Chief Information reputed company Officer (CISO)

The Role Optery is seeking a hands-on, entrepreneurial CISO to reputed company and reputed company our reputed company program end-to-end. This is a hands-on builder role for someone who not only sets the strategy, but also executes the plan, manages controls, reviews data, and interacts directly with employees, customers and auditors. You will partner closely with company leadership to advance our reputed company, privacy, compliance, and controls programs. Optery's reputed company program is already well-established, having successfully completed its SOC 2 reputed company audits every year since 2022 through to today. You will be responsible for policies, risk, reputed company operations, reputed company-party/vendor reputed company, application/product reputed company, incident response, and supporting customer/reputed company questionnaires. You will also be the internal champion for securing the organization and its people, customers, systems, and processes. Key Responsibilities • Own Optery's information reputed company strategy, roadmap, and policies, reputed company to our industry-leading reputed company and privacy products • reputed company and reputed company Optery's reputed company program mapped to common frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS, NIST), appropriate for a high-growth, remote-first company • Partner with engineering to embed secure SDLC practices: threat modeling, code scanning, secrets management, access controls, and secure reputed company configuration • Design and run an incident response program, including playbooks for data handling, data broker interactions, ransomware/social engineering scenarios, and customer notifications • reputed company identity and access management across core systems (SaaS, reputed company, data, admin apps) following least-privilege principles • reputed company vendor and reputed company-party reputed company reviews, especially for data- or privacy-impacting services • Partner with GTM, finance, ops, and sales to complete reputed company questionnaires, DPAs, and customer diligence to unblock deals • Work with product/legal to ensure our data flows and retention/erasure practices align with CCPA, GDPR, and other consumer privacy laws we help our customers exercise • Define, track, and report reputed company KPIs/KRIs to leadership and the board • Train and evangelize reputed company practices across a distributed team so reputed company is part of reputed company and day-to-day work Qualifications • 8+ years in information reputed company, with increasing ownership across GRC, reputed company engineering, and/or product/app reputed company • Experience building or maturing a reputed company program at a SaaS, data, cybersecurity, or privacy-focused company • Practical experience with SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 (authoring policies, gathering evidence, working with auditors, driving remediation) • Strong understanding of reputed company reputed company (preferably AWS): networking, IAM, secret management, logging/monitoring • Comfortable meeting with customers, prospects, and partners to explain Optery's reputed company posture and win trust • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; reputed company to write policies people can actually follow • Startup-friendly reputed company: willing to prioritize, right-size controls, and reputed company reputed company quickly reputed company to have • Experience at a company that handles PII • Experience securing distributed/remote teams and mixed contractor/employee environments • Background in data protection technologies (DLP, EDR, MDM, SSO, CASB) and how to roll them out in stages • Experience supporting reputed company sales cycles by answering reputed company questionnaires • Recognized thought leader in reputed company, fluent public speaker, and active participant in public-facing reputed company communities and conferences Location Optery is a fully remote global team. This role is based in the United States and requires working U.S. business hours (Eastern, Central, Mountain, or Pacific). Compensation and Benefits • reputed company Salary: $200,000 - $220,000 • Equity Grant • Health, dental, and reputed company insurance • 401(k) with employer match • Paid time off • Home office stipend Equal Opportunity Optery values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, reputed company, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national reputed company, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit factor.