Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Voleon is a technology-driven firm at the forefront of applying advanced AI and machine learning to solve real-world challenges in finance. For over a decade, we have been industry leaders, pioneering the use of AI/ML in investment management. Our continued innovation has established us as a multibillion-dollar asset manager with ambitious plans for the future.

Voleon is growing. As we open offices in more locations, support expanded work-from-home, and expand our capabilities in the cloud, we need security leaders like you to lead the way. We have invested heavily into creating a strong security organization and are looking for someone experienced and passionate in getting us to the next level. We are building a world-class organization, and are searching for a security leader to own this domain.

The Voleon Chief Information Security Officer will serve as the owner of all activities related to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Voleon’s intellectual property, trade secrets, business, investor, and employee data assets. To be successful in the CISO role, one must have proven success working with executive management to determine acceptable levels of risk for the organization in a time-critical, action-oriented manner, leveraging a highly technical background focused on integrating security risk management and business strategy.

This position is responsible for maturing our existing information security management program to ensure that information assets are protected from internal and external threats, working cross-functionally with various teams including research, engineering, finance, legal, and compliance. This role will lead the work of technical information security staff, serving as a liaison between business and technology, planning project stages, assessing business implications, and monitoring progress to ensure deadlines, standards and cost targets are met. The CISO will prioritize projects, solutions, and allocate resources with the assistance of a team of security architects, engineers, and analysts.

The Voleon CISO will work alongside our VP of Engineering, leads of our Research teams, and Chief Operating Officer to meet the needs of the entire organization. Our existing security team and Corporate IT team will report to them, and the CISO will be charged with determining a hiring plan to grow and expand the team as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development, execution, and enforcement of security processes, policies, and procedures to protect our valuable trade secrets.
• Lead our incident response, threat modeling, and threat hunting processes.
• Mature defense-in-depth security for the organization to protect proprietary knowledge, critical IT assets, and sensitive data from external and internal threats.
• Coach, support, and lead the professional development of direct and indirect reports to foster and ensure a positive, open, innovative, and high-performing environment for the team.
• Drive and own the development and strategic execution of the metrics and accountability programs, including SLAs, threat defense, and both operational and project-level KPIs.
• Engage directly with our investors and other external parties as they perform due diligence on the organization.
• Serve as information security subject matter expert and driver of security culture.
• Deliver a secure IT platform built on powerful, capable, modern tools.

Requirements

• 10+ years of information security technology experience.
• 5+ years of management experience.
• Proven leadership experience across a broad range of software-intensive technical environments protecting trade secrets or other critical intellectual property.
• Demonstrated track record of delivery of high-quality projects, on-time and on-budget.
• Leadership presence and a history of active partnership with senior software development leaders regarding protecting the software development lifecycle.

Company Information

Voleon is a technology-driven firm at the forefront of applying advanced AI and machine learning to solve real-world challenges in finance. For over a decade, we have been industry leaders, pioneering the use of AI/ML in investment management. Our continued innovation has established us as a multibillion-dollar asset manager with ambitious plans for the future.