Head of Information Security
Chicago, IL
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Amount
High-velocity account origination platform helps lenders drive profitability, deploying in weeks and scaling in months.If you’re ready to thrive in a fast-paced environment, come join an organization with visionary leadership and FinTech disruptors. With your help, we will continue to reinvent banking by helping our Amount platform partners innovate and digitize their banking products and services!
Amount is excited to announce the recent strategic acquisition of LinearFT, a leading small business banking technology provider. Learn more about the acquisition here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220201005132/en/Amount-acquires-Linear-Financial-Technologies
Amount is seeking a Head of Information Security. The right candidate for the role will set overall information security strategy and support the application security, security operations, and GRC teams. Core responsibilities consist of building, developing, and managing a growing team of security engineers across all the information security disciplines. The right person will be able to navigate complex security problems, thinking like both a hacker and defender, and drive relevant teams to take the right actions in the right time frames to mitigate risks.
What you'll work on:
- Monitor and enhance Amount’s strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program
- Work with IT and Product teams to facilitate risk assessment and risk management processes
- Understand and interact with related disciplines to ensure the consistent application of policies and standards across all technology projects, systems and services
- Provide leadership to the enterprise's information security organization
- Partner with business stakeholders across the company to raise awareness of risk management concerns
Who you are:
- Degree in a technology-related field
- Professional security management certification
- Previously worked in a regulated industry or hosting environment
- Minimum of seven years of experience in a combination of risk management, information security and IT jobs
- Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as PCI, NIST CSF, and CSA STAR.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity
- Strong leadership skills and ability to lead and motivate cross- functional, interdisciplinary teams
- Experience with Cloud computing
About Us
Amount delivers the technology that financial institutions need to build and enhance the digital experience.
Built by digital lending industry veterans, Amount helps partners go digital in months—not years. Amount empowers multi-product omnichannel retail banking experiences and a robust point-of-sale financing suite underpinned by core platform features including fraud prevention, verification, decisioning engines and account management.
Amount partners can optimize performance across product categories by tapping into various service offerings including customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics. Our next generation lending platform runs its complete test suite in under 60s and currently has 93% code coverage.
Our values:
Optimistic: We believe technology has the power to improve the financial lives of everyone. Teamwork: We make the best technology work for our clients by working together. Risk Aware: We understand the impacts of each and every decision we make in our high risk industry. Integrity: We work honestly and undivided in our commitment to make more possible. Eager: We are self-starters, fully engaged and committed to pushing great ideas forward quickly and responsibly.Respectful: We honor diversity, value inclusion, and create an environment of belonging for people of all backgrounds. Committed: We are dedicated to the highest standard for our partners, their customers, and our people. Curious: We seek to understand the core of each problem, enabling us to find the right solution.
Benefits and Perks:
Enjoy each other's company over happy hours, yoga and meditation sessions, lunch and learns, team demo days, game nights, and more!Take the time you need when you need it through our Flexible PTO policy.Save $$ on taxes by using our commuter and transit benefits! We also have a bike storage room available onsite.Get fit using the onsite gyms in our Chicago and LA offices!Don't get hangry - enjoy a lunch stipend via Grubhub+ in our four office locations! Take advantage of our comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision coverage, 401(k), parental leave, HSA match, and an Employee Assistance Program.Interested in having a stake in Amount? We offer a meaningful equity program.Have a pet? Then, we're paws-itively certain you're going to love our My Pet Protection plans.Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance are options too!
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Tags: Analytics Application security Banking Cloud FinTech NIST Risk assessment Risk management Security strategy Strategy
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