Chief Information Security Officer

Job description

Responsibilities

Zipline operates autonomous delivery systems spanning cloud services, customer and operational data, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure. Security must protect those systems, customers, partners, and the people who rely on them while enabling engineering teams to deliver safely and quickly

As Chief Information Security Officer, you will own company-wide security and privacy strategy and lead a lean, technical organization across product and corporate security

You will first focus the company on its most consequential risks and remediation decisions, then build the engineering capabilities, controls, and operating model that scale with Zipline

You can define and communicate a clear company-wide security strategy, align leaders around it, and remain hands‑on in solving the most important problems

Set security and privacy strategy, risk posture, roadmap, operating model, and investment priorities across product, infrastructure, data, corporate technology, and physical systems

Identify and sequence the company’s highest-consequence risks, driving clear remediation decisions with Engineering, IT, Legal, Safety, Operations, and Physical Security

Advise executives and the board on material security and privacy risks, translating technical findings into business tradeoffs and investment decisions

Lead a software security engineering team that contributes production fixes, reusable platforms, and controls that eliminate systemic vulnerability classes

Establish security architecture and practices for identity, access control, secrets, data protection, applications, cloud infrastructure, embedded software, aircraft, and field infrastructure

Lead threat modeling, testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and security reviews; measure risk coverage, remediation, readiness, control effectiveness, and secure‑engineering adoption

Qualifications

Leadership experience in information security, product security, or security engineering within a highly technical organization operating at scaleA software engineering foundation, including experience building production software, security systems, or technical controlsExperience leading serious security incident response and assessing threats from sophisticated external attackersJudgment balancing security, privacy, legal obligations, safety, engineering velocity, customer needs, and business objectives while working directly in a lean teamExperience securing safety‑critical or cyber‑physical systems, such as embedded, robotics, aerospace, automotive, or industrial technologyExperience as a CISO, VP of Security, or equivalent leader accountable for both security strategy and hands‑on executionTechnical depth across application, infrastructure, cloud, identity, data, and software security

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Worksite address

san francisco, CA, 94199, US

Who can apply

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