Director of Information Security, Panorama Education
$202.5k
+ Annual bonuses or commission awards + Equity awards
All-in-one educational data platform
Open for applications
All-in-one educational data platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$202.5k
+ Annual bonuses or commission awards + Equity awards
201-500 employees
Company mission
To improve student outcomes by helping schools and districts act on data.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in information security roles, including responsibility for audits, vendor reviews, and program-level decisions
- Expertise in Platform and Application Security with strong GRC, Security Operations, and Enterprise Security experience
- Extensive knowledge of information security, including deep expertise in security policy, risk management, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance regulations
- General knowledge of FERPA, PPRA, and COPPA
- Experience preparing organizations for SOC2
- The ability to learn quickly and hit the ground running
- Strong communication skills
- Demonstrated desire to be a continuous learner
What the job involves
- Panorama is seeking a Information Security DIrector to lead and continuously improve our security program
- This role sits at the intersection of policy, compliance, engineering, client enablement, and business risk management
- The position requires a thoughtful, strategic, and hands-on professional who can manage competing priorities, adapt to shifting client expectations, and ensure Panorama continues to earn and maintain the trust of school districts nationwide
- In this mission-driven environment centered on equity and student outcomes, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the evolving security posture of an AI-forward company serving enterprise-level education clients
- This highly cross-functional role provides broad organizational visibility, influence, and ownership of a security program that is both mature and evolving, with meaningful connections to teams across Sales, Client Success, Legal, IT, and Engineering
- Own and evolve Panorama’s security program, ensuring high standards across compliance, vendor and tool reviews, secure operational practices, incident response, and documentation
- Maintain and renew existing certifications, such as SOC 2 Type 2, while preparing for future certifications, including support for associated activities such as cyber insurance renewals, policy updates, audit evidence gathering, and internal assessments
- Own Panorama’s security posture representation in client-facing materials such as RFPs, procurement checklists, and due diligence questionnaires—scaling up to lead more involved efforts such as third-party penetration testing when required by strategic accounts
- Create and maintain clear, externally consumable summaries of our security practices, helping Sales and Client Success accelerate deals and retain client confidence
- Equip senior leaders with a clear view of security posture and progress by synthesizing operational data—including KPIs—into briefings that support planning, prioritization, and investment decisions
- Refine and execute processes for secure evaluation of new vendors, integrations, AI applications, browser extensions, and system-level tools—ensuring thoughtful adoption of tools while preserving a strong security posture
- Guide Panorama’s secure and responsible use of AI, including product integrations, employee tools, and external messaging around security implications
- Sustain Panorama’s strong international compliance posture, particularly around client-specific data residency requirements
- Lead annual security awareness training and other internal enablement activities to promote a security-conscious culture and behavior across the organization
- Continuously review and improve internal security policies and practices to stay aligned with client expectations, compliance standards, and industry best practices
Our take
Educational data is invaluable in ensuring that students are meeting their potential - data such as attendance, behaviour, and grades. Educational professionals typically collect and aggregate this data across spreadsheets, but the time-consuming process of turning this mass of data into actionable insights often leads to it not being analyzed often or at all.
Panorama Education provides an all-in-one educational data platform for schools, featuring unified data entry and dashboards for the analysis of student information. The platform is fragmented into sections on student success, social-emotional learning, feedback surveys and positive behaviour, and provides personalized professional development experiences for teachers to help them better understand how to act on data.
Whilst educational data platforms are nothing new, Panorama Education has taken a smart approach by focussing on providing data entry, analysis, and professional development in a unified, accessible and user-friendly platform. Its recent acquisition of Mesa Cloud, a graduation management system that ensures students are on track to receive a diploma, further enhances its offering with the ability to auto-monitor and flag students who are off-track.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$5m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $97.7m
Company benefits
- 2 Weeks a Year of Office Closure
- 16 Weeks of Parental Leave
- Wellness Reimbursements
- Option Grants
- Home Office Reimbursements
- Professional Development
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Choose Where You Work
Company HQ
Downtown Crossing, Boston, MA
Leadership
Aaron Feuer
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as a Legal Assistant for Bet Tzedek Legal Services, and was a Tour Guide for Yale University from 2010 to 2013.
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