Head Of Security

As the Head of Security at Super.Com, you’ll be our most senior and accountable security leader
You’ll define and drive our security roadmap, staff and manage our security function, navigate our risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and help us deliver a safe and secure product to our customers
You’ll report to our Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, and work closely with leaders across Legal, Data, Engineering, Product, Finance and HR while maintaining direct access to our executive team and board
Expect high autonomy, frequent collaboration, a fast pace, and reliance on your own initiative
You’ll leverage your years of technology leadership experience to define what success looks like, and to align your organization’s outcomes closely with company-level objectives
This is a strategic and technical role that requires scaling your impact across AI tools, team leadership, cross-functional partnerships, and individual contributions
Reflecting our rapid growth, Super.Com is actively expanding our security function. This Security & IT organization is responsible for IT, GRC, Product Security and Corporate security
This organization has two arms: A security engineering team covering application and infrastructure security reports to you directly, with day-to-day technical leadership from a Staff engineer
An IT & Compliance function covering IT, GRC, and Corporate Security is led by a Director who also reports to you
This team exists within the broader Infrastructure Engineering organization alongside the Quality, Sales/Support Engineering, and DevOps/Platform functions
This is a fast-paced team with broad scope, high autonomy, and close collaboration across other departments
Building out the team: You’ll lead hiring for engineers, GRC staff, and SOC partners
You’ll manage reports ranging in experience from junior IC to Staff and Director level, providing mentorship and directing them toward impactful opportunities
Own OKR setting and broad strategic planning across Security related domains
Mature our governance, risk, & compliance functions, including: Expanding our control framework with automated evidence, policy lifecycle, risk management, and managing privacy obligations in partnership with Legal
Champion an AI-first security program: direct the continued build-out of our AI-native vulnerability management and detection tooling, provide safety while the company adopts AI, and use AI to scale the team’s output well beyond its headcount
Set the security culture: training, secure-by-default patterns, developer enablement, and clear expectations so every team ships securely without waiting on Security
Ensure our customers are protected and our product is secure through experienced tool selection, organization structure, and well directed security team focus
Provide technical direction and final say on security architecture across Engineering
You’ll be accountable to the board for overall security posture and risk acceptance
Our Technology:
Product services are authored as K8s-based microservices powered by Python FastAPI backends and TypeScript React front-end code
Apps are built upon Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Snowflake
Our infrastructure runs on AWS and leverages hosted infrastructure technologies such as EKS, MSK, Elasticache, and RDS. We use Istio for service mesh, Helm, TF and Crossplane for IAC, and Kyverno for policy-as-code enforcement
Vulnerabilities are managed through in-house, AI-native custom tooling that your team develops. We orchestrate open-source tools through this custom platform
Security and application logs/metrics/events are managed through Datadog
Our security stack is currently evolving as we select and quickly roll out new tools. You’ll play a deciding role in the selection and deployment of these
As an AI-First engineering organization, we leverage modern AI development workflows using tools such as Cursor, Claude, and internally built AI agents to accelerate implementation and iteration across our codebases. You’ll help Security drive our rapid AI adoption across tooling, process, and our product
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Yearly learning & development allowance
RRSP & 401k employee contribution plan
Bi-annual performance & compensation reviews
Generous equity options
Health, dental, & vision insurance on day one
Parental leave programs
Wellness reimbursement
Supplemental Life Insurance
Unlimited PTO (yes, really!)
Recharge days throughout the year
Office in Toronto
Permanent remote flexibility
Work-from-home allowance
Owned company-level security strategy, budget, and outcomes end-to-end at a fast-paced technology company
10+ years in security, including 4+ years leading a security function or major pillar, and experience managing managers/directors and senior technical leaders(Staff+)
Strong track record hiring security professionals and developing engineers into technical and people leaders
Proven success supporting fast-paced software development teams at scale
Direct professional experience with and notable outcomes from driving AI transformation in security, engineering, and/ or IT organizations
Presented to and worked directly with a Board or Audit Committee, and with external auditors, regulators, or QSAs
Hands-on history in at least two of: application / product security, infra security, detection & incident response, enterprise IT & identity, and GRC
Experience with security risk quantification, acceptance, and translating technical risk into business impact for executive decision-making
Stood up or scaled a GRC program: control frameworks, evidence automation, policy, and privacy program management.
Experience with frameworks such as SOX, GDPR, PCI, SOC2, and/or ISO27001
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