Full-Time
Director of Finance
Posted on 10/31/2025
Optery
51-200 employees
Personal data removal and privacy service
Compensation Overview
$160k - $180k/yr
Remote in USA
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- Bachelor's degree (MBA or MAcc preferred but not required)
- 5+ years of experience in tech-focused private equity or venture capital and / or in strategic finance roles at a fast-growing tech startup
- Strong understanding of key finance areas like FP&A, revenue management, financial modeling, and accounting
- Proficiency in developing investor materials, including investor decks, financial models, and data rooms, to effectively articulate business value and growth potential
- Highly analytical and data-driven, with experience in reporting and KPI management.
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment and adapt to evolving needs.
- Lead financial planning, analysis, and modeling, supporting business decisions
- Manage financial operational processes, including billing, accounting, vendor management, and expense tracking
- Support corporate development activities, including investor engagement
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide financial insights that inform and influence the company's pricing strategy
- Prepare executive-level presentations and board materials that clearly communicate complex findings and recommendations.
- MBA or MAcc preferred
- Experience in cybersecurity or data privacy industries is a plus
Optery helps individuals protect online privacy by removing personal data from online databases and people search directories. It offers a free view of exposed data across about 100 directories and paid plans with real-time progress tracking, multiple opt-out requests per year, and ongoing access to data brokers. The subscription model funds ongoing support from Customer Support Specialists and a managed opt-out service that continually removes data. Its goal is to reduce identity theft risk and data breaches by giving people control over their online presence and complementing other privacy tools like VPNs and antivirus software.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$2.8M
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2020
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Users report 68% profile removals after four months per 2024 Consumer Reports study.
- 79% Trustpilot reviewers give five stars for effective spam reduction within three months.
- SOC 2 Type II compliance and enterprise SSO integrations drive business adoption.
What critics are saying
- Optery removes only 68% profiles in four months, losing users to Aura and Incogni.
- $249/year premium pricing repels users to cheaper DeleteMe and IDX Complete.
- Data brokers ignore opt-outs for AI ads, rendering service ineffective by 2027.
What makes Optery unique
- Optery holds two US patents for AI-driven opt-out automation solving captchas and emails.
- Optery scans 100+ directories with screenshot-verified removal reports unmatched by rivals.
- Optery combines AI automation with human experts for superior data broker coverage.
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↑ 4%DeleteMe acquires social media tool Block Party. DeleteMe hints at expanding its online privacy protection by acquiring Block Party, a social-media clean-up tool. Both tools remain separate for now. Last Updated: 09 Apr'26 DeleteMe is one of the best-known online data removal services, contacting data brokers on your behalf to request data removal (you can read more about it in its DeleteMe review). Data brokers harvest publicly available data about people and package that information to sell to companies, government agencies and really anyone who wants to know more about you. These data removal services are useful because it automates the removal process, which would take far more time if a person wanted to do it themselves. They also continue to monitor data broker sites, and they will continue to request data deleting if data brokers start collecting information again. However, a soft spot in data removal is that many people publish information on their accounts - like Instagram, Facebook, X and Google - that can be harvested by data brokers. Enter Block Party, a service that scans personal accounts across 12 platforms, flags privacy risks and bulk-cleans your posts, photos and connections to reduce your online exposure. This past week, DeleteMe announced it was acquiring Block Party, saying it "closes this gap by acting like a privacy expert for your social media." Although both services remain separate for now, DeleteMe plans to incorporate features into its service in the future to help individuals reclaim privacy and to protect teams from social engineering attacks. This ultimately gives DeleteMe an edge over its competitors, like Incogni and Optery, which currently focus largely on data removal and identity theft protection. Cloudwards will keep an eye on DeleteMe's offerings in the future and update the review once they announce changes to incorporate Block Party features.
Optery, a personal data removal platform, has been ranked number 12 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list of fastest-growing private companies, posting 763% revenue growth over two years. The company ranked second in the Security category and first in the San Francisco metro area. The San Francisco-based startup helps individuals and businesses remove exposed personal information from data broker and people-search websites. Optery scans over 640 data broker sites, automates opt-out requests and provides detailed removal reports with before-and-after screenshots. The company has received multiple industry awards, including PCMag Editors' Choice for five consecutive years and was named by Business Insider as one of 30 early-stage startups most likely to become tech's next unicorns in 2025. Hundreds of thousands of people and over 1,000 businesses currently use Optery's services.
The best Personal Data Removal services for 2025. PCMag began evaluating and reviewing antivirus software shortly after antivirus apps for PCs became available. As new types of attacks on your privacy arise, so do new defenses, such as services that clear your private details from data broker websites. And we cover those services. When a site like National Public Data, which lost the SSNs of every American during a breach, rebrands as a people search site, personal data removal services come to the rescue. We evaluate these services based on price, ease of use, and bonus features, and we put each one through hands-on tests. Incogni, Optery, and Privacy Bee emerged as the top performers in our analysis, earning our Editors' Choice award for their verifiable and comprehensive data removal capabilities. These aren't the only ones worth considering, though. Read on for more options, as well as tips on selecting the service that best suits your needs. Our top tested picks. Best for Precise, Verifiable Data Removal Best for Inexpensive Data Removal Best Range of Privacy Tools Best for Mobile-Focused Users Best for Masking Personal Data Best black friday Personal Data Removal service deals this week*. * DeleteMe - 20% Off Privacy Protection Plans With Code "PCMAG" * Incogni - Exclusive Deal: Get 55% Off Annual Plans With Code "PCMAG"
Optery named winner of the 2025 Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Most Innovative Anti-Phishing. Optery recognized for Most Innovative Anti-Phishing in Cyber Defense Magazine's 13th annual InfoSec Awards, presented during CyberDefenseCon 2025 in orlando, florida. October 28, 2025 09:00 ET | Source: Optery SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Optery, the leader in enterprise personal data removal, today announced it has been named the winner of the Most Innovative Anti-Phishing award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry's leading electronic information security magazine. Optery is unique among personal data removal solutions, combining sophisticated patented search technology with automated opt-out software to discover and remove dozens more exposed data broker profiles per person than other services. This dual approach dramatically reduces the online attack surface that fuels phishing and other social engineering attacks. The Top InfoSec Innovator Awards 2025 spotlight the cybersecurity companies driving industry innovation and shaping the future of cyber defense. Now in its 13th year, the Cyber Defense Awards, presented during CyberDefenseCon 2025, honor companies delivering exceptional solutions in cybersecurity. The event brings together Top Global CISOs, who gather by invitation only, to connect with leading cybersecurity innovators. "Phishing continues to be the most pervasive threat vector in cybersecurity, and exposed personal data is a primary enabler," said Chen Atlas, CTO and Founder of Optery. "Optery's innovation lies in combining the industry's most sophisticated personal data removal automation and AI, with expertly trained human privacy agents, creating a solution that finds and removes more personal information than ever before. This gives security organizations an additional lever to neutralize phishing risks at their source. We're honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine for helping companies stem the tide of phishing attacks and reduce their overall exposure in a measurable, lasting way." "Phishing defense has traditionally been reactive, focused on detecting or responding to attacks after they begin," said Paul Mander, GM of Optery for Business. "Optery changes that by playing offense. We simulate attacker reconnaissance, find the exposed employee and executive data they would exploit, and remove it before it can be weaponized. This proactive approach shuts down phishing campaigns before they ever start. The result is far fewer attacks to defend against, reduced breach risk, improved security culture, and a lighter load on security teams. We're grateful for this recognition from Cyber Defense Magazine." "Optery embodies three major features we judges look for with the potential to become winners: understanding tomorrow's threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach," said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine. Optery is excited to be among the distinguished group of winners. The full list of the Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/ About Optery Optery is the first company to offer a free report with dozens of screenshots showing where your personal information is being posted by hundreds of data brokers online, and the first to offer IT teams a completely self-service platform for finding and removing employee personal information from the web. Optery subscription plans automatically remove customers from these sites, clearing your home address, phone number, email, and other personal information from the Internet at scale. The service provides users with a proactive defense against escalating PII-based threats such as phishing and other social engineering attacks, credential compromise, identity fraud, doxing, and harassment. Optery has completed its AICPA SOC 2, Type II security attestation, and distinguishes itself with unparalleled search technology, data removal automation, visual evidence-based before-and-after reporting, data broker coverage, and API integration options. Optery was awarded "Editors' Choice" by PCMag.com as the most outstanding product in the personal data removal category in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, received Fast Company's Next Big Things in Tech award for security and privacy in 2023, was named winner in the Employee Privacy Protection, Attack Surface Management, and Digital Footprint Management categories of the 2024 and 2025 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, received the Top InfoSec Innovator Award for Attack Surface Management by Cyber Defense Magazine in 2024, won the Best Service for Attack Surface Management award from Cyber Defense Magazine in 2025, won the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award for Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and was named a winner in SiliconANGLE's 2025 TechForward Awards in the Digital Risk Protection category. Hundreds of thousands of people and over 1,000 businesses use Optery to prevent attacks and keep their personal information off the Internet. This is Cyber Defense Magazine's 13th year of honoring cybersecurity innovators, in this case the Top Global CISOs for 2025, on its Cyber Defense Awards platform. In this competition, judges for these and other prestigious awards includes cybersecurity industry veterans, trailblazers and market makers Ron Gula of Gula Tech Adventures, Gary Miliefsky of CDMG, Dr. Lindsey Polley de Lopez of VentureScope, Katie Gray of In-Q-Tel, Robert R. Ackerman Jr. of DataTribe, Dino Boukouris of AltitudeCyber and with much appreciation to emeritus judges Robert Herjavec of Cyderes, Dr. Peter Stephenson of CDMG and David DeWalt of NightDragon. Top InfoSec Innovators for 2025 is found here: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-infosec-innovators-for-2025/ and download The Black Unicorn Report for 2025: https://cyberdefenseawards.com/the-black-unicorn-report-for-2025/ and Top Global CISOs Winners for 2025, here:https://cyberdefenseawards.com/top-global-cisos-winners-for-2025/. Cyber Defense Magazine was founded in 2012 by Gary S. Miliefsky, globally recognized cyber security thought leader, inventor and entrepreneur and continues to be the premier source of IT Security information. Govcloudnetwork is managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Its mission is to share cutting-edge knowledge, real-world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. Govcloudnetwork deliver electronic magazines every month online for free, and limited special editions exclusively for the RSA, BlackHat and Cyber Defense Conferences. Learn more about Govcloudnetwork at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com. Cyber Defense Magazine is a proud member of the Cyber Defense Media Group.
Optery wins SiliconANGLE TechForward award in the Digital Risk Protection platform category.