Senior Cybersecurity Advisor
Chennai, India
Freshworks
Company Description
Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end user. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a global team operating from 13 global locations to serve more than 65,000 companies -- from startups to public companies – that rely on Freshworks software-as-a-service to enable a better customer experience (CRM, CX) and employee experience (ITSM).
Freshworks’ cloud-based software suite includes Freshdesk (omni-channel customer support), Freshsales (sales automation), Freshmarketer (marketing automation), Freshservice (IT service desk), Freshchat (AI-powered bots), supported by Neo, our underlying platform of shared services.
Freshworks is featured in global national press including CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg and has been a BuiltIn Best Place to work in San Francisco and Denver for the last 3 years. Our customer ratings have earned Freshworks products TrustRadius Top Rated Software ratings and G2 Best of Awards for Best Feature Set, Best Value for the Price and Best Relationship.
Job Description
We are seeking a motivated and experienced professional to join our GTM (go-to-market) information security team as Senior Cybersecurity Advisor. This person will report to the Manager, Information Security with the primary responsibility of being a subject matter expert in Cybersecurity providing confidence and assurance to freshworks existing customers and prospective customers.
The objective of the role is to be a technical security expert and win the trust of customers representing the information security of the company. The role is key to provide to customers adequate, contextual, and timely information around information security.
This role will be responsible for working closely with the Security Engineering, Product Engineering teams and be a single point of contact handling all cloud security, AWS architecture-related aspects. Working with Customer facing teams such as Sales, Pre-Sales, Channel Sales, Customer Success, Customer Support, and Deals desk teams this role will handle information security requirements from prospective customers and/or existing customers.
The scope of the role includes responding to RFPs, security, and data privacy questionnaires, and handling calls jointly with other teams from the Go-To-Market functions. Given the wide range of time zones that we cater to, the role members will be aligned to different time zones when required.
Play the role of technical security advisor providing assurance on information security asks from prospective or existing customers related to security engineering, architecture, and technical security aspects of the product.
Work with product engineering & security engineering teams, create reusable customer shareable technical security collaterals based on customer asks for providing the required information security assurance.
Participate in customer discussions related to technical security.
Respond to information security questionnaires, Inquiries, Queries, RFI/RFPs, other due diligence documents.
Perform Contract Reviews (MSA, DPA, BAA, etc…) for the applicable/related to information security obligations.
Coach the existing team members upskilling their technical security knowledge.
Have a balanced work-life integration.
Qualifications
3-5 years of experience in Information Security roles (Application Security Architecture or Security Pre Sales or Solutioning)
Experience in Cloud services/technology (AWS) around information security.
Flexibility in working in different shifts/regions. This is absolutely mandatory because you will be expected to work in a specific shift
Good understanding and knowledge of web frameworks and architecture.
Any experience as a Pre-Sales/Solution Engineering in a SAAS setup is a plus.
Good verbal and written communication skills to communicate concisely and unambiguously.
Desire to work in a dynamic, aggressively growing environment and adhere to a strong work discipline of responding to customers contextually and in a timely manner.
Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision.
Additional Information
At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Application security Automation AWS Cloud Privacy SaaS
Perks/benefits: Startup environment
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