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Salary: USD 279,200 - 342,000 / annual
Greenhouse, a B2B SaaS hiring platform, is seeking a Vice President of Security to lead company-wide security strategy and execution across product security, corporate security, and information security. Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer, this role will lead the Security team and create trust by protecting candidate and employee data. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team and R&D Leadership Team, you'll advise executive leadership and the Board on security posture, risk, and investments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and own Greenhouse's security strategy, multi-year roadmap, operating model, budget, and investment priorities
- Lead a multidisciplinary security organization spanning product security, corporate security, and information security, building it to be AI-native with automation and agentic workflows
- Build and develop a strong leadership bench through hiring, coaching, succession planning, and career development
- Own Greenhouse's security risk posture, including enterprise, third-party, and vendor risk, and oversee compliance and assurance programs (SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 42001)
- Lead security response for serious incidents from detection through executive, customer, regulatory, and post-incident communications
- Own annual disaster recovery exercises with Platform Engineering and regulatory notification timelines
- Establish governance for how AI is used across Greenhouse, including acceptable-use policies, data handling, access boundaries, and auditability
- Lead Greenhouse's data security and governance program in partnership with Privacy and Legal
- Partner with Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Finance on secure-by-default design and customer commitments
- Advise Sales and Customer Success on strategic security reviews and enterprise deals
- Represent Greenhouse security with the Board, customers, prospects, partners, auditors, and industry audiences
- Lead security due diligence and integration for mergers and acquisitions
The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on leader who sets direction for an entire security organization while engaging deeply with technical details. You move with urgency, develop managers and directors, bring clarity under pressure, and see security as a competitive advantage. You're skilled at translating complex security risks into clear recommendations for executives and the Board.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of experience in security, including 5+ years leading a multidisciplinary security organization
- Experience serving as Head of Security, CISO, Vice President of Security, or comparable senior security leader
- Experience owning an end-to-end security program and scaling a security organization through significant growth at a B2B SaaS or consumer technology company, including strategy, budget, and headcount planning
- Experience across security operations, cloud security, product security, identity and access management, risk, compliance, and incident response
- Experience leading serious security incidents in partnership with Legal, communications, executives, customers, and regulators
- Experience working with external auditors and leading compliance and assurance programs such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001
- Experience presenting security posture, material risks, investment needs, and trade-offs to executive leadership and a Board
- Experience securing cloud environments such as AWS and Kubernetes, and working with modern identity standards including Okta, OpenID Connect, or SAML
- Experience with AI security, AI governance, responsible AI, or securing AI-enabled products
- Experience with ISO 42001, ISO 27701, GDPR, EU AI Act, HR technology, or products handling sensitive personal data is a plus
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
