Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) - Denver, CO, Washington DC (hybrid)

19 May 2024

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TITLE: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

LOCATION: Denver, CO, Washington DC (hybrid)

DURATION: 6 Months, Contract to possible direct hire

HOURLY/SALARY: To be discussed

HIERARCHY/REPORT TO: The Board

SIZE OF STAFF: 3 to start

SIZE OF COMPANY: under 300

About the Role

The company is looking for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to drive the vision and lead the team that will make our client an industry leader in information security and consumer data protection. This will involve building out our nascent security programs, working cross-functionally on policy, and stewarding the security roadmap. As a leader, you will continue building the security team and facilitate security-related work across the company. Your altitude will range from developing and presenting Board-level roadmaps to designing technical strategy that shifts our software development left on security. You will work closely with the Chief Technology Officer to whom this role reports.

About You

Leadership Ability
  • Relationship builder who relentlessly strives to foster trusting relationships and put others first to enable high-performing teams
  • Transformational leader who motivates through attitudes, beliefs, and values rather than via compliance, enabling highly autonomous security teams
  • Collaborator who thrives when working cross functionally to solve strategic problems across the business
  • Systems thinker who considers human and technical factors when planning and making decisions
  • Empath strongly motivated by a mission that creates positive outcomes for our world

Cross-Departmental Collaboration
  • Thoughtful communicator who can relate a potentially arcane subject to a Board member or an engineer alike (or basically anyone else!)
  • A cross functional nexus who understands the policy needs of legal, compliance, HR/P&C, and integrates those needs into the security programs
  • Adept at consulting with senior-level stakeholders across the company to identify risk areas, find security blind spots, and implement remediations

Expertise
  • You love learning. Whether at university/school, on the job, or in your free time – you put in the time & effort to develop your craft.
  • Develop novel processes and solutions by synthesizing industry knowledge, organizational context, and first principles thinking.
  • Build high performing and autonomous security teams that are technically competent and highly cohesive
  • Previous experience with both front line security and security program development at a senior level, and in the regulated financial services industry
  • Strong working knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to technology, data handling, security, and privacy in Financial Technology
  • Knowledge of and experience with incident and risk management
  • Knowledge of and experience with some or all of al the cornerstone security frameworks (NIST, AICPA SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO27XXX, CCPA, GDPR, etc.), technologies (SIEM, DLP, SOAR, Encryption, IDS/IPS, etc.) and regulatory guidance and expectations (FFIEC, GLBA, etc.)

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  • ID: #41148879
  • State: Colorado Denver 80201 Denver USA
  • City: Denver
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-05-19
  • Deadline: 2022-07-17
  • Category: Et cetera