Head of Security and Technical Operations, Peerspace
$195-210k
+ Equity
Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
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Marketplace for hourly venue rentals
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$195-210k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring people together, starting with making it easy to find and book the perfect places to meet, create, and celebrate.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a leader who is passionate about building resilient systems, thrives under pressure, and is obsessive about protecting our platform and our customers with a sense of extreme ownership
- Experience: 7-10+ years of combined, hands-on experience in security operations, incident response, and/or technical operations/SRE. This includes at least 2+ years of formal people management experience, with a track record of hiring, mentoring, and leading high-performing technical teams
- Deep expertise in modern security operations (SecOps) in a cloud-native environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
- Hands-on experience with threat detection, SIEM, SOAR, and EDR/MDR tooling
- Proven track record of running a vulnerability management program (scanning, prioritization, remediation)
- Mastery of the security incident response lifecycle (detection, analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and post-mortem)
- Proven experience running a formal incident management process for non-security events (e.g., outages, performance degradation) and serving as an Incident Commander
- Experience managing a 24/7 technical operations/NOC function and serving as the final escalation point for customer-reported issues
- Strong familiarity with modern observability, monitoring, and alerting platforms (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty)
- A calm, decisive, and methodical demeanor, especially during high-stakes incidents
- A "player-coach" mentality, with the ability to lead strategy while also diving deep into technical details with your team
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to clearly articulate risk, impact, and remediation plans to technical peers and executive leadership
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
What the job involves
- As the Head of Security and Technical Operations, you will be a critical leader within our technology organization, reporting directly to the CTO
- This is a hands-on "player-coach" role responsible for building and leading the team that ensures our platform is both secure and reliable. You will own and mature two core functions: Security Operations (SecOps) and Technical Operations (NOC/SRE-lite)
- You will be the company’s chief incident commander, responsible for our end-to-end security posture—from threat detection and vulnerability management to incident response
- Crucially, you will apply that same operational rigor to our general production health, overseeing our response to all technical incidents, including outages, performance degradations, and functional issues escalated by our Customer Experience (CX) team.
- Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage, and mentor a high-performing team of security and operations engineers. You will be responsible for hiring, performance management, and the professional growth of your team, fostering a culture of ownership and operational excellence
- Own and execute our security operations strategy, including threat detection, monitoring, and logging
- Lead the security incident response (IR) process from detection to resolution and post-mortem, minimizing impact and driving preventative measures
- Manage our end-to-end vulnerability management program, working with engineering teams to ensure timely remediation
- Design, own, and manage the company-wide incident response process for all production issues (security, reliability, performance, functional)
- Serve as the primary Incident Commander during critical service disruptions
- Oversee the Technical Operations (NOC) function, acting as the final escalation point for our CX and engineering teams to ensure customer-reported issues are resolved swiftly
- Develop the technical roadmap, set priorities and deliverables, and manage on-call rotations for your team and the broader technology organization
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement by analyzing incident data and post-mortems to identify and eliminate root causes
- Partner with Engineering, Product, and CX leaders to ensure the platform is secure and reliable by design
- Report on key metrics (e.g., MTTR, MTTD, vulnerability counts, uptime) to the CTO and executive team
Our take
The growth rate of event and party space rentals is growing exponentially along with the everlasting need for exciting locations for film & TV productions. Peerspace is a marketplace for users to explore venues for both meeting and production needs. Likened to the Airbnb for hourly renting venues, the company has had around 3 million people bring their visions to life via Peerspace locations around the globe since founding in 2014.
Growing rapidly from the get go, Peerspace made its mission to find interesting spaces to market via it's site to encourage traffic from a certain demographic of creatives. The company’s 2023 rebrand has aligned the aesthetic of the company with its users. Fashion shoots, music videos and film shoots among other events like birthday parties are some of the exciting happenings inside the venues that Peerspace host on its site.
The company now stands as a leader in its market offering subscriptions like PeerspacePro which connects its agency partners to provide production crews with exclusive rentals and scouting support. The company’s customer base of Disney , Netflix and Vogue are just a few of the household names to use the service. We’re excited to see how the company continues to sift out the most exciting locations around the world and scale its endeavours.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$16m
SERIES B
May 2017
$11m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- 100% employee coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
- $500 annual professional development allowance
- Discount on all Peerspace bookings
- Laptop, high res display, and stipend to setup home office
- Monthly cell phone and internet credit
- Coworking membership if needed (in lieu of home office)
- Access to the Peerspace network of inspiring spaces to do your best work
- Flexible take it as you need it time off policy
- Wellness Fridays observed company wide
- Annual in-person, all company offsites and team-building events (in Peerspace locations, of course)
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kevin Yuann
(CEO)Joined Peerspace in 2024 as CEO. Previously they held the position of Chief Business officer at NerdWallet and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Visa.
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