On-Site Cybersecurity Lead — Govt & Compliance

Menlo Ventures; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Parental leave

Generous time off

Income protection

Retirement savings

Water fund

Professional development

Safety Support-

Captain training

Office perks

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Arc is seeking a leadership-focused Information Security professional to drive compliance readiness and robust security across government and export-control requirements. You will partner across engineering and business teams to implement practical controls, monitor threats, and strengthen identity, cloud, data, and endpoint defenses from our Los Angeles headquarters.

The role emphasizes independent work, high-impact risk prioritization, and clear communication.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of information security experience spanning technical, operational, governance, risk, and compliance responsibilities.
• Experience supporting government security requirements, audits, or formal compliance programs.
• Strong working knowledge of identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security, data protection, vulnerability management, and security monitoring.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize high-impact risks, implement practical and pragmatic controls, and communicate clearly across engineering and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Leading compliance readiness and ongoing security practices for government and export-control requirements, including CMMC, ITAR, NIST SP 800-171, and related contractual obligations
• Developing deep defenses against phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover with tools like employee training, simulations, email security controls, reporting, investigation, and response
• Establishing risk assessments, audit evidence, and practical controls across the organization
• Strengthening identity, endpoint, data, cloud, infrastructure, application, and vendor security through hands-on reviews and remediation
• Monitoring security events, coordinating incident response, managing vulnerabilities, and communicating priorities to technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Skills

Information security

Government security requirements

Identity and access management

Cloud security

Vulnerability management

Cross-team communication

Tools

AWS

GCP

TypeScript

Python

Job description

Arc is seeking a leadership-focused Information Security professional to drive compliance readiness and robust security across government and export-control requirements. You will partner across engineering and business teams to implement practical controls, monitor threats, and strengthen identity, cloud, data, and endpoint defenses from our Los Angeles headquarters.

The role emphasizes independent work, high-impact risk prioritization, and clear communication.