Ashby

Head of Security

Ashby

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: California • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $250,000 - $320,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • I’m seeking a knowledgeable, collaborative, and creative leader to scale our security program and build out our security team.
  • This leader will report directly to me.
  • You’ll inherit a competent security program and scale this program through our next phase of high growth.
  • This includes building the Security team from scratch (which means you’ll be a hands-on security generalist to start).
  • By the end of the year, you’ll have defined our security strategy and roadmap, and added people (1-3 individuals), processes, and automation to scale yourself out of routine work.
  • Collaborate with other departments to solve interesting security challenges concerning sensitive information and PII.
  • Lead and grow a culture of security awareness among over 250 people today and more than 500 people by the end of the year.

Requirements

  • Most importantly, I’m looking for someone who is collaborative and approaches security from a first-principles perspective.
  • In past companies, we’ve worked with security teams that blindly follow industry norms and standards, or view their job as reducing risk to zero, both at the expense of velocity and innovation in other departments.
  • Instead, you view Security’s goal as identifying risk and collaborating with other departments to determine when it makes sense to mitigate and when it makes sense to compromise.
  • You don’t throw problems over the fence; instead, you help steer departments toward the right decision for the business.
  • Secondly, I am looking for someone who is capable of building high-quality, scalable processes.
  • You should be able to zoom out from hands-on work to realize when you need to shift to building a process or playbook.
  • You should also be technically proficient enough to identify opportunities for automation rather than always relying on people to solve the problem.
  • Finally, I’m looking for someone who is an excellent communicator.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 10-year exercise window for stock options. You shouldn’t feel pressure to purchase stock options if you leave Ashby —do it when you feel financially comfortable.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • A minimum of 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, covered by Ashby. For folks outside the US, it may be longer to be in line with regional requirements.
  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget. Get what you need to be happy and productive!
  • $100/month education budget with more expensive items (like conferences) covered with manager approval.
  • If you’re in the US, we offer top-tier health insurance for you and your dependents, with 100% of premiums covered by Ashby. In other countries, we provide high-quality supplemental health insurance for you and your dependents, also fully covered by us.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
security program managementsecurity strategy developmentrisk assessmentprocess automationsecurity awareness traininghands-on security generalistscalable process buildingfirst-principles approachcollaborative problem solvingtechnical proficiency
Soft skills
collaborationleadershipcreativitycommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilitystrategic thinkingculture buildingdecision-making