Junior Cybersecurity Analyst - Richmond

Agency Cybersecurity; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 42,981,000 - 57,308,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10 days PTO

11 holidays

401(k) with 4% match

Monthly healthcare stipend

Gym membership stipend

Weekly team lunches

Job summary

Agency Cybersecurity is hiring for an entry-level, on-site role in Richmond, VA. You will work under senior analysts to serve clients, manage accounts, and support cybersecurity and compliance projects while learning the field from the ground up.

No cybersecurity background is required, but you should show strong written communication, resilience, and curiosity. You'll have opportunities to pursue certifications as you grow with the team.

Qualifications

• Entry-level role; no cybersecurity background required.
• Excellent written communication and client-facing skills.
• Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to learn.
• Strong personal standards and resilience under pressure.
• Desire to pursue certifications and grow in cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

• Work directly under senior analysts and learn how a high-growth cybersecurity team operates.
• Deliver exceptional service to our business clients and their key contacts.
• Manage accounts and connect client needs with internal teams.
• Support projects across cybersecurity, compliance, IT, and business operations.
• Learn the field and earn industry-recognized certifications along the way.

Skills

Follow-through

Written communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Curiosity

High standards

Resilience

Job description

About Agency Cybersecurity

Agency Cybersecurity is fast growing venture-backed startup that provides best-in-class cybersecurity and compliance. Our software and services simplify complex compliance frameworks including SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and others, empowering businesses to scale securely and confidently. We're backed by top tier investors like Y Combinator and have offices in NYC, Boston, Richmond, and London.

About Agency Cybersecurity

Agency Cybersecurity is fast growing venture-backed startup that provides best-in-class cybersecurity and compliance. Our software and services simplify complex compliance frameworks including SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and others, empowering businesses to scale securely and confidently. We're backed by top tier investors like Y Combinator and have offices in NYC, Boston, Richmond, and London.

Position

Hourly, full-time, on-site in our Richmond office

Experience level

Entry-level — no cybersecurity background required

Schedule

Mandatory overtime; average ~45 hours/week

Compensation

$15 - $20 per hour, plus overtime

Read this before you apply

This is one of the most competitive entry-level roles in our industry, and one of the most demanding. The interview process is rigorous. The job itself is more so. We're looking for people who want to be pushed — in their learning, in their work ethic, and in what it means to be part of a championship-caliber team.

If you make it through and stay, the trajectory is real. Analysts who put in 3+ years in this role routinely move into full Cybersecurity Analyst positions with the certifications, client exposure, and operational fluency that take most people a decade to build elsewhere.

If "challenging work, high standards, and a steep curve" reads as a warning, this isn't the role for you. If it reads as what you've been looking for, keep going.

What You'll Actually Do

• Working directly under senior analysts and getting unfiltered exposure to how a high-growth cybersecurity team operates
• Delivering exceptional service to our business clients and their key contacts
• Managing accounts and acting as the connective tissue between client needs and internal teams
• Supporting projects across cybersecurity, compliance, IT, and business operations
• Learning the field from the ground up and earning industry-recognized certifications along the way

No cybersecurity experience required.

What We Look For

• Relentless follow-through. You finish what you start. When something falls through the cracks, it doesn't fall through yours.
• Sharp written communication. You can write clearly under pressure — to a client, a teammate, or an auditor — and you understand that in this job, your writing is your work.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can operate when the answer isn't in a manual. You ask good questions, take a position, and move.
• Intellectual curiosity. You actually enjoy learning hard, technical material. You'd rather understand something deeply than fake your way through it.
• High personal standards. You hold the bar yourself before anyone else has to hold it for you.
• Resilience. Long days, hard feedback, and the occasional bad week don't break you. You recover and keep going.

If you played a varsity sport, led a team, served in the military, finished a demanding degree, started something, or built something nobody asked you to build — tell us. We read all of that as signal. Claims about who you are matter less to us than evidence of who you've been when it was hard.

Benefits

• 10 days of paid time off
• 11 paid federal holidays
• 401(k) with 4% company match
• Monthly healthcare stipend
• Gym membership stipend
• Weekly team lunches and in-office snacks