Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Join Planet, a rapidly growing company, as the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this key executive role, you will drive the strategic evolution of Planet's information security landscape, architecting a sophisticated, enterprise-wide security strategy that aligns with broader business goals. You will oversee departmental budgets and results, empower front-line managers, and manage cyber risk. This is a unique opportunity to build a predictive, future-proof security organization at a rapidly growing company.

• Architecting and implementing a sophisticated, enterprise-wide security strategy that aligns with business goals and anticipates evolving threats.
• Overseeing departmental budgets and results, empowering front-line managers to execute the vision, and building a predictive, future-proof security organization.
• Collaborating with business and technology teams to ensure security and compliance postures exceed industry standards, and influencing enterprise-wide strategic direction.
• Experience with common attack scenarios across the layers of our infrastructure (cloud infrastructure, web applications and interfaces, authentication and authorization, network flows, code quality, insider threat, and the like)
• Deep industry and commercial awareness, accompanied by a track record of thought leadership, public speaking, and published work in the information security industry
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on explaining security topics, such as the OWASP Top 10, clearly and to a variety of audiences with varying technical sophistication
• Ability to separate the genuinely important from the merely urgent, proactively soliciting ideas and information from multiple external and internal perspectives to forecast risk years in advance
• Deep understanding of information security principles and common reconnaissance and exploitation frameworks
• Deep understanding of networking and web application architecture
• Experience with the operations and security facets of cloud environments (Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, primarily)
• Ability to cultivate an approachable leadership style that values patience, empathy, and vulnerability, while understanding the impact of your leadership wake
• Experience with enterprise risk management frameworks and implementing certification for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience and 8+ years of leadership experience
• Experience leading a diverse group of people, setting clear expectations, and holding people accountable
• Understanding of a wide range of vulnerability classes including modern adversarial AI attacks, model poisoning, and LLM supply chain vulnerabilities
• Track record of architecting a multi-year security roadmap that successfully anticipated future technology disruptions
• Prior or current government security clearance
• Red team experience
• Government national security experience