Our client, an established, growing company is seeking a Vice President of Information Security to join the team. This is a new role and has potential for growth. They are looking for a true hands-on leader and who will be responsible for all of our business' information security, risk, and compliance activities. This role reports directly to the companies President, with visibility and accountability to the executive leadership team as well as our customers. You will be constantly collaborating with the larger technology organization, with separation in reporting to uphold proper compliance and separation of concerns.

Responsibilities include partnering with the technology and operations teams to ensure data breach prevention, development and implementation of security best practices, and appropriate metrics for assessment. Corporate responsibilities focus on a broad understanding of business requirements, compliance against key regulatory standards, risk assessments, training of staff, and advocating with customers. You will also oversee security incident response planning and participates in the investigation of security breaches.

Skills:

• 5+ years of leadership experience in information technology security in a high-growth startup or consulting environment.
• Experience with practical security in cloud environments a strong plus.
• Proven leadership across the organization ranging from planning, project management and budgeting to activities expounding the value of information security
• Strong experience leading risk and compliance initiatives for technology products that hold highly sensitive and/or regulated data
• Experience in consulting with business and technology leaders including discovery, solutions definition, analysis and evaluation, executive presentations, facilitation, documentation, implementation, business process modeling, change management.
• Knowledge of current technical security and data breach prevention protocols and standards including all IT security, data breach, and regulatory compliance, legal requirements, industry regulations, and best practices.

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