Lead Analyst, Third Party Security

🕒 September 24

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $140k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Fintech • Crypto • Web 3

Circle is a financial technology company that focuses on utilizing blockchain technology to enable seamless, faster and secure transactions. Their main product, USDC, is a stablecoin designed to provide stability by being fully reserved and redeemable 1:1 for US dollars, and is widely used in global transactions to facilitate cross-border payments, crypto capital markets, and global dollar access. Circle offers an open developer platform that allows businesses to integrate blockchain functionalities such as programmable wallets and smart contracts into their applications. The company is committed to transparency and publishes regular reports on their reserve holdings.

📋 Description

• Lead complex technical security assessments of partners, vendors, and third-party integrations • Translate assessment findings into pragmatic, risk-based recommendations • Evolve the third-party security assessment program from document-centric reviews toward a dynamic, scalable, continuously adaptive capability • Design and build AI-enabled tooling and automation for evidence analysis, risk identification, monitoring, scoring, and assessment workflows • Establish proactive monitoring to identify and prioritize emerging security risks across Circle’s third-party ecosystem • Partner with Security Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and business teams to define and apply security requirements during third-party onboarding and ongoing oversight • Communicate material third-party security risks, control gaps, and recommendations to technical stakeholders, business partners, and senior leaders • Improve third-party security methodologies, standards, tooling, and processes while increasing assessment quality and reducing manual effort

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, technology risk, or compliance, including meaningful experience with third party or vendor security assessments • Ability to independently lead complex security assessments and evaluate control effectiveness beyond questionnaire or compliance-based reviews • Technical depth across cloud security, API security, network architecture, identity and access management, and cryptography • Hands-on experience using AI, GenAI, automation, or internally developed tooling to improve security, risk, or compliance workflows • Experience modernizing security, risk, or compliance programs through automation, improved methodologies, or process redesign • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to translate complex security risks into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences • Preferred: experience in financial services, fintech, digital assets, or another highly regulated industry • Preferred: familiarity with DORA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or relevant regulatory guidance • Preferred: familiarity with blockchain and digital asset technologies, including crypto-native vendors, wallets, smart contracts, or decentralized infrastructure

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Inclusive workplace • Interview accommodations or assistance for candidates with disabilities

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