Director, Information Security & Technology

GameChanger - New York, NY

Hiring: Director, Information Security & Technology Company: GameChanger Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 10:39:03 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Risk Management About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive experience in Information Security, including meaningful people-management experience leading managers, senior technical leaders, or multidisciplinary security teams. •2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology. Required Skills: •Own and evolve GameChanger’s multi-year Information Security and Technology strategy, including priorities, investments, tooling, resourcing, and risk, aligned to business and parent-company goals. •Set the direction for Product and Application Security, partnering closely with Engineering and Product to embed security throughout architecture, development, and the software development lifecycle. •Lead and develop managers, senior engineers, and technology professionals, setting clear expectations and accountability while empowering your team to own execution and grow their impact. •Provide strategic leadership across cloud security, vulnerability management, and the broader Information Security program, ensuring our capabilities evolve as GameChanger grows. •Own our security operations and incident response program, including detection, on-call, escalation, and coordination with our parent-company security function. •Lead our governance, risk, and compliance program, including internal assessments such as NIST CSF 2.0, external assessments, risk management, and clear reporting to leadership. •Make pragmatic, risk-based decisions that balance security with product velocity and business needs, including determining when risks should be remediated, mitigated, or thoughtfully accepted. •Set direction for AI security and governance, including the secure adoption of AI tooling, security of AI-enabled product features, and responsible AI usage, partnering with AI enablement and governance stakeholders across the company. Qualifications: •Broad Information Security leadership experience, with meaningful depth in Product and Application Security and experience partnering directly with software Engineering teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. •A track record of building, scaling, or significantly evolving an Information Security program and translating organizational risk into a clear strategy and multi-year roadmap. •Broad knowledge across cloud security, security operations and incident response, vulnerability management, and GRC. We don’t expect deep practitioner-level expertise in every domain you lead. •Strong security judgment and the ability to evaluate technical risk in business context, navigate tradeoffs, make clear recommendations, and drive decisions to completion. •A track record of building durable partnerships across Engineering, Product, Legal, executives, and other cross-functional teams, including navigating disagreement and influencing without relying solely on authority or escalation. •Excellent communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to translate complex security and technology topics into clear business implications for technical teams, executives, and other stakeholders. Compensation: •$220,000 - $240,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!