Director of Information Security
Catalant’s technology platform and programs enable companies to get mission critical work done faster. Forward-looking executives partner with Catalant to transition to an agile operating model and access the skills and expertise they need to rapidly innovate and stay ahead of disruption.
More than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 use Catalant’s best practices and platform to frictionlessly access and deploy talent, ranging from employees to over 50,000 independent consultants and 1,000 boutique firms in Catalant’s Expert Marketplace. Anonymized data from leading companies train Catalant’s AI-powered skills matching and recommendation engine, inform its best practices, and surface intelligent insights that get smarter over time.
Our investors include General Catalyst, Highland Capital, and Greylock Partners. We're on a mission to build the absolute best team, and are looking for talented, scrappy, fun, and competitive folks to redefine the way work gets done!
Catalant is looking for a Director of Information Security to mature our existing information security program. The information security team works side-by-side with all teams at Catalant - Product and Engineering, DevOps, Legal, Finance, Sales, etc. to help ensure safety and security, but also ensuring that our security posture exceeds industry and customer expectations. The ideal candidate is pragmatic, they have a deep understanding of security, privacy, compliance and business. This candidate will need to get their hands dirty, but also needs experience in building and scaling security teams.
What you’ll do
- Formulate, mature and manage a comprehensive strategy that protects us from cyber security threats
- Evangelize security best practices and business unit security ownership across the organization to identify and mitigate security incidents, compliance issues, application/infrastructure vulnerabilities, identity and access management, etc.
- Assist sales in responding to customer’s security, compliance and privacy related inquiries
- Advise the Legal department regarding customer and third party vendor contractual security requirements
- Lead and coordinate investigations and respond to information security incidents
- Maintain the existing compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, privacy regulations, etc.)
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years experience working in a security management role
- Demonstrated skills in collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving to achieve goals
- Strong hands-on technology skills for configuring and managing cloud software tools such as firewalls, IDS systems, security scanning infrastructure, log analysis tools, etc.
- Experience growing teams of information security professionals through both rigorous hiring as well as mentoring
What we offer
- An agile team that is always looking to improve and to effectively meet the needs of the business.
- The ability to have impact every day, the ability to learn and be creative
- A career growth path