San Francisco, CA; Washington, DC Hybrid Employment

Planet is hiring a Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

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.

Nice to Have

  • 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.

Benefits

  • 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)
  • Volunteering Paid Time Off
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Planet
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. It is both a space company and a data company.
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