Chief Information Security & IT Leader

Yieldstreet; New York (NY); On-site; USD 215,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health, dental & vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Unlimited PTO

Life insurance

Job summary

Willow Wealth is seeking a Head of Information Security & IT to lead our security and IT functions from our New York City office, reporting to the General Counsel. You will own cyber risk, systems, vendors, and how security posture is communicated to the board.

This hands-on leadership role starts by guiding our IT team and managed security providers, building out both functions as we grow, and collaborating with Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and the executive team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; CISSP or CISM preferred.
• 7+ years in information security/IT, with leadership in regulated finance.
• Experience reporting security posture to a board or executive committee.
• Hands-on cloud, identity, endpoint, and data loss prevention experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the security program, policies, and cyber risk; stay exam- and audit-ready under SEC and FINRA (S-P, S-ID).
• Report security posture to the board quarterly and leadership monthly.
• Lead incident response end-to-end, including legal/compliance notifications.
• Oversee vulnerability management with remediation SLAs by severity.
• Set IT strategy, standards, and budget for IT/AV across NY and abroad.
• Collaborate with Engineering on application security and vendor security reviews.
• Manage IT and security stacks, vendors, contracts, and renewals.
• Oversee core platforms: AWS, Azure, 365; maintain identity and Zero Trust controls.

Skills

Security leadership

Incident response

Vulnerability management

Cloud security

AWS

Azure

Zero Trust

Board reporting

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

CISSP

CISM

Cloud security certification

Tools

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft 365

Job description

Willow Wealth is seeking a Head of Information Security & IT to lead our security and IT functions from our New York City office, reporting to the General Counsel. You will own cyber risk, systems, vendors, and how security posture is communicated to the board.

This hands-on leadership role starts by guiding our IT team and managed security providers, building out both functions as we grow, and collaborating with Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and the executive team.