Chief Information Security Officer

An Educational Technology business is looking to hire their first CISO. This is an ideal role for someone similar to a Security Lead with a background in security engineering who is looking to make the step-up into a CISO role.

This is a fully remote role, with quarterly travel required for board meetings etc, paying up to 135k base with a 20% bonus.

The growth of the business is attributed to M&As, resulting in a variety of tech stacks, products and security maturity across the business. The CTO wants someone who can assess the security gaps and build and implement solutions to centrally correlate the level of security.

Due to the sensitive data they handle, security is essential for them to grow, thus this role is incredibly important to the CTO and the board. You will have support from both to grow and expand security as you see fit.

They have 3 security folks already in the team, who would report into you. After you've joined you would then hire another 2 people in the most essential areas you identify need improvement.

With this in mind, they need someone with the ability to get hands-on with CloudSec, AppSec and Security Risk. Someone that can get developers and the wider organisation to engage with security is what they want.

You will also manage the P&L and be responsible for communicating ROI to the PE firm that backs them. They are in their growth phase, so you'd be joining at a really exciting time to develop with the business.