Head of Security and Compliance

About the company

Our client is a financial technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead the security function at a fast-paced company, pairing hands-on engineering with people leadership of security engineers. The role covers building security controls into everyday engineering work, shaping security architecture for automated systems, and owning compliance and incident response.

What you'll do

- Build security tooling and processes that engineers adopt as a natural part of shipping software.

- Manage and develop a group of security engineers, supporting their professional growth.

- Strengthen secure development lifecycle practices, threat modeling and vulnerability management.

- Design security architecture for automated and AI-driven systems, covering data privacy and AI-specific risks.

- Partner with go-to-market and legal teams on compliance and customer security questions.

- Own the compliance roadmap across major security frameworks.

- Lead incident response, build detection capabilities and turn each incident into lasting improvements.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Able to write code and read production software, so you can trace and remediate security flaws yourself.

- Strong grounding in application security, product security, secure development lifecycle, web security and DevSecOps.

- Demonstrated accountability for independent audit attestations under widely used security frameworks.

Bonus points

- Background as a software or full-stack engineer who moved into security.

- Earlier work in a senior security leadership position or as the first security hire at a company.

- Involvement in the security community, such as speaking, attending conferences or maintaining open-source projects.

- Degree from a highly ranked US university.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: $200K to $300K

- Equity

- Comprehensive healthcare

- Retirement plan

- Flexible time off

Location and work model

- San Francisco, California, United States

- On-site

- Full-time