Head of Security – Compliance

🕒 May 8

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Masabi

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

🚗 Transport

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-03

Transport • SaaS

Masabi is a company revolutionizing fare payments and public transportation systems through its Fare Payments-as-a-Service model. It offers the Justride Platform, an enterprise-ready, cloud-native solution designed to facilitate seamless integration with various transit networks. Masabi provides contactless ticketing solutions, enabling smooth, connected journeys while reducing costs for agencies and operators. By leveraging smart card, mobile ticketing, and open payment systems, Masabi enhances the passenger experience, fosters sustainable cities, and powers a connected transit ecosystem that emphasizes Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS).

📋 Description

• Take ownership of security and compliance across Masabi, creating clarity on priorities and ways of working • Build a clear view of our current security posture and define a practical path to strengthen it over time • Define security and compliance requirements and work closely with Engineering and IT teams to ensure they are implemented effectively • Maintain existing compliance across PCI DSS, ISO27001, SOC2 and Cyber Essentials, and lead new compliance initiatives across additional standards such as ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 • Manage audits end to end, from preparation through to delivery and follow-up actions • Work closely with Engineering and Product teams to embed security practices in a way that supports delivery • Maintain a clear and actionable view of risk, helping the business prioritise what matters most • Build a more scalable approach to customer assurance, including clearer processes and reusable materials for customer and audit requests • Help guide decisions on which compliance standards we take on as we grow • Lead and support a small team, creating focus, trust and shared direction

🎯 Requirements

• You’ve worked in security and compliance within a payments, fintech or PCI-regulated environment • You have strong, hands-on experience with PCI DSS, ISO27001 and SOC2, including preparing for and delivering audits • You’ve personally owned and delivered compliance programmes, not just overseen them • You understand how security and compliance connect, and how to make them work in practice across a business • You’ve operated in a growing or scaling company, where you’ve had to bring structure and prioritise effectively • You’re comfortable driving work across teams without direct authority, and following through to completion • You bring sound judgement when balancing risk, delivery and commercial needs • You’ve supported or led a small team and know how to create clarity and accountability • You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, helping people understand what matters and what action is needed

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year plus the Christmas Shutdown (another 3-4 days) • Premium medical care via Regina Maria • Mental health support • Menopause support • Regular social gatherings with a monthly allowance for each employee • Up to €1000 training budget per year • €200 to spend on your home office • Choice of workstation • Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world