CISO: Strategy, Security Leadership & IR

Decentralized Masters; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Catalyst Capital is hiring its first Chief Information Security Officer to own security across every brand in the group. You will set the strategy, build the program, and personally run the response when something goes wrong.

The role combines core CISO responsibilities—incident response, identity and access, vendor risk, phishing defense, policy and audit readiness—with an AI-driven security approach to map surfaces and build agentic systems that test, monitor and audit risk, while leading a

Qualifications

• Security leadership experience preferred.
• Ability to translate risk to non-technical leadership.
• Experience building or managing security programs.

Responsibilities

• Own security strategy, program and budget across multiple brands.
• Lead incident response end-to-end including coordination with external partners.
• Manage cloud and identity security, including access controls and baseline configurations.
• Assess third-party and vendor risk and ensure audits and attestations are in place.
• Define login protection standards and implement phishing defenses across platforms.
• Write and enforce security policies and prepare for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness.

Job description

Catalyst Capital is hiring its first Chief Information Security Officer to own security across every brand in the group. You will set the strategy, build the program, and personally run the response when something goes wrong.

The role combines core CISO responsibilities—incident response, identity and access, vendor risk, phishing defense, policy and audit readiness—with an AI-driven security approach to map surfaces and build agentic systems that test, monitor and audit risk, while leading a