support may include:
• Enterprise cybersecurity strategy and multi-year security roadmap development.
• Board and executive cyber risk reporting.
• Cloud security architecture and posture management.
• Product security and secure development lifecycle governance.
• Application security, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
• Security operations, threat detection, and incident response readiness.
• Identity and access management strategy.
• Data protection, privacy partnership, and security compliance support.
• Customer security assurance and enterprise trust programs.
• Third-party risk and vendor security oversight.
• Security policies, standards, and control governance.
• Security awareness and workforce cyber culture.
• Audit readiness, SOC 2 support, ISO readiness, and regulatory alignment.
• Security budget planning, investment prioritization, and team development.
The Chief Information Security Officer will help ensure the organization has the security maturity, resilience, customer trust, and cyber risk discipline required to scale responsibly.
Working Conditions
• Location: USA Remote.
• Primarily remote executive leadership environment with regular security reviews, executive risk sessions, customer security discussions, incident readiness meetings, product security reviews, audit preparation sessions, and board-level reporting.
• Flexibility required during cyber incidents, vulnerability escalations, customer security reviews, audit deadlines, regulatory matters, product launches, security investigations, or urgent executive decisions.
• Occasional travel may be required for Board meetings, leadership offsites, customer security reviews, security conferences, incident response exercises, vendor reviews, company gatherings, or strategic planning sessions.
• Regular collaboration with the CEO, Board, CIO, CTO, CPO, COO, CFO, General Counsel, Privacy, Compliance, Product, Engineering, IT, Sales, Customer Success, Procurement, Data Analytics, vendors, auditors, and Executive Leadership.
• Fast-paced enterprise technology environment with high visibility around cybersecurity posture, customer trust, product security, data protection, regulatory readiness, and operational resilience.
• Role requires handling confidential security findings, incident data, customer security materials, vulnerability information, access control data, audit evidence, legal-sensitive matters, and board-level cyber risk reporting with discretion.
Job Function
• Executive Cybersecurity Leadership
• Information Security Strategy
• Cyber Risk Management
• Cloud Security
• Product Security
• Application Security
• Security Operations
• Incident Response
• Identity and Access Management
• Data Protection
• Governance Risk and Compliance
• Vendor Security Risk
• Customer Security Assurance
• Board Cyber Risk Reporting
• Security Program Transformation
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation Package: $438K – $526K
The total compensation package may include base salary, executive performance bonus, cybersecurity performance incentives, risk reduction incentives, long-term incentives, equity participation where applicable, and additional executive-level benefits depending on experience, qualifications, and final role alignment.
Benefits may include:
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Executive performance bonus eligibility.
• Cybersecurity performance and risk management incentive opportunities.
• Long-term incentive opportunities.
• Equity or ownership-aligned compensation where applicable.
• Retirement savings plan with company contribution.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• USA remote work flexibility.
• CEO, Board, and executive leadership visibility.
• Executive coaching, cybersecurity leadership development, and professional growth support.
• Support for advanced cybersecurity certifications, cloud security education, AI security training, privacy education, secure development programs, risk management, and executive leadership development.
• Wellness, employee assistance, and work-life support programs.
• Access to modern security operations, cloud security, identity, GRC, vulnerability management, endpoint, observability, collaboration, and enterprise technology platforms.
Why Join Us
This is an opportunity to join a large technology-driven organization where cybersecurity leadership directly influences customer trust, product resilience, enterprise risk, regulatory readiness, and long-term business value.
The Chief Information Security Officer will have the authority and visibility to shape cyber strategy, advise the Board, strengthen cloud and product security, improve incident readiness, support enterprise customer trust, and build a scalable security organization for a remote-first enterprise.
You will work in an environment that values digital trust, practical security, business partnership, technical excellence, data-driven decisions, and responsible innovation. The company is investing in AI-enabled security monitoring, cloud security, product security, identity governance, customer trust programs, secure development, automation, and enterprise cyber resilience.
For a senior security executive who enjoys protecting customers, advising leadership, building strong teams, and turning cybersecurity strategy into measurable enterprise value, this role offers the scope, influence, and leadership platform to make a major impact.