Director of Platform Security, Gemini
$230.8-355k
+ Discretionary annual bonus + Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
2+ days a week in office
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
Open for applications
Cryptocurrency exchange platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$230.8-355k
+ Discretionary annual bonus + Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock the next era of financial, creative and personal freedom
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of leadership experience for cloud-native engineering and/or security teams, with a strong preference for Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based organizations
- 10+ years of direct, technical experience in relevant roles (e.g., Platform Engineering, Security)
- Strong experience in AWS, EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
- Experience leveraging industry security frameworks & standards that act as the basis of maturing the overall security program and enable successful business outcomes
- Comfortable with hiring & scaling a team
- Prior success in leading a team through organizational change management, with a strong preference for start-up experience in a technology-centric business
- Able to easily communicate with technical stakeholders at their level, hearing their feedback and translating those needs or concerns into program-level outcomes
- Pragmatic about security requirements, ignoring “best practices” that don’t make sense to the needs of the business by leveraging your team’s expertise for decision making
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with an attention to detail
What the job involves
- Gemini takes a cloud-first approach to our services, platforms, and vendors, allowing the organization to continue scaling with hypergrowth hiring, innovative product development, and demanding customer needs
- To achieve that scale securely, Gemini has a dedicated Platform Security team whose mission is to enable the business to achieve secure-by-design architectures, implement best-in-class security technologies, and help our engineering partners to achieve security success easily & confidently
- To further that mission, we’re looking for a new leader to join the existing team to take our vision, strategy, internal partnerships, business alignment, & technical expertise to the next stage of maturity
- At Gemini, our best leaders lead from the trenches—we need this Director to remain hands-on, contributing code and technical solutions alongside their team as needed to unblock work, maintain technical context, and lead by example
- Strategic and technical leadership of Gemini's Platform Security team
- Align team-wide strategy with the needs of the business, internal partners, & peer Security leadership
- Enable the ongoing success & growth of the team through creation of hiring plans and hands-on mentorship
- Establish a Platform Security roadmap for initiatives that will provide ever-increasing maturity of capabilities for stakeholders, while also reducing toil through automation
- Foster trust-centric relationships with key partner teams, ensuring that their voices are heard and needs are being met, while achieving excellent security outcomes together
- Lead the development of security policies, procedures, standards, & guidelines that will guide functional security outcomes with all GRC and Audits needs being met
- Determine program KPIs that will meaningfully highlight where we’re succeeding, or falling short of, the mission we aim to accomplish for the business
- Provide guidance through lived-experience and industry awareness on the different approaches to architecture, security engineering, and business-achievement goals
- Define a customer-first process, choosing to provide self-service solutions that minimize friction, create agility, and provide value-oriented ways to solve problems
- Manage relevant third-party vendor relationships, leading the determination of when & why to “build” vs. “buy” in response to gaps in capabilities the business may have
Our take
Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that's known for offering excellent security as well as being available across the US, including New York - a state not often covered by crypto exchanges.
As a trading platform, Gemini is one of many, but a dedication to innovation and a commitment to working within FCA regulations are what make it stand out from the crowd. After acquiring Blockrize in 2021, the company launched a credit card for US customers that enables them to earn a small percentage of spending back in bitcoin rewards. It also launched the Gemini dollar, a 1:1 USD-backed stablecoin, that combines the price stability of the US dollar with the technological advantages of a cryptocurrency.
The crypto exchange market is crowded with exchange platforms, and Gemini's competitors include giants like Coinbase. However, by operating within regulations and maintaining its status as a registered digital asset service provider in Europe (with plans to expand further in the region very soon), Gemini is in a strong position to face the continued crackdown on unauthorized activity in this market and make a space for itself in the DeFi future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2021
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Retirement plan matching
- Generous parental leave
- Comprehensive health plans
- Training and development
- Health and wellness perks
- Community events
Company HQ
New York, NY
Leadership
Tyler Winklevoss
(Co-Founder & CEO)Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Cameron in 2014.
Cameron Winklevoss
(Co-Founder & President)Principal at Winklevoss Capital. Studied Economics at Harvard. Notorious for their role in the founding of Facebook, they co-founded Gemini with brother Tyler in 2014.
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