Head of Security & Trust Engineering, Earnin
$360.5-440.6k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
Paycheck advance service for employees
Open for applications
Paycheck advance service for employees
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$360.5-440.6k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office (Mountain View, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
Earnin’s mission is to build a financial system that works for people.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership: You have built and grown globally distributed and high-performing teams
- Cybersecurity Experience: You have 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity leadership experience in the fintech industry and high velocity product companies
- Product Experience: You have 5+ years of demonstrated experience to deliver customer-centric products and services
- Expertise: You bring deep knowledge of security frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001/27002, etc.), cloud security, SecDevOps, and product engineering
- Skills: You excel at strategic thinking, problem-solving, and driving cross-functional alignment in a complex, dynamic environment
- Certifications: Preferred certifications include CISSP, CISM, or GIAC
What the job involves
- Security and trust Engineering are critical to EarnIn's STEPS (Security, Technology Enablement, and Platform Services) organization
- They ensure that our products and platforms are secure, resilient, and trusted by millions in a fast-paced industry
- This team has domain responsibilities for cybersecurity detection and response, security engineering, product security, consumer identity and access management (CIAM), and trust engineering
- As the Senior Director of Information Security, you will lead the development and execution of comprehensive security strategies that align with EarnIn’s mission and goals
- You will lead globally distributed teams and collaborate closely with other company leaders
- You will shape and execute a comprehensive security strategy, driving innovation and aligning security initiatives with business goals
- Your work will enable secure, seamless financial experiences for our community members and uphold our commitment to trust and integrity
- Define and Execute Strategy: You will develop and implement a forward-looking security strategy tailored to EarnIn's unique challenges, ensuring alignment with business priorities and regulatory requirements
- Drive a Security-First Culture: You will champion security as a core pillar of our products & services, fostering awareness and accountability across the organization
- Inspire and Lead: You will build and lead high-performing teams, empowering them to tackle complex security challenges and deliver impactful results
- Mentor and Develop Talent: You will invest in your team’s growth and foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and accountability
- Manage Resources Effectively: You will oversee budgets, allocate resources strategically, and optimize vendor partnerships
- Lead Detection and Response: You will oversee advanced threat detection and incident response programs, ensuring rapid identification, containment, and resolution of security incidents
- Enhance Threat Intelligence: You will build and maintain robust threat intelligence capabilities to stay ahead of evolving risks and bad actors targeting our community members and our business
- Strengthen Incident Response: You will continuously refine incident response processes and tools to improve efficiency and reduce risk & exposure to EarnIn
- Build Secure Systems: You will lead the design and implementation of secure cloud infrastructure, ensuring resilience against attacks while enabling scalability and innovation
- Scaling Security Organization: You will drive automation initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of security-related processes
- Collaborate Across Teams: You will collaborate closely with all EarnIn teams to embed security best practices into all aspects of our business
- Secure Products: You will ensure our products and services meet the highest security standards, integrating security throughout the product development lifecycle
- Proactively Reduce Risk: You will lead efforts to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and security weaknesses in our products before they impact our community members
- Ensure Compliance: You will partner with compliance teams to align product security with regulatory frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC2, NIST, and other industry standards
- Innovate Identity Solutions: You will develop secure, frictionless authentication and identity verification solutions that enhance consumer trust and experience
- Lead Collaboration: You will partner with product teams to deliver innovative, secure financial experiences
- Safeguard Customer Privacy: You will develop consumable solutions to ensure that our products & services comply with privacy laws while protecting sensitive customer data
- Ensure Data Integrity: You will lead initiatives to protect data integrity, confidentiality, and availability throughout the organization
Our take
Paying bills is an inevitable part of life, but paying them late or dipping into overdrafts can result in fees. This is the reality for millions of workers who have to wait for their pay checks to arrive – and the problem that companies like EarnIn are trying to solve. By allowing hourly workers access to their pay as it is earned rather than on a fixed date, it hopes to provide all Americans with the ability to deal with immediate costs without going into arrears.
Unlike competitors in this growing space such as Dave, Earnin charges no mandatory fees, instead gaining revenue through a voluntary tipping system. It also requires no credit checks to access its services, which puts it ahead of the growing number of digital banking solutions. This approach has garnered it a strong user base of over 300,000 business customers which offer Earnin as an employee benefit. Around 70 million paycheck advances were taken through the platform in 2022 alone, totalling $5 billion. Since then, this number has grown to an overall earnings access value of $15 billion.
Earnin is growing despite current difficulties in the wider tech landscape and is continuing to hire in all departments. It will continue to improve upon its offering and expand its network of businesses, aiming to give every employee in America control of the money they've earned.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2018
$125m
SERIES C
Sep 2017
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $190.1m
Company benefits
- 401k
- FSA
- Mental health resources
- Employee Resource Groups
- Stipend for growth opportunities
- Pet friendly office
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Ownership
- Speed
- Impact
- Outstanding people
- Curious truth-seeking
- Multi-level thinking
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ram Palaniappan
(CEO)Was Senior Operations Manager at Reflect.com, a P&G company. Served as President of UniRush from 2004 to 2012.
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