VP of IT and Cybersecurity

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Tidal Financial Group

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💸 Finance

Consulting • Marketing • Finance

Tidal Financial Group is a leading ETF investment and technology platform that specializes in managing exchange-traded funds (ETFs). With over 193 funds and $30 billion in assets under management, Tidal partners with various issuers to help clients successfully launch, manage, and grow their ETFs. The company offers a full suite of services, including strategy planning, regulatory compliance, portfolio management, and marketing, positioning itself as a premier choice in the ETF industry.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop the IT and Cyber teams; set goals, expectations, and performance standards • Design and evolve the IT and Cybersecurity organization, including workforce planning, leadership development, succession planning, and strategic partners • Establish decision rights and accountability across managers, internal teams, MSPs, and MSSPs • Establish a weekly operating rhythm covering intake, prioritization, escalations, metrics review, and leadership updates • Build a culture of customer service, documentation, ownership, and continuous improvement • Own IT service management processes, including ticket triage, SLAs, escalation paths, and end-user communications • Ensure stable operation of Microsoft 365, identity, endpoint management, collaboration, file services, and key SaaS applications • Drive standardization of onboarding/offboarding, device lifecycle, patching, and asset management • Define and own multi-year IT and cybersecurity strategy, target maturity, control framework, operating model, priorities, and investment roadmap • Establish security policies and standards for endpoint protection, identity and access, monitoring, vulnerability management, data protection, and incident response • Enforce least privilege, RBAC, and zero-trust practices • Lead technology and cybersecurity decisions during material incidents; maintain runbooks, coordinate tabletop exercises, and conduct post-incident reviews • Maintain SOC 2, vendor due diligence, and regulatory control evidence; close control gaps and manage risk exceptions • Ensure third-party risk processes are followed for vendors and renewals • Own departmental budget, workforce plan, vendor portfolio, and sourcing strategy • Manage vendors, MSPs, and security service providers; drive accountability for outcomes, deliverables, and SLAs • Lead forecasting, renewals, licensing optimization, and procurement with Operations and Finance • Advise executive leadership on technology risk, resilience, incidents, investments, and risk acceptance • Represent IT and Cybersecurity in executive, audit, board, client, and strategic partner discussions • Translate strategy into quarterly operating plans and provide decision-grade reporting on performance, incidents, risks, investments, and roadmap progress

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years in IT operations, cybersecurity, infrastructure, identity, or related technology leadership roles with progressively broader scope • 5+ years leading teams and leaders, preferably across both internal teams and strategic service providers • Demonstrated ownership of departmental strategy, budgets, organizational design, executive risk decisions, and material technology or cybersecurity incidents • Strong experience with Microsoft 365/Entra ID, endpoint management (e.g., JumpCloud/Rippling/MDM), identity standards (SSO/SAML/OIDC/SCIM), and SaaS administration • Working knowledge of modern security controls: endpoint protection, vulnerability management, logging/monitoring, IAM governance, and incident response • Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly to non-technical stakeholders and executives • Preferred: Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar assurance programs • Preferred: Familiarity with financial services operational risk and vendor due diligence • Preferred: Experience managing MSP/MSSP relationships