# Senior Director, Security & Compliance

**Company:** [inKind](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/inkind)
**Location:** Austin, TX
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $185k – $215k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** SOC 2, pci dss, cissp, cism, crisc, ccsp, AWS, MDM, Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, Risk Assessment, threat detection, identity and access management
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> Senior Director leading security, compliance, governance, risk, and corporate IT functions at a fintech company. Hands-on player-coach who builds programs (audits, risk assessments, security operations, vendor reviews) while recruiting and scaling a team; sets enterprise policy for Engineering and partners across leadership.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Own

### Security Strategy & Governance
- Develop and execute inKind’s enterprise security strategy, policies, standards, and operating procedures.
- Lead security planning aligned with company growth, product expansion, and regulatory requirements.
- Set enterprise security policy and standards that the product and engineering organizations build against.
- Serve as a senior advisor to leadership on security, compliance, and risk matters.

### Compliance & Audit
- Own the company’s compliance strategy and roadmap.
- Lead audit readiness and certification programs, including SOC 2, PCI DSS, privacy programs, vendor and third-party risk management, and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Partner with Legal and Finance on governance and regulatory obligations.
- Ensure compliance programs remain scalable as the business grows.

### Security Operations & Risk Management
- Oversee security operations, monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and threat detection.
- Establish company-wide risk management and risk assessment programs.
- Develop security metrics, executive dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
- Lead incident response planning, tabletop exercises, and business continuity initiatives.
- Manage third-party security reviews and vendor risk assessments.

### Corporate IT Operations
- Own corporate IT operations, including the internal IT team, endpoint and device management, internal systems, and helpdesk support.
- Manage identity and access administration across corporate systems and SaaS applications.
- Establish IT standards, device lifecycle and asset management, and operational service levels.
- Ensure IT operations support a secure, productive workforce across the company’s office and distributed environments.

### Product & Platform Security Partnership
- Partner with Engineering and Product to integrate security into the software development lifecycle and define secure development standards.
- Provide governance, policy, and advisory oversight for cloud (AWS) security architecture and application security (Engineering owns platform implementation).
- Advise on threat modeling, secure architecture reviews, and security testing practices.
- Ensure security requirements are represented throughout the product lifecycle.

### Leadership & Organizational Development
- Build and lead a high-performing IT, Security, & Compliance organization.
- Hire, mentor, and develop security, compliance, and IT professionals.
- Establish accountability frameworks and performance metrics.
- Create a culture of security awareness and shared responsibility.

## Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive experience in security, compliance, IT, governance, or risk management.
- Experience leading and developing people across security, compliance, or IT, with the depth to operate as a hands-on technical leader.
- Demonstrated success as a hands-on, player-coach leader in a lean or scaling environment — personally executing core security, compliance, and IT work while building the team.
- Proven experience owning compliance programs and audits, including SOC 2 and PCI DSS.
- Experience presenting to executive leadership, auditors, and external stakeholders.
- CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, or equivalent certifications.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or regulated industries.
- Experience managing corporate IT and device management platforms (e.g., MDM).
- Experience supporting high-growth startup or scale-up organizations.

## Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- 9 Paid Company Holidays
- 100% Company-Paid Medical and Dental Coverage for Employees
- Vision Coverage Available
- Company-Paid Short-Term Disability
- Child Care Benefits
- Generous Parental Leave
- Professional Development Opportunities
- Daily Catered Lunches and Snacks
- Dining Credit within the inKind Network

## Compensation
Base Salary: $185,000 – $215,000 DOE

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