Senior Third-Party Security Lead | AI-Driven Risk (Remote)

Circle; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Circle, a leading internet finance platform, is seeking a Lead, Third Party Security to strengthen risk management across our global partner ecosystem. You will oversee complex assessments, drive automation, and embed security into onboarding and ongoing oversight.

You will collaborate with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to translate findings into pragmatic recommendations and scalable processes, reducing manual effort while increasing assessment quality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity/tech risk experience including vendor security assessments.
• Ability to lead complex assessments beyond questionnaires.
• Technical depth in cloud security, API security, IAM, cryptography.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security assessments of partners and vendors and translate findings into risk-based recommendations.
• Evolve third party security program toward dynamic, scalable capability.
• Design and build AI-enabled tooling and automation for evidence analysis and risk workflows.
• Establish proactive monitoring to identify evolving security risks across Circle's ecosystem.
• Communicate risks and findings clearly to technical and business leaders.

Skills

Security risk assessment

Security automation

AI/GenAI tooling

Vendor security

Communication with stakeholders

Job description

Circle, a leading internet finance platform, is seeking a Lead, Third Party Security to strengthen risk management across our global partner ecosystem. You will oversee complex assessments, drive automation, and embed security into onboarding and ongoing oversight.

You will collaborate with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to translate findings into pragmatic recommendations and scalable processes, reducing manual effort while increasing assessment quality.