Head of Infosec, Lendable
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2-5 days a week in office
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Job no longer available
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- Building a team: You have prior management experience and a proven track record of growing a collaborative and cross-functional Security team
- Scaling AppSec: You've owned and scaled a robust Application Security program, including secure development, code analysis, and threat modelling
- Running Security Operations: You have deep experience overseeing a Security Operations function, managing monitoring, incident response, and vulnerability management
- Driving GRC: You're an expert in managing compliance frameworks such as PCI, GDPR, SOC2, and ISO 27001, and you're skilled at preparing for audits
- Vendor Security: You have led vendor security analysis, including due diligence and ongoing monitoring
- Collaboration & Execution: You can define and enforce security policies while working effectively with cross-functional teams like IT Ops and Platform Engineering
- Stakeholder Management: You're adept at providing assurance to stakeholders, customers, and regulators
- Risk Leadership: You are comfortable escalating material risks directly to VPs, the CTO, and other risk functions
- Cultural Influence: You have a passion for promoting a security-first culture through training, awareness, and secure-by-design practices
- Adaptability: You thrive in a modern Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD) and AI environment, staying current with industry trends
What the job involves
- We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes
- Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1
- Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quo
- Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting
- We're looking for a Head of InfoSec to champion security across Lendable, ensuring our products, platforms, and processes remain secure as we scale
- This is a high-impact leadership role with broad responsibility across application security, operations, and governance
- As Head of InfoSec, you'll be the champion of security across the organisation, balancing business growth with operational resilience
- You'll shape how we embed security into every part of our product and operations, and play a critical role in building trust with customers, partners, and regulators
- You will lead a team of exceptional security engineers, delivering a technical roadmap that you will shape
- Application Security (AppSec): Driving secure development practices, code analysis, and threat modelling
- Security Operations (SOC): Overseeing monitoring, incident response, vulnerability management, and operational resilience
- Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC): Leading our efforts to achieve and maintain compliance with PCI, GDPR, SOC2, and ISO27001
- Vendor Security: Spearheading due diligence and monitoring of third parties, integrated with our Vendor Governance Forum
- Policies & Assurance: Defining and enforcing security standards, collaborating with IT Ops and Platform Engineering on execution, and providing assurance to stakeholders, customers, and regulators
- Risk Management: Escalating material risks directly to the CTO and other risk functions
- Culture & Training: Promoting a secure-by-design culture through training, awareness, and best practices across the company
Application process
- Intro Call with People Team: A brief conversation to get to know you and your background
- Call with VP of Technology: A deeper dive into your experience and how it aligns with our technical vision
- Onsite Interview: A deeper session where you’ll meet with several team members and stakeholders to discuss your technical expertise, management philosophy, and approach to delivery and collaboration. Don’t worry, we won’t ask you to code
- Call with CTO: A final conversation to discuss the strategic impact of the role
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lendable competes with banks, other lenders, and consumer finance companies to make finance and credit easier to access for all consumers. Streamlining the loan application process, the company cuts personalised rates and fund transfers from days to minutes.
Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and strong financials. Part of its success is due to its funding coming from institutional investors. Lendable originates and services its loans on behalf of institutional investors, but doesn't hold them on its own balance sheet.
Growing insolvencies will worry all lending platforms, but Lendable looks well-placed to weather any credit storm given its substantial debt financing. With fresh funding, this profitable fintech unicorn is poised to make credit access easier for consumers. And with the launch of two new products in the US, Lendable is certainly in a good position for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$277.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $287m
Company benefits
- 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
- 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
- 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
- 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
- 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
- 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
- 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- 🧮 Pension
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
- 🏋️♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Martin Kissinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.
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