Panthalassa

Panthalassa

Director of Information Security

Portland, OR · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$275kDetected 80 days ago
Cloud PlatformsCI/CDCybersecuritySIEMIncident ResponseComplianceSupply ChainERPRoboticsHardware DesignZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationRenewable Energy

About the role

  • Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
  • The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices.
  • We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical roadmap for information security across Panthalassa's corporate, cloud, and enterprise systems environments
  • Design and implement security architecture for identity, endpoint, network, SaaS, and cloud systems, with a focus on secure-by-default standards
  • Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to harden corporate networks, cloud environments, endpoints, and collaboration systems
  • Define and implement identity and access management patterns, including SSO, MFA, role-based access controls, privileged access workflows, and lifecycle management
  • Lead vulnerability management across internal systems and applications, including scanner tuning, prioritization, remediation guidance, and verification of fixes
  • Secure enterprise systems and the digital thread that support engineering release, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations
  • Perform security architecture reviews for new tools, vendors, infrastructure changes, and internal systems
  • Build lightweight, durable security policies and standards that are aligned with how the company actually works
  • Partner with legal, finance, IT, and business operations on audit readiness, third-party risk, and customer or partner security requirements
  • Drive remediation of high-priority risks through direct implementation, automation, and close partnership with system owners

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, platform security, or a closely related domain
  • Strong hands-on experience securing cloud and enterprise environments, including identity, networking, endpoints, SaaS, and logging/monitoring systems
  • Proven experience leading vulnerability management and remediation programs in a fast-moving engineering environment
  • Experience designing security architectures and making high-quality tradeoff decisions in complex, ambiguous settings
  • Ability to move fluidly between strategic planning and hands-on execution
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
  • Experience as a founding or early security hire at a scaling startup
  • Familiarity with security requirements relevant to enterprise infrastructure, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001 control environments
  • Experience with zero trust architecture, device trust, and modern endpoint management
  • Experience with cloud security tooling, SIEM/log pipelines, EDR, MDM, and infrastructure policy enforcement

Skills

  • About the Job
  • Your job is not to create bureaucracy.

Compensation

  • Compensation and Benefits

Benefits

  • Equity in the company.
  • We're all owners and if we're successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
  • A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Dental insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
  • Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
  • Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
  • Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA

Company info

  • We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans.
  • Panthalassa is moving from prototype systems toward repeatable production, larger facilities, more connected enterprise systems, and increasingly mission-critical software, infrastructure, and operational data flows.
  • We're hiring a Director of Information Security to scale and mature the security foundations that will allow the company to scale quickly without losing control.
  • This is a hands-on, high-leverage builder role.
  • You will own the technical direction of Panthalassa's information security program across corporate infrastructure, cloud environments, engineering systems, identity and access management, enterprise applications, and security operations.
  • Your job is to build practical guardrails, resilient architectures, and clear operating mechanisms that make the company more secure while helping engineering, manufacturing, and business teams move faster.
  • You'll partner closely with IT, software, test, enterprise systems, manufacturing, and leadership to identify the highest-risk gaps, prioritize what matters, and implement controls that are robust, scalable, and usable in the real world.
  • This role is both an individual contributor and a strategic leadership role, where you will shape the broader security organization, vendor strategy, and long-term roadmap.
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