Information Security Director

London, England, United Kingdom - Remote

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Cytora

Cytora transforms underwriting for commercial insurance. Our platform helps insurers to underwrite more accurately, reduce frictional costs, and achieve profitable growth.

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We are a high-growth FinTech start-up using data and machine learning to revolutionize the insurance industry. You will be joining a strong and mission driven team, working to build products that are fundamentally changing the way insurers see the world, enabling them to move from an assumption-based understanding of risk to an empirical, data-driven view.

The Role

As we continue to evolve and improve our information security environment across different countries and become ISO27001 certified, we are seeking an expert to design, own and run the compliance environment.

We need someone who is a digital-native (ideally with software experience), passionate about technology and proactively stays on the bleeding edge of the latest innovation in software and cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

  • Develop, implement and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security and IT risk management program
  • Evaluate the company’s threat landscape. Work directly with the business units to facilitate risk assessment and risk management processes
  • Develop and enhance an information security management framework
  • Ensure consistent application of security policies and standards across all technology projects, systems and services
  • Provide leadership to the company's information security organization
  • Partner with business stakeholders across the company to raise awareness of risk management concerns
  • Assist with the overall business technology planning, providing a current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems
  • Lead security audits and compliance initiatives
  • Lead or support business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives
  • Lead data privacy aspects of information security
  • Report on the company's cybersecurity posture and risk management priorities to senior management

Requirements

  • Professional security management certifications, such as CISSP, CISM or CISA
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a combination of risk management, information security and IT jobs
  • Knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, SOC2 and NIST
  • Innovative thinking and leadership with an ability to lead and
  • motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams
  • Experience with contract and vendor negotiations and management
  • Experience working with best in class software development practices and modern IT environments
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high level of personal integrity
  • Self driven and entrepreneurial
  • Strong program and project management skills

Benefits

  • We're remote first, meaning you can work wherever you want in Europe.
  • Monthly get togethers with fun activities
  • Quarterly 3-day offsites in exciting places (eg. Menorca, Greece, Malaga)
  • Freedom to choose your own desk setup including laptop, desk, chair and others
  • Flexi-working outside core hours of 10-4pm GMT
  • We give you £2k/€2k every year for you to go anywhere in the world and work from there
  • £1,500/€1,500 learning and development budget each year
  • Stock options that are exercisable on termination
  • Enhanced parental leave: 18 weeks primary carer, 6 weeks secondary carer
  • Private health insurance with Vitality


*We employ people across the UK and EU (using a 3rd party Employer of Record model), and inevitably the benefits that we can offer vary slightly in different territories, due to local employment law and feasibility. Our salary range does not vary depending on territory.

Tags: Audits CISA CISM CISSP Compliance FinTech ISO 27001 Machine Learning NIST Privacy Risk assessment Risk management SOC 2

Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Health care Parental leave Startup environment

Regions: Remote/Anywhere Europe
Country: United Kingdom
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Category: Leadership Jobs

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