Director of Security – Compliance

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Director of Security & Compliance building and owning security programs for healthcare software company. Leading risk management and compliance as the senior-most security voice in the company.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $220,000 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and drive the company-wide security strategy and roadmap, balancing risk reduction with the speed of a Series C product organization.
Serve as the owner for HIPAA compliance and our ongoing HITRUST certification effort, implementing and operating the underlying controls.
Serve as the senior-most security voice in the company, advising executive leadership on risk posture, security investments, and tradeoffs.
Implement and operate technical security controls: vulnerability management, endpoint protection, logging and monitoring, detection and response.
Lead incident response, including playbook development, on-call structure, tabletop exercises, and post-incident reviews.
Build the security team over time, starting as a hands-on player-coach and hiring once the program scales.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in security, compliance, or information security, with at least 2–3 years as a senior leader or subject matter expert at a startup or growth-stage company.
Direct experience owning HIPAA, HITRUST, and/or SOC 2 compliance end to end — designing, implementing, operating, and auditing the relevant security controls and policies.
Experience leading incident response, from detection through remediation and postmortem.
Experience designing and implementing both technical and non-technical security controls: MDM, IAM, endpoint protection, access policies, vulnerability management.
Strong cross-functional communication: able to explain risk and compliance requirements to executives, work credibly alongside engineers, and represent our posture to enterprise customers and auditors.
Comfort operating as a player-coach — willing to be hands-on-keyboard while building the function.
Preferred: Track record of building security programs from early maturity: you've written the first policies, stood up the first tooling, and made pragmatic risk tradeoffs rather than inheriting a mature program.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation.
Opportunities for rapid career advancement in a growing company.
100% premium coverage for health insurance.
401(k) with no matching at this time.

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Hard Skills & Tools

security strategyrisk reductionHIPAA complianceHITRUST certificationvulnerability managementendpoint protectionlogging and monitoringdetection and responseincident responsesecurity controls

Soft Skills

cross-functional communicationleadershipadvising executiveshands-on coachingteam buildingrisk assessmentpolicy developmentcollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder engagement