Head of Information Security

The Head of Information Security serves as the process owner of all assurance activities related to the availability, integrity and confidentiality of customer, business partner, employee, and business information in compliance with the organization's information security policies. A key element of this role is working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program

  • Work with the software development team to manage risks

  • Develop an information security management framework

  • Develop an IT audit and compliance framework

  • Develop a Security Awareness Training program for employees

  • Interact with different parts of the company to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems, and services

  • Lead the company's information security and IT compliance group

  • Partner with business stakeholders to raise awareness of risk management concerns

  • Assist with the overall business technology planning, providing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems

Requirements

  • Degree in business administration or a technology-related field

  • Information security management certification

  • At least six years of experience in risk management, information security, and IT jobs

  • Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as NIST's Cybersecurity Framework

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Ability to work asynchronously

  • High level of personal integrity

  • Familiarity with modern software development practices such as agile software development

  • Experience with Cloud computing

Ready to apply?

If you are interested in this position, please send the following to careers+infosec@bloom.solutions:

  • CV / resumé

  • Samples of written content (blog, article, essay, rant, Twitter thread). If nothing is available, take the opportunity to use that email as your writing sample. Some questions you can answer in that email (credit goes to Stripe for these questions):

    • What projects have you enjoyed working on the most?

    • Which have you disliked?

    • What motivates you?

Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!