Chief Information Security Officer

Zipline; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline seeks a Chief Information Security Officer to own the company-wide security and privacy strategy, leading a lean, technically focused security organization across product and corporate security. You will prioritize the most consequential risks, then build scalable engineering capabilities, controls, and operating models that scale with Zipline.

You will define and communicate a clear security strategy, align leaders around it, and remain hands-on in solving the most important problems

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in information security, product security, or security engineering at scale.
• Strong software engineering foundation with production security or controls experience.
• Proven ability to lead serious security incidents and assess threats from sophisticated attackers.
• Judgment balancing security, privacy, legal obligations, safety, velocity, and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Own company-wide security and privacy strategy across product, infrastructure, data, and operations.
• Lead a lean, technical security organization spanning product and corporate security.
• Identify top risks, set remediation priorities, and build scalable engineering controls.
• Advise executives and the board on material security and privacy risks with clear business tradeoffs.
• Lead threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response while measuring risk coverage and control effectiveness.

Skills

Leadership

Software security

Incident response

Risk management

Cyber-physical systems

Security strategy

Security governance

Technical depth

Job description

Responsibilities

• Zipline operates autonomous delivery systems spanning cloud services, customer and operational data, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure. Security must protect those systems, customers, partners, and the people who rely on them while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and quickly


• As Chief Information Security Officer, you will own company-wide security and privacy strategy and lead a lean, technical organization across product and corporate security


• You will first focus the company on its most consequential risks and remediation decisions, then build the engineering capabilities, controls, and operating model that scale with Zipline


• You can define and communicate a clear company-wide security strategy, align leaders around it, and remain hands‑on in solving the most important problems


• Set security and privacy strategy, risk posture, roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities across product, infrastructure, data, corporate technology, and physical systems


• Identify and sequence the company’s highest-consequence risks, driving clear remediation decisions with Engineering, IT, Legal, Safety, Operations, and Physical Security


• Advise executives and the board on material security and privacy risks, translating technical findings into business tradeoffs and investment decisions


• Lead a software security engineering team that contributes production fixes, reusable platforms, and controls that eliminate systemic vulnerability classes


• Establish security architecture and practices for identity, access control, secrets, data protection, applications, cloud infrastructure, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure


• Lead threat modeling, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and security reviews; measure risk coverage, remediation, readiness, control effectiveness, and secure‑engineering adoption

Qualifications

Leadership experience in information security, product security, or security engineering within a highly technical organization operating at scaleA software engineering foundation, including experience building production software, security systems, or technical controlsExperience leading serious security incident response and assessing threats from sophisticated external attackersJudgment balancing security, privacy, legal obligations, safety, engineering velocity, customer needs, and business objectives while working directly in a lean teamExperience securing safety‑critical or cyber‑physical systems, such as embedded, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or industrial technologyExperience as a CISO, VP of Security, or equivalent leader accountable for both security strategy and hands‑on executionTechnical depth across application, infrastructure, cloud, identity, data, and software security