Lead, Third-Party Security & AI Risk Automation

Circle; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Circle is seeking a Lead, Third Party Security to join our Security team in San Francisco. You will lead complex assessments across partners, vendors and third parties, and help build AI-enabled tooling and automated workflows to scale risk management globally.

You will collaborate with Legal, Procurement and engineering, translate security findings into actionable recommendations, and drive improvements in assessment methodologies and onboarding processes while communicating with senior leaders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, or compliance.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex security assessments and evaluate control effectiveness.
• Experience implementing AI-enabled tooling to improve security workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security assessments of partners, vendors, and third-party integrations with risk-based recommendations.
• Evolve program to dynamic, scalable, adaptive capability.
• Design and build AI-enabled tooling and automation for evidence analysis, risk identification, monitoring, scoring, and assessment workflows.
• Establish proactive monitoring of emerging security risks across Circle’s third party ecosystem.
• Collaborate with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement to define security requirements during onboarding and oversight.
• Communicate material third party security risks and gaps to technical and business stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve third party security methodologies and tooling.

Skills

Security leadership

Vendor security

Cloud security

API security

Identity management

Cryptography

Automation tooling

Communication skills

Tools

AI tooling

Automation scripting

Job description

Circle is seeking a Lead, Third Party Security to join our Security team in San Francisco. You will lead complex assessments across partners, vendors and third parties, and help build AI-enabled tooling and automated workflows to scale risk management globally.

You will collaborate with Legal, Procurement and engineering, translate security findings into actionable recommendations, and drive improvements in assessment methodologies and onboarding processes while communicating with senior leaders.