Head of Security Engineering

The role

The Head of Security will define and own the security engineering strategy and lead the security engineering team. This person will manage identity and access, security monitoring, incident response, and cloud security architecture.

What you will do

• Define and own the strategy for security engineering
• Hire, mentor, and grow the security engineering team
• Lead identity and access management across systems
• Direct security monitoring, detection, and incident response
• Own security posture for AI in products and internal tools
• Manage cloud security architecture and guardrails
• Own vulnerability management end to end
• Partner with compliance function to support SOC2, PCI, and other audit and regulatory work

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in security
• 2+ years in a leadership role
• Hands-on software or security engineering background
• Experience building and running cloud security, identity and access, and detection systems
• Prior experience working in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, payments, etc.)
• Track record of setting security strategy and driving it to execution at an early- or growth-stage company
• Strong communicator and collaborator

Nice to have

• strong understanding of how AI/ML systems work and where they introduce risk

About the company

January personalizes interactions and optimizes decisions across every stage of consumer credit. They use AI to make financial moments more human and are moving upstream to catch people before they default.