Join Optery as our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Are you a passionate and entrepreneurial cybersecurity leader looking to make a real impact? Optery, a leader in online privacy and data protection, is seeking a hands-on CISO to lead and evolve our end-to-end security program. This is more than just a strategic role; it's a builder role where you'll define the vision and execute the plan, manage controls, analyze data, and engage directly with employees, customers, and auditors.
As our CISO, you'll partner closely with company leadership to advance our security, privacy, compliance, and controls programs. You'll be the champion for securing our organization, its people, customers, systems, and processes.
We've already built a solid foundation, successfully completing SOC 2 security audits every year since 2022. Now, we need your expertise to take our security posture to the next level.
What You'll Do:
Own the Vision: Develop and maintain Optery's information security strategy, roadmap, and policies, aligned with our industry-leading security and privacy products.
Lead and Mature: Extend Optery's security program, mapping it to common frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, and NIST, tailored for a high-growth, remote-first environment.
Secure the SDLC: Collaborate with engineering to embed secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, code scanning, secrets management, access controls, and secure cloud configuration.
Incident Response Master: Design and run a comprehensive incident response program, complete with playbooks for data handling, data broker interactions, ransomware/social engineering scenarios, and customer notifications.
IAM Authority: Oversee identity and access management across core systems (SaaS, cloud, data, admin apps) following least-privilege principles.
Vendor Security Guardian: Lead vendor and third-party security reviews, especially for data- or privacy-impacting services.
Deal Enabler: Partner with GTM, finance, ops, and sales to complete security questionnaires, DPAs, and customer diligence to unblock deals.
Privacy Advocate: Work with product/legal to ensure our data flows and retention/erasure practices align with CCPA, GDPR, and other consumer privacy laws we help our customers exercise.
Metrics Maestro: Define, track, and report security KPIs/KRIs to leadership and the board.
Security Evangelist: Train and evangelize security practices across a distributed team, making security an integral part of onboarding and day-to-day work.
What You'll Bring:
Experience: 8+ years in information security, with increasing ownership across GRC, security engineering, and/or product/app security.
Industry Knowledge: Proven experience building or maturing a security program at a SaaS, data, cybersecurity, or privacy-focused company.
Compliance Expertise: Practical experience with SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 (authoring policies, gathering evidence, working with auditors, driving remediation).
Cloud Proficiency: Strong understanding of cloud security (preferably AWS): networking, IAM, secret management, logging/monitoring.
Communication Skills: Comfortable meeting with customers, prospects, and partners to explain Optery’s security posture and win trust. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to write policies people can actually follow.
Startup Mentality: Startup-friendly mindset: willing to prioritize, right-size controls, and make progress quickly.
Bonus Points:
Experience at a company that handles PII.
Experience securing distributed/remote teams and mixed contractor/employee environments.
Background in data protection technologies (DLP, EDR, MDM, SSO, CASB) and how to roll them out in stages.
Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles by answering security questionnaires.
Recognized thought leader in security, fluent public speaker, and active participant in public-facing security communities and conferences.
Location:
Optery is a fully remote global team. This role is based in the United States and requires working U.S. business hours (Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific).
Compensation and Benefits:
Base Salary: $200,000 - $220,000
Equity Grant
Health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) with employer match
Paid time off
Home office stipend
Equal Opportunity Employer:
Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit factor.