Chief Information Security Officer, AlphaSense
$275-345k
Market intelligence and search platform
Posted today
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$275-345k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organize the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field; Master's degree or MBA preferred
- Experience: Minimum 10-15 years of experience in cybersecurity, with 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Technical Skills: Extensive experience in cybersecurity, data protection regulations and industry best practices. Proficiency in cybersecurity tools, technologies, and frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
- Industry Certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP, and other relevant cybersecurity certifications
- Leadership Qualities: Proven experience in leading and managing security teams. Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, planning, and decision-making skills
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Strategic Planning: Ability to develop and execute security strategies aligned with organizational goals. Experience in vendor management, contract negotiation, and budget management
- Business Acumen: Strong business acumen and understanding of the company's industry, market, and competitive landscape. A forward thinker with a startup commercial mindset with strong IT controls
- Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with the latest trends, developments, and best practices in cybersecurity
What the job involves
- Reports to: CTO
- AlphaSense is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer to ensure the security, efficiency, and effectiveness of our information technology (IT) infrastructure, systems, and data
- He Chief Security Officer will safeguard our digital assets, drive innovation and efficiency, and ensure alignment between IT Security and business objectives
- Additionally, the Chief Security Officer will oversee CloudOps to manage the security, delivery, optimization, and performance of workloads running in cloud environments
- Develop and implement comprehensive information security policies, procedures, and standards to protect the organization's data and information assets
- Monitor and assess potential security risks and vulnerabilities, and implement measures to mitigate them
- Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, standards, and industry best practices related to information security
- Ensure successful compliance audits across SOC2, ISO and others that are typical for public companies
- Lead the organization's cybersecurity efforts, including the development and implementation of cybersecurity programs, technologies, and controls
- Coordinate incident response and management in the event of a cybersecurity breach or incident
- Foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness and training among employees
- The CISO must design and implement comprehensive security strategies for cloud environments, including evaluating the IT threat landscape and devising policies to reduce risk
- Cloud-native and third-party monitoring tools for threat detection
- Intrusion detection and prevention systems
- Incident response plans specific to cloud environments
- Technology Implementation: The CISO leads the adoption of modern security practices including:
- Zero trust model implementation
- Security integration in DevOps pipeline
- AI and machine learning for threat detection
- The CISO ensures cloud operations adhere to:
- Data protection laws (GDPR, HIPAA)
- Industry-specific regulations
- Regular security audits
- Reporting requirements to senior management
- Develop and execute the organization's security strategy and roadmap in alignment with its business objectives and goals
- Identify and prioritize security initiatives and projects that deliver the greatest value to the organization
- Ensure effective governance, budgeting, and resource allocation for security projects and initiatives
- Evaluate, select, and manage relationships with vendors, suppliers, and service providers to ensure quality, value, and compliance with contractual agreements
- Negotiate contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) with vendors to optimize costs and service delivery
- Drive the adoption of cutting-edge technologies that facilitate efficiency and competitive advantage
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing security team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
- Provide mentoring, coaching, and professional development opportunities to team members to enhance their skills and capabilities
- Deploy productivity tools including the latest generative AI tools for typical Security and support activities
- Collaborate with executive leadership, business units, and other stakeholders to understand their security needs, priorities, and concerns
- Communicate security strategies, initiatives, and performance metrics to stakeholders in a clear, concise, and timely manner
- Create training materials and collaborate with training program directors on the security and privacy of data and assets within the organization
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain : financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it is now setting its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Customer obsession - We measure ourselves against a simple yardstick: do our clients rave about us?
- Passion for product - Building a powerful yet simple and beautiful product is in our DNA
- Results - We value execution and outcomes over appearance and office politics. It’s that simple
- Diversity of perspective - Great ideas come from everywhere and anywhere
- Think big - We believe AlphaSense can change the game, and possibly the world
- Ownership - As owners of AlphaSense, it’s everyone’s job to ensure we do great work - and to always look for opportunities to do better
- Acceleration - We’re a fast-growing and fast-moving company. Do it, iterate, and try again
- Trust - We trust our colleagues to do what’s right and what’s best for the company
- Teamwork - Helping our colleagues succeed always comes first. We are serious about our work - and have fun too
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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