Senior Director, Enterprise Security
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly.
Affirm values security as being crucial to the company’s continued success. Our mission is to cultivate a culture of security at Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products.
The Affirm Security Team is seeking an experienced enterprise security leader who will be essential to Affirm technology, data, systems and employees success. The leader of enterprise security will strategically influence how Affirm secures our enterprise in balance with the usability needs of our employee base. A successful candidate will be able to balance constantly evolving tactical needs with implementing critical initiatives with the help of our cross-functional partners. The Senior Director, Enterprise Security is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and reporting on cybersecurity risk to information assets, while supporting and advancing business objectives.
What You'll Do
- Proactively work with risk management teams and cross-functional engineering partners to implement and maintain secure technology.
- Partner with other areas of security and engineering to drive remediation of findings and ensure regulatory/audit compliance
- Drive critical initiatives in support of risk reduction and maintain security standards and guidelines.
- Engage with internal business and technology teams for security design consulting, reviews, and testing. Identify vulnerabilities and propose both tactical and strategic improvements
- Develop and lead core information security programs including: incident response, security operations, platform security and IT security.
- Perform security assessment on tools, business applications and infrastructures including threat models, risk analysis, vulnerability assessments, design reviews, and penetration tests.
What We Look For
- In-depth understanding of information security management frameworks, including PCI, GDPR, CPAA, CIS, NIST, Cloud Security Alliance, or other frameworks.
- Exhibit a high level of personal integrity and the ability to expertly handle confidential matters with an appropriate level of calmness, judgment and maturity.
- A strategic leader and builder, able to energize internal and cross functional teams.
- Sound understanding of business management and a working knowledge of cybersecurity technologies
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines
- Experience communicating information security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels, ranging from board members to technical specialists.
- Proven track record and experience in developing information security policies and procedures, as well as successfully carry out programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic business environment.
Location - Remote U.S.
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If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2020 DEI Report.
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