VP of Security & Trust for AI-Driven Growth

Greenhouse; United States; Remote; USD 279,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Disability coverage

13 holidays per year

Sick leave (up to 80 hours)

Job summary

Greenhouse is seeking a Vice President, Security to lead company-wide security strategy and execution across product, corporate, and information security. Reporting to the CTO, you will guide the Security team and advise the Board as we scale our data platform and AI-enabled product capabilities.

You will build a strong leadership bench, manage budgets, and oversee compliance (SOC 1/2, ISO 27001/27701, ISO 42001).

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in security, including 5+ years leading a multidisciplinary security organization.
• Experience serving as a Head of Security, CISO, Vice President of Security, or comparable senior security leader.
• Experience owning an end-to-end security program and scaling a security organization through significant growth at a B2B SaaS or consumer technology company, ideally with exposure to both, including strategy, budget, and headcount planning.
• Experience across security operations, cloud security, product security, identity and access management, risk, compliance, and incident response.
• Experience leading serious security incidents in partnership with Legal, communications, executives, customers, and regulators.
• Experience working with external auditors and leading compliance and assurance programs such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Experience presenting security posture, material risks, investment needs, and trade-offs to executive leadership and a Board.
• Experience securing cloud environments such as AWS and Kubernetes, and working with modern identity standards and platforms including Okta, OpenID Connect, or SAML.
• Experience with AI security, AI governance, responsible AI, or securing AI-enabled products.
• Experience with ISO 42001, ISO 27701, GDPR, the EU AI Act, HR technology, or products handling sensitive personal data, a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Greenhouse’s security strategy, multi-year roadmap, operating model, budget, and investment priorities.
• Lead a multidisciplinary security organization spanning product security, corporate security, and information security. Build it to be AI-native, using automation and agentic workflows to scale assessments, triage, investigations, and compliance evidence.
• Build and develop a strong leadership bench, including hiring, coaching, succession planning, and career development.
• Own Greenhouse’s security risk posture, including enterprise, third-party, and vendor risk, and risk acceptance decisions. Set risk appetite with the ELT and oversee compliance and assurance programs, including SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and ISO 42001.
• Lead security response for serious incidents, from detection and triage through executive, customer, regulatory, and post-incident communications.
• Own annual disaster recovery exercises with Platform Engineering and regulatory notification timelines.
• Establish governance for how AI is used across Greenhouse, by our people and in our product, including acceptable-use policies and standards, data handling, access boundaries, human oversight, and auditability.
• Lead Greenhouse’s data security and governance program, including data classification, access controls, data loss prevention, and data residency, in partnership with Privacy and Legal.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Finance on secure-by-default design, identity, and customer commitments.
• Advise Sales and Customer Success on strategic security reviews and enterprise deals, and join customer trust conversations with CISOs and CTOs as needed.
• Represent Greenhouse security with the Board, customers, prospects, partners, auditors, and industry audiences.
• Lead security due diligence and integration for mergers and acquisitions.

Job description

Greenhouse is seeking a Vice President, Security to lead company-wide security strategy and execution across product, corporate, and information security. Reporting to the CTO, you will guide the Security team and advise the Board as we scale our data platform and AI-enabled product capabilities.

You will build a strong leadership bench, manage budgets, and oversee compliance (SOC 1/2, ISO 27001/27701, ISO 42001).