Chief Information Security Officer

**Chief Information Security Officer**

at Foursquare New York, NY Foursquare is the leading independent location technology and data cloud platform, powered by dedicated to building meaningful bridges between digital spaces and physical places. Our proprietary technology unlocks the most accurate, trustworthy location data in the world, empowering businesses to answer key questions, uncover hidden insights, improve customer experiences, and achieve better business outcomes. A pioneer of the geo-location space, Foursquares location tech stack is being utilized by the worlds largest enterprises and most recognizable brands.

Foursquares flexible building blocks include technology to maximize marketing impact and drive incremental real-world engagement (Attribution, Audience, Proximity, SDK); data to deeply understand points of interest and real-world behavior patterns (Places and Visits), and tools to conduct advanced analysis, data enrichment, unification and visualization (Unfolded Studio).

We are looking for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who will be responsible for providing executive leadership managing data and information risks related to product development, technology solutions, crisis management, governance risk, compliance and data privacy

The CISO will have responsibility for all data/information security policies, standards, evaluations, and determining, implementing, and supporting cyber security standards for the global enterprise. The candidate must be creative and technologically bold as well as possess a mix of pragmatism, strong management, communications skills, and technical depth.

You will be involved in all facets of information security and work across departments in a fast-paced environment, wearing multiple hats and managing large initiatives such as security audits. You must have a passion for implementing and supporting cyber security standards to keep our customers and our company’s data safe.

**As CISO for Foursquare:**

* You will lead a diverse technical organization to identify, develop, implement, and maintain security processes, practices, and policies throughout the organization to reduce risks, respond to incidents, and limit exposure and liability in all areas of informational, financial, physical, personal, and reputational risk.

* You will ensure Foursquare is in compliance with local, national, and international regulatory environments where applicable to the accountability of this role (e.g. privacy and data protection)

* You will partner with legal and compliance teams to create and support a security culture through education and awareness programs designed to reduce the risks to the enterprise while also engaging key business leaders to ensure business unit involvement.

* You will develop an effective strategy to assess and mitigate risk (foreign and domestic), managing crises and incidents, maintaining continuity of operations, and safeguarding the organization

* Your team will research and deploy state-of-the-art technology solutions and innovative security management techniques to safeguard the organizations personnel and assets, including intellectual property and trade secret

* Your team will establish and promote security by design best practices, and provide expertise and implementation of secure solutions in regards to feature development and controls on SDLC and cloud governance – often in collaboration with other engineering teams

* You will enable Foursquare to stay ahead of the global threat landscape and the technologies used to defend corporate assets, reputation and revenue-streams

**Qualifications:**

* 15+ years of relevant experience in the Information Technology space

* 10+ years must be directly related to information security (at least five must be in a senior leadership role)

* Hands-on experience leading incident response activities for security events

* Experience with security on cloud platforms with a deep understanding of offerings from key cloud providers (i.e. AWS, Azure)

* Expertise in a variety of multifactor authentication platforms and other relevant access management technologies

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate information security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

* Broad practical experience in security software in Mobile Device Management (MDM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), EDR applications, MacOS, iOS, Microsoft platforms, and VM environments, etc.

* Knowledge of best practices of IT security hardware and software (Firewall, IDS, IPS, Content Filters, VPN, Authentication and Encryption)

* Proven track record and experience in developing information security policies and procedures, as well as successfully executing programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic business environment

**Perks and benefits:**

* Learning and development programs from individual contributors to managers

* Individual, professional coaching for all full-time employees

* Flexible time off – rest and recharge when you need it!

* Comprehensive and competitive health, vision, dental, life insurance

* 401(k) with company match

* Home office setup: you get all necessary hardware and internet reimbursement

* Family planning programs via Carrot and Maven

* Employee Resource Groups to help you stay connected

Foursquare is proud to foster an inclusive environment that is free from discrimination. We strongly believe in order to build the best products, we need a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds. This leads to a more delightful experience for our users and team members. We value listening to every voice and we encourage everyone to come be a part of building a company and products we love.

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