Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Job description

Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history.

Key Responsibilities

As the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you will serve as a key executive and thought leader driving the strategic evolution of Planet’s information security landscape. You will architect a sophisticated, enterprise-wide security strategy that directly aligns with our broader business goals and anticipates the rapidly evolving AI threat landscape. As a visionary leader, you will ensure our defenses outpace both emerging technologies and sophisticated global threat actors while owning enterprise and third-party cyber risk. You will balance the confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and recoverability of Planet’s global assets with workforce productivity and agility. In this role, you will oversee departmental budgets and results while empowering a capable tier of front-line managers to execute your vision. This is a unique opportunity to build a predictive, future-proof security organization at a rapidly growing company.

This is a full-time, hybrid role which will require you to work from our San Francisco or Washington, DC office 3 days per week.

Requirements

Typically 10+ years of relevant work experience and 8+ years of leadership experience.

Deep industry and commercial awareness, accompanied by a track record of thought leadership, public speaking, and published work in the information security industry.

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.

Ability to cultivate an approachable leadership style that values patience, empathy, and vulnerability, while understanding the impact of your leadership wake.

Experience leading a diverse group of people, setting clear expectations, and holding people accountable

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.

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).

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 understanding of information security principles and common reconnaissance and exploitation frameworks.

Occasional travel required for client and site visits.

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.

Government national security experience.

Red team experience.

Prior experience in a public company environment.

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans

Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company contribution

Generous Paid Time Off in addition to holidays and company-wide days off

16 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

Wellness Program and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Home Office Reimbursement

Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning

Equity

Commuter Benefits (if local to an office)

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Worksite address

arlington, VA, 22201, US

Who can apply

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