Vice President of Security and IT, Dashlane
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3 days a week in office
Password manager app
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Password manager app
201-500 employees
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More information about location
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make security simple for millions of organisations and their people.
Role
Who you are
- Education in technology, with a strong emphasis on Security
- Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role
- Technical Skills: extensive experience in cybersecurity, IT, and infrastructure management. Proficiency in cybersecurity tools, technologies, and frameworks, including compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- English proficiency to communicate complex technical issues
- Hands-on with scripting languages to build or adapt IT and security tools. Ability to review security in code in various programming languages
- Leadership Qualities: Proven experience in leading and managing IT and security teams. Negotiation and influencing skills to drive team members and stakeholders to achieve expected results. 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 IT and security strategies aligned with organizational and business 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
- Continuous Learning: Commitment to staying current with the latest trends, developments, and best practices in IT and cybersecurity
- Proven ability to move forward with limited guidance, taking ownership of and responsibility for your work
- Appetite to innovate and find out-of-the-box solutions to complex security challenges
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced VP of Security & IT to oversee our Security and internal IT teams at Dashlane. In your role, you will ensure we maintain the highest level of security for our product, our customers and our company, as well as manage internal IT systems for the company
- Security is a cornerstone of the Dashlane product, and as such you will play an instrumental role in keeping our customers safe and our company secure
- You will work alongside a broad mix of stakeholders including product managers, engineers, sales, marketing, legal to ensure we keep raising the bar on security while serving our business needs
- As part of your scope, you will supervise our internal IT systems and activities such as help desk, support, development and maintenance of all hardware and software technology in use by employees internally at Dashlane
- As the Security and IT leader, you will be a key member of the engineering team, directly reporting to Dashlane CTO
- You will manage our Security and IT teams globally across our different offices
- You will be in charge of ensuring we keep the Dashlane product and internal systems secure and efficient, by defining and implementing the Security Strategy and Policies, providing recommendations and guidance to the Company regarding Information Security, User Confidentiality and Privacy, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Compliance and associated risks
- Drive the Security strategy as a core feature of the Dashlane Product and provide leadership and directions for implementing and validating the Secure Development Cycle. This Strategic Plan will have to be aligned with business objectives
- Manage the Security of our customer-facing infrastructure (AWS) as well as the internal IT infrastructure
- Conduct security audits on our product and internal and external IT and ensure mitigations and remediations (including penetration testing, bug bounties, monitoring, and system auditing…)
- Manage Compliance and Regulatory requirements
- Evaluate and report the Company’s information security and privacy risk status to the Executive team
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert and promote a culture of information security and privacy awareness
- Supervise IT operations across our offices in Paris, Lisbon, and New York and processes related to physical and general security
- Hire, manage, and develop the Security and IT staff
- Ensure business continuity and disaster recovery
- Manage and forecast Security and IT budget. Manage key vendor relationships
- Represent Dashlane as the Security and IT leader with customers, partners, and other stakeholders in the market
- Fulfill other information security and privacy duties as necessary to support the Company
- You will be based in Paris, with English as your working language
Our take
The logins to our online accounts are constantly at risk of being hacked. For both individuals and businesses, cyberattacks are an invasion of privacy that can have both financial implications and cause damage to reputations. Creating more unique and secure passwords can then become harder to remember and more complicated to enter.
Dashlane is a web and mobile app that simplifies password management for people and businesses. It makes the internet easier by autofilling passwords, payments, and personal information. With 15+ million users from over 20,000 businesses across 200 countries currently using its software, the company continuously scans over 20 billion hack/breach records each day.
The company faces stiff competition from the likes of LastPass, 1Password, and Bitwarden. To stay price competitive in the market, Dashlane launched a reduced plan with the essential features and in 2023, launched the Dashlane Confidential SSO (Single Sign-On), further differentiating itself from its competitors. They also have innovative tools and a user-friendly interface which will help it stand out from the crowd.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
32% female employees
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2019
$110m
SERIES D
May 2016
$23.4m
SERIES C
Total funding: $163.4m
Company benefits
- Mental health services through Spring Health and well-being days
- Mentorship program - select your mentor from our internal pool and continue your learning path!
- Comprehensive health coverage, including dependents
- Unlimited PTO
- Betterment 401(k) retirement plan
- Paid holidays and sick leave
- Donation matching program - give back to the community and support actions that lead to positive social impact under the historically marginalized communities
- Every donation will be matched by Dashlane, up to $500 per year
- Weekly lunch in the office and monthly happy hour
- Team buildings & seasonal social events and many more
Company values
- Customer > Company
- Transparency and Trust
- Ownership
- Impatiently Ambitious
- Inclusivity, Empathy, and Humility
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jean Guillou
(Co-Founder)Having studied IT at CentraleSupélec, Jean co-founded Dashlane in April 2009, serving as Software Architect. Since June 2019, he has worked as VP of Engineering.
Guillaume Maron
(Co-Founder and VP of Engineering)Having been a Security Consultant at Solucom for 10 months, Guillaume co-founded Dashlane, first serving as Core Tech Architect. In 2014, they became VP of Engineering.
People progressing
Ciars joined Dashlane as VP of People in September 2017, having served for 3 years as Head of People & Culture at Compass. In August 2018, she was promoted to Chief People Officer.
Frederic joined Dashlane in 2015 as CTO, having worked at Betclic Everest Group and IBM. He has worked simultaneously as President of Dashlane SAS in France since August 2017.
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