Senior InfoSec Lead: Compliance & Risk Orchestrator

Orbital Witness; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbital is hiring a senior NYC-based InfoSec Lead to own security due diligence, compliance, and vendor risk end-to-end. The role focuses on bringing the function in-house, automating DDQs, and strengthening our compliance framework as we scale.

You'll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Legal to embed security requirements and ensure policy documentation stays current. Prior IC leadership and experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Significant senior in-house or scale-up InfoSec leadership experience.
• Experience owning due diligence, vendor reviews and compliance end-to-end.
• Strong understanding of cloud security; IT/SWE/DevOps background preferred.
• Proven track record of scaling due-diligence processes and automating DDQs.
• Working knowledge of privacy laws (GDPR/CCPA/US state) and cross-functional partnership.

Responsibilities

• Own our InfoSec strategy and roadmap; scale security and compliance.
• Own the risk program: identify, assess and remediate risks; maintain the risk register.
• Own third-party risk assurance and DDQ processes; drive client and vendor assessments.
• Maintain compliance certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2) and governance artifacts.
• Partner with Engineering, Product and Legal to embed security into product development.

Skills

InfoSec leadership

Vendor risk management

Cloud security

ISO 27001

SOC 2

Privacy law knowledge

Job description

Orbital is hiring a senior NYC-based InfoSec Lead to own security due diligence, compliance, and vendor risk end-to-end. The role focuses on bringing the function in-house, automating DDQs, and strengthening our compliance framework as we scale.

You'll collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Legal to embed security requirements and ensure policy documentation stays current. Prior IC leadership and experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 are highly valued.