Deputy CISO

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

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Deepwatch

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201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏢 Enterprise

🔐 Security

Cybersecurity • Enterprise • Security

Deepwatch is a leading managed security platform for the cyber resilient enterprise. The company integrates detection and awareness technologies with effective responses to provide seamless enterprise protection. Deepwatch offers managed detection and response, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, and managed firewall services. With Deepwatch, companies can expect reduced false positives, improved security posture, and exceptional ROI. The platform combines cutting-edge software, industry-leading security technologies, and a dedicated expert team to ensure comprehensive protection across all fronts. Deepwatch positions itself as an extension of its clients' teams, offering services from advanced threat detection and response to personalized security programs tailored to each business's risk tolerance and resources.

📋 Description

• Serve as the CISO’s senior operating partner and second-in-command for the Information Security organization • Run the department day-to-day, including team meetings, leadership meetings, 1:1s, project reviews, status reporting, and executive updates • Lead, mentor, and develop security, IT, cloud, compliance, and risk team members • Build an accountable, execution-focused culture across the security organization • Represent the security organization with executives, customers, auditors, legal, privacy, engineering, product, IT, and business stakeholders • Provide the CISO visibility into department performance, project health, risks, blockers, resource needs, and key decisions • Develop and refine security strategy aligned with business goals, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices • Establish security outcomes, KPIs, dashboards, QBRs, and executive reporting • Drive maturity across vulnerability management, incident response, identity and access management, endpoint security, cloud security, MDR/SOC operations, GRC, IT operations, and security engineering • Drive projects from intake through completion with owners, deadlines, milestones, dependencies, decisions, risks, and next steps • Maintain project tracking, dashboards, Jira/Confluence hygiene, timelines, meeting notes, and executive summaries • Hold project owners accountable for commitments, updates, deadlines, and follow-through • Lead internal and external audit readiness, response, evidence collection, remediation, and compliance activities • Oversee SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 compliance programs and control frameworks • Partner with Legal, Privacy, Finance, IT, Engineering, Product, and business leaders on governance activities • Help run or mature the risk committee and ensure risks are identified, documented, prioritized, tracked, and remediated • Maintain policies, standards, procedures, and controls protecting company and customer data • Liaise with auditors, customers, regulators, vendors, and internal stakeholders • Lead incident response coordination, communication, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvement • Conduct and oversee risk assessments, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and security reviews • Guide secure cloud architecture and governance across AWS, Azure, GCP, or similar environments • Evaluate tools, vendors, services, and resourcing needs • Drive continuous improvement through automation, workflows, documentation, and accountability

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience across cybersecurity, IT, security operations, cloud security, compliance, risk, or related technical leadership roles • 5+ years of people leadership experience, including managing teams, leaders, 1:1s, performance expectations, and department operating rhythms • Proven ability to run a security department or major security program with minimal supervision • Strong hands-on understanding of security, IT, cloud, compliance, privacy, and risk operating models • Experience rebuilding or maturing a security program, including controls, processes, metrics, governance, and reporting • Demonstrated experience managing audits, compliance programs, evidence collection, control tracking, remediation, and executive communication • Strong project and program execution skills, including ownership of deadlines, dependencies, priorities, blockers, and cross-functional follow-through • Ability to communicate complex security and risk topics clearly to technical, non-technical, executive, customer, and board-level audiences • Experience partnering with Legal, Privacy, Product, Engineering, IT, Finance, Sales, Customer Success, and executive leadership • Strong judgment, discretion, urgency, ownership, and ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations • Experience with Jira, Confluence, dashboards, executive reporting, QBRs, and operational metrics • U.S. Person status as defined under ITAR: U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee admitted to the U.S., or person granted asylum by the U.S. government • Pass a pre-employment background check • Verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States upon hire • Preferred: experience in SaaS, cloud-first, managed security services, MDR, or technology-driven environments • Preferred: experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, NIST, GDPR, CCPA, and ISO 42001 • Preferred: experience with cloud security architecture and governance across AWS, Azure, or GCP • Preferred: familiarity with GRC platforms, ServiceNow, SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management platforms, identity platforms, and security operations tooling • Preferred: strong financial acumen, including budget planning, vendor management, resource planning, and headcount planning • Preferred: prior experience as a Deputy CISO, Director of Security, VP of Security, or Head of Security Operations

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Stock options • Medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance • Flexible Time Off (FTO) • 12 company holidays • Sick leave • 8-Weeks Paid Parental Leave • Unique professional development benefits with Annual “development dollars” • Wellness contests and monthly educational programs • 401(K) retirement program • Disability accommodations available on request • Remote work from a home office when not at a corporate office