# Head of Information Security & IT

**Company:** [Chronograph](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/chronograph)
**Location:** Brooklyn, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $215k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Information Security, Cloud Security, Application Security, Identity Management, Vulnerability Management, Incident Response, SIEM, Edr, Waf, Dlp, SAST, Sca, DAST, Soar, ISO 27001
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Leads Chronograph’s information security and IT strategy, combining executive leadership with hands-on oversight of cloud, application, AI, corporate, and compliance security. Requires at least seven years of security experience, broad technical depth, assurance-program leadership, and strong executive communication.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own Chronograph’s information security program, strategy, architecture, and roadmap.
- Serve as the senior security leader in strategic client, partner, and external engagements.
- Lead and mentor a team of security, compliance, and IT practitioners.
- Assess security posture and prioritize pragmatic, high-impact improvements.
- Communicate security risks, priorities, and tradeoffs to executive leadership.
- Develop technical approaches, validate assumptions, build proofs of concept, and implement controls where appropriate.
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams on cloud, application, identity, logging, and security initiatives.
- Lead vulnerability management, threat modeling, secure development, application security architecture, detection, and incident response programs.
- Own application security tooling, including SAST, SCA, DAST, SOAR, secrets detection, and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
- Set AI security strategy, including controls for AI tools, agents, models, integrations, sensitive data, and permissions.
- Threat-model AI-enabled functionality and assess emerging offensive and defensive AI security developments.
- Own the detection and response stack, including SIEM, EDR, WAF, DLP, and alert-routing automation.
- Set direction for corporate IT, identity, endpoint management, and employee technology.
- Own SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and broader security assurance strategy.
- Set direction for risk assessments, risk registers, policy lifecycle management, and third-party risk programs.
- Partner with compliance, sales, and customer teams on security due diligence and customer requirements.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of information security experience, including meaningful hands-on technical experience and increasing ownership of security programs.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to investigate problems, develop solutions, build proofs of concept, and implement controls.
- Broad experience across cloud and application security, identity, vulnerability management, and detection and response.
- Experience owning or materially leading an information security program covering risk management, policies, controls, and security roadmaps.
- Experience with security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, or GDPR.
- Experience leading SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or comparable assurance and certification programs.
- Experience representing security controls, certifications, and risk posture to enterprise customers and auditors.
- Strong understanding of emerging threats and the security implications of AI.
- Strong executive communication skills and ability to translate technical risks and controls into clear business language.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $215,000–$250,000 annually.
- Equity participation.
- 401(k).
- Unlimited and flexible vacation.
- Health benefits.
- Team week events at the Brooklyn, NY headquarters three times annually.
- Fully paid parental leave.

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