Head of Security

The role

You will define and drive the security strategy across the entire organization, including corporate IT, cloud, application, and incident response. You will build and lead the security function by hiring and developing a team while personally executing technical work.

What you will do

• Own and evolve security strategy and roadmap across cloud, infrastructure, application, supply-chain, identity, and operational security.
• Build and lead the security function by hiring and developing the team.
• Provide oversight of the IT function.
• Execute critical security work including threat modeling, architecture review, control implementation, and incident command.
• Set the governance architecture and security framework.
• Own incident response end to end, including runbooks, command, and market communication.
• Build and run a counterparty security program for curators and partners.
• Lead Morpho's certification strategy such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Represent Morpho's security posture externally and internally.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Protocol, and Integrations.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in security.
• Several years building or leading a security function, ideally at a crypto/web3, fintech, or financial-services company.
• Strong grasp of the crypto/web3 threat model.
• Proven experience building and growing a security team from a small base.
• Deep, hands-on technical expertise across cloud, infrastructure, CI/CD, supply-chain, identity, and application security.
• Owned incident response end to end, including incident command and external communication.
• Sharp prioritization and ability to galvanize action through hard and soft influence.
• Exceptional, organized, responsive communication.
• Humble.

Nice to have

• An established network and public profile in the security or crypto-security community.
• Offensive security depth, or experience standing up red/blue capabilities.
• Familiarity with institutional and regulatory expectations and threat-sharing networks.
• Taken an organization through certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent).

Benefits

• Fair, top-tier compensation
• Real flexibility
• Time together in Paris
• Great health coverage
• Support to keep learning

About the company

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by several investors including a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures. It aims to build an open credit network to provide access to capital globally.