Head of Information Security

The role

You will own company-wide information security and privacy strategy and lead a technical organization. You will focus on consequential risks and build engineering capabilities, controls, and operating models.

What you will do

• Set security and privacy strategy, risk posture, roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities.
• Identify and sequence the company's highest-consequence risks.
• Communicate material security and privacy risk to company leaders and partners.
• Lead a software security engineering team.
• Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management.
• Establish security architecture and practices for various systems.
• Lead threat modeling, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and security reviews.

Required qualifications

• Proven senior leadership experience in a highly technical, fast-paced organization.
• Experience operating at scale and leading security through rapid growth.
• Experience owning security strategy and hands-on execution across information security, product security, or security engineering.
• A software engineering foundation, including experience building production software, security systems, or technical controls.
• Technical depth across application, infrastructure, cloud, identity, data, and hardware security.
• Experience securing safety-critical or cyber-physical systems, such as embedded, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or industrial technology.
• Experience leading serious security incident response and assessing threats from sophisticated external attackers.
• Judgment balancing security, privacy, legal obligations, safety, engineering velocity, customer needs, and business objectives.

Benefits

• equity compensation
• overtime pay
• discretionary annual or performance bonuses
• sales incentives
• medical, dental and vision insurance
• paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world's largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine, and essential goods.