Head of Information Security and IT

Leadership

• Work with Security, GRC, and IT teams, providing guidance, mentorship, and career development opportunities.
• Build and maintain trust with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders by ensuring transparency, reliability, and a proactive security approach.
• Advocate for security awareness and drive cultural change within the organization.
• Regularly report on the status of the organization’s security posture and risks to Kandji’s executive leadership team and board via the ISMS and AIMS committee.
• Develop a comprehensive framework for security, IT and compliance metrics that aligns with organizational goals and regulatory requirements and presents them to the ELT team of a predefined cadence.
• Conduct calls with current and prospective Kandji customers to provide transparency and trust on Kandji’s security posture. 

Security

• Develop and implement a comprehensive information security strategy to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets across the Kandji platform for Kandji’s customers as well as internally for our internal employee base.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive incident response plan, including forensic investigations, reporting, and recovery efforts.
• Monitor emerging threats and continuously improve the company’s defenses through proactive threat management.
• Accountability for the incident response team in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from security breaches or threats.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

• Ensure compliance with relevant security frameworks, regulations, and standards such as SOC2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, GDPR, and others.
• Develop and maintain internal policies, standards, and procedures to ensure effective governance, privacy and assurance.
• Work with the audit team during internal and external audits to provide documentation and ensure remediation of identified issues.
• Direct implementation of risk mitigation strategies that reduce vulnerabilities and align with business priorities.
• Conduct security assessments of vendors, contractors, and third-party service providers to ensure they adhere to security standards and policies.

IT

• Oversight of high level strategy for Kandji’s internal IT team. Ensuring a high level of support for Kandji’s employees throughout our globally diverse organization.
• Participation in Kandji’s Customer Zero initiatives, working closely with internal product teams to ensure new product enhancements are always tested and adopted internally.
• Join us in building a world-class IT organization and set the standard for the new modern IT. 

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• 10+ years of experience in Security and IT, with 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with a track record of mentoring and developing talent.
• Deep technical knowledge across Security, Risk Management, and IT.
• Ability to communicate complex Security and IT issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of governance, compliance, and incident response.
• Experience operating in a hyper-growth startup environment.
• Required to work on-site 5x a week in our Miami office (Coral Gables).