Bitsight

Bitsight

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Boston, MA · Exec · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$280k-$375kDetected 30 days ago
AWSAzureCloud PlatformsLLMsCybersecuritySOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseComplianceProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • This role is both inward-facing and outward-facing, requiring a leader who can balance internal enterprise defense with external market influence.
  • Internal Defense & Cross-Functional Partnership: You will be responsible for protecting Bitsight's internal systems, infrastructure, employees, products, and data.

Responsibilities

  • Modern Defense: Oversee security across endpoints, IAM, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), SaaS applications, and data protection programs. Lead incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management.
  • Secure-by-Design: Drive security architecture practices in close partnership with Engineering, Product, and Product Security teams.
  • Operational Resilience: Lead enterprise risk assessments, mitigation planning, third-party risk, and business continuity initiatives.
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, GRC, People, Finance, and Go-To-Market teams to operationalize security initiatives across the business.
  • Strategic Customer Engagement: Serve as an executive security sponsor in high-value customer, prospect, partner, and renewal conversations. Support customer trust initiatives, security reviews, audits, and executive briefings.
  • Compliance & Governance: Partner closely with Legal, Privacy, and GRC to ensure rigorous adherence to SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, privacy obligations, and emerging global AI regulations.
  • Ecosystem Relationships & Thought Leadership: Build strategic relationships with fellow security leaders, analysts, regulators, and partners across the cybersecurity ecosystem.
  • Drive security architecture practices in close partnership with Engineering, Product, and Product Security teams.
  • Serve as an executive security sponsor in high-value customer, prospect, partner, and renewal conversations.
  • Support customer trust initiatives, security reviews, audits, and executive briefings.

Requirements

  • You bring this technical rigor together with the strategic pragmatism required to balance strict security priorities against operational realities, customer needs, and business growth.
  • Compliance & Governance: Strong, practical experience with compliance and governance frameworks, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and related standards.
  • Risk Translation & Strategic Focus: The ability to translate complex technical risks-including AI-driven threats-into clear business impact, options, tradeoffs, and actionable guidance.

Skills

  • Oversee security across endpoints, IAM, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), SaaS applications, and data protection programs.
  • Lead incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management.
  • Establish security KPIs, metrics, and reporting frameworks to measure program effectiveness, operational maturity, and business impact.
  • A student of how LLMs and automation are changing the adversary's playbook.
  • Why Bitsight?
  • Belonging & Inclusion.
  • Bitsight is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
  • Bitsight offers best in class benefits.
  • Open-minded.
  • This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Compensation

  • The anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is US $280,000 to $375,000 annually for US-based employees.

Company info

  • CTO, CPO, Head of Marketing, Head of People
  • The Objective
  • We are seeking a strategic, operationally rigorous, and commercially engaged CISO who views security not as a cost center, but as a product differentiator and a catalyst for global trust.
  • You will protect our enterprise value by securing our global infrastructure, while simultaneously building enterprise value by acting as a peer-level advisor to our customers, influencing our product roadmap, and defining how AI transforms cyber risk management.
  • Role Overview
  • Bitsight is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer to lead and evolve our global security program.
  • You will serve as a trusted security voice with customers, partners, analysts, media, and the broader cybersecurity community.
  • Serve as one of the public faces of Bitsight's security and AI strategy, representing the company with customers, analysts, industry groups, regulators, and media.
  • An exceptional communicator with sound judgment and the ability to serve as a steady hand during crises, combined with a deep commitment to mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, and driving a robust security culture at scale.
  • Market Voice & Customer Trust: You will serve as a trusted security voice with customers, partners, analysts, media, and the broader cybersecurity community.
  • Product & Research Alignment: Partner with Product and Research teams to inform Bitsight's strategy around AI-powered cyber risk, emerging threat behaviors, and how customers can better understand and manage exposure in a changing threat environment.
  • Market Voice & Ambassadorship: Serve as one of the public faces of Bitsight's security and AI strategy, representing the company with customers, analysts, industry groups, regulators, and media.
  • We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Strategic Customer Engagement: Serve as an executive security sponsor in high-value customer, prospect, partner, and renewal conversations
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