Information Systems Security Engineer (ISSE) - FULLY CLEARED with POLYGRAPH REQUIRED

About the role

We are seeking a Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead our information security strategy. The ideal candidate will architect a sophisticated, enterprise-wide security strategy that aligns with our business goals and anticipates the rapidly evolving AI threat landscape. Key responsibilities include spearheading the multi-year strategic plan for information and cloud security, collaborating with business and technology teams, influencing enterprise-wide strategic direction, empowering front-line managers, managing departmental resources, and overseeing incident response and business recovery plans.

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our San Francisco or Washington, DC office. The role involves managing departmental budgets and results, balancing security with workforce productivity and agility, and serving as the ultimate subject matter expert for security issues, including AI governance, secure machine learning pipelines, and space/ground-station asset protection.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the multi-year strategic plan for information and cloud security, integrating predictive AI defense strategies.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to ensure security and compliance postures exceed industry standards.
• Influence enterprise-wide strategic direction by blending functional security goals with broader business objectives.
• Empower front-line managers through delegation, selection, and continuous professional development.
• Resolve highly complex business problems, transitioning the department toward proactive, strategic forecasting.
• Manage departmental resources, policy, and personnel with full accountability for budget and performance results.
• Architect proactive, intelligence-driven risk forecasting models and security risk management processes.
• Serve as the ultimate subject matter expert for security issues, including AI governance, secure machine learning pipelines, and space/ground-station asset protection.
• Orchestrate incident response and business recovery plans to safeguard critical global services.
• Participate in external security certifications and manage customer security audits.
• Drive security awareness training programs, ensuring all employees are trained on information security concepts, emerging social engineering vectors, and their role in safeguarding Planet.
• Partner with legal and procurement to ensure information security requirements are included in vendor contracts.
• Stay abreast of relevant security developments, industry-wide events, regulations, geopolitical shifts, and emerging technologies.
• Monitor the external threat environment for emerging threats, implementing early mitigations, AI-driven counter-measures, and controls where relevant.
• Act as a positive culture carrier who lives the company values and makes decisions that have a broad impact on both people and company financials.
• Build and nurture external networks consisting of industry peers, ecosystem partners, vendors, government intelligence agencies, and other relevant parties.
• Manage and maturing enterprise risk management frameworks and ISO 27001, ISO 42001, ISO 9001, and CMMC certifications.
• Oversee the establishment and scaling of an international industrial security program managed by your team to govern global clearance reciprocity, international Request for Visit (RFV) pipelines, and multinational contract compliance (including DD-254 equivalents) in strict alignment with NDP-1, ITAR, EAR, and GSIA regulations.

Requirements

Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience and 8+ years of leadership experience. Deep industry and commercial awareness, accompanied by a track record of thought leadership, public speaking, and published work in the information security industry. Ability to separate the genuinely important from the merely urgent, proactively soliciting ideas and information from multiple external and internal perspectives to forecast risk years in advance. Ability to cultivate an approachable leadership style that values patience, empathy, and vulnerability, while understanding the impact of your leadership wake. Experience leading a diverse group of people, setting clear expectations, and holding people accountable. Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on explaining security topics, such as the OWASP Top 10, clearly and to a variety of audiences with varying technical sophistication. Deep understanding of networking and web application architecture. Experience with the operations and security facets of cloud environments (Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, primarily). Experience with common attack scenarios across the layers of our infrastructure (cloud infrastructure, web applications and interfaces, authentication and authorization, network flows, code quality, insider threat, and the like). Deep understanding of information security principles and common reconnaissance and exploitation frameworks. Track record of architecting a multi-year security roadmap that successfully anticipated future technology disruptions. Prior or current government security clearance. Government national security experience. Red team experience. Prior experience in a public company environment.

What You Bring

• Understanding of a wide range of vulnerability classes including modern adversarial AI attacks, model poisoning, and LLM supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Track record of architecting a multi-year security roadmap that successfully anticipated future technology disruptions.
• Prior or current government security clearance.
• Government national security experience.
• Red team experience.
• Prior experience in a public company environment.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Understanding of a wide range of vulnerability classes including modern adversarial AI attacks, model poisoning, and LLM supply chain vulnerabilities.
• Track record of architecting a multi-year security roadmap that successfully anticipated future technology disruptions.
• Prior or current government security clearance.
• Government national security experience.
• Red team experience.
• Prior experience in a public company environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution
Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off
16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
Equity
Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)

Pay

The US base salary range for this full-time position at the commencement of employment is listed below. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary short-term and long-term incentives (bonus and equity).

Schedule

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our San Francisco or Washington, DC office.