Director of Cybersecurity

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 across product, infrastructure, and physical systems.

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 including cloud, identity, and aircraft.
• Lead threat modeling, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and security reviews.

Required qualifications

• 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 globally.