Chief Technology Officer, SecurityScorecard
$200-300k
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
Open for applications
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$200-300k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organizations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a technology leader with a track record of success in complex B2B environments, ideally within cybersecurity or adjacent fields
- Extensive experience as a CTO, SVP of Engineering, or a similar senior leadership role, ideally within the cybersecurity, B2B SaaS, or big data domains
- Strong track record in building and scaling highly secure, fault-tolerant, and performant big data infrastructure with significant complexity
- Deep technical expertise in software engineering, architecture, data science, AI, and cybersecurity
- Exceptional leadership skills managing large remote teams (100+), including software engineers and technical experts across various domains
- Collaborative approach with a history of working closely with product and executive leadership to align technology with business strategy
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical vision and strategy to diverse audiences
- Visionary Leader: Capable of setting a clear technical vision and driving strategic initiatives that align with company goals. Thinks ahead and anticipates future technology trends and needs
- Execution-Oriented: Highly focused on delivering results, with an internal drive to build, scale, and optimize technology infrastructure that meets the demands of a complex, data-driven B2B environment
- Bias to Action: Proactively seeks solutions with a sense of urgency, addressing challenges head-on and driving projects forward without waiting for others to step in
- Operational Excellence: Strong emphasis on operational rigor, with a methodical approach to managing large-scale engineering, architecture, and data science teams. Skilled in optimizing processes for maximum efficiency
- Driving Accountability: Holds self and team accountable for commitments, results, and high performance. Instills a culture of ownership and accountability, ensuring that goals are met and standards are maintained
- Collaborative Mindset: Works effectively across functions, fostering partnerships with Product, Security, and other key teams to ensure seamless execution of the technology roadmap
- Team Builder: Exceptional at hiring, developing, and scaling high-performing remote teams. Has a strong playbook for attracting top talent and building a cohesive, innovative technology organization
- Strategic Thinker: Balances day-to-day execution with long-term strategic planning. Comfortable navigating complex decisions and setting priorities that drive company-wide impact
- Technical Depth and Breadth: Deep understanding of software engineering, cybersecurity, big data, and emerging technologies, with the ability to dive deep when necessary
- High Standards: Sets and expects a high bar for quality, performance, and security across all technology initiatives
- Growth Mindset: Open to new ideas and diverse perspectives, constantly seeking ways to improve and innovate within the technology landscape
- Effective Communicator: Articulates technical vision and strategy clearly to stakeholders at all levels, including non-technical audiences, ensuring alignment and understanding
- Analytical Problem Solver: Strong analytical skills to assess complex technical challenges and deliver innovative, creative solutions
What the job involves
- The CTO will play a pivotal role in SecurityScorecard’s growth, serving as the accountable leader for building and scaling a world-class technology organization
- This individual will be responsible for driving and executing the technical vison & strategy to deliver highly secure, performant, and scalable solutions
- The CTO will be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform, fostering innovation, and ensuring our technology remains at the forefront of the industry
- Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the company’s technology vision, ensuring alignment with business goals and long-term strategy
- Technology Oversight: Lead and manage a technology organization of approximately 125 professionals, including 80+ software engineers. Provide guidance and mentorship to team leaders across engineering, architecture, data science, CISO, and threat research
- Big Data Infrastructure: Develop and maintain a highly secure, scalable, and efficient big data infrastructure tailored for complex B2B environments. Prioritize fault tolerance, performance, and security
- Collaboration with CPO: Work closely with the Chief Product Officer and the executive team to plan and execute SecurityScorecard’s roadmap
- Security Focus: Oversee the company's cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring best-in-class practices are integrated into every layer of the tech stack. Provide leadership in threat research and intelligence
- Innovation & Execution: Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and excellence in execution. Champion the adoption of new technologies and best practices to maintain SecurityScorecard’s leadership in the market
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a key technology advocate within the company and with external stakeholders. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences, including board members and customers
- Data Science and AI: Lead the integration of advanced data science and AI capabilities into the company’s products and services, driving innovation and leveraging data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and product functionality
- Culture Carrier: Embody and promote SecurityScorecard’s values of bias to action, solutions focused, resilience, customer obsessed, OneScorecard), setting the tone for a positive, inclusive, and high-performance culture across the technology teams. Act as a role model in driving accountability, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence
Our take
Organizations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities, and therefore costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organizations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue growing and rewarding cutting-edge security solutions. It looks set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $294.4m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company values
- Solutions focused
- Customer centric
- One Scorecard
- Resilient
- Embody #SecurityDNA
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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