Head of Security
Core
Own security end-to-end for a global payments and marketplace platform serving beauty, wellness, and self-care businesses, including strategy, controls, incident response, and threat intelligence.
Role type
Head of Security (Strategic IC with team leadership)
Builds
Security strategy, controls, incident response capabilities, and threat intelligence data warehouse for a regulated payments ecosystem.
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Cybersecurity
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Security strategy formulation, incident response leadership, vulnerability management, threat modeling, threat intelligence, security automation, regulatory compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2), cloud security, identity security, supply chain security, executive communication, technical depth in modern attack surfaces.
Preferred skills
Payments/PCI environment experience, offensive security background, track record of reducing manual security work via automation, LLM/AI tooling expertise.
Technologies
Cloud, SaaS, Identity, Supply Chain, Application, LLMs, AI tools, Security tooling.
Responsibilities
Shape security strategy and roadmap with the VP, deploy and validate security controls across the estate, run penetration testing and vulnerability management programs, own incident response processes and post-mortems, build threat intelligence and threat modeling capabilities, lead security training and awareness, provide security advisory for architecture and vendor assessments.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership