Security & Compliance Lead, Spade
$150-170k
+ Equity Grant
Financial data enrichment API
Job no longer available
Financial data enrichment API
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$150-170k
+ Equity Grant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower customers to uncover the truth hidden within their transaction data.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in security, compliance, or risk, preferably in a startup environment
- 2+ years of experience in fintech or financial services
- Deep understanding of cloud-native security (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and secure development practices
- Experience obtaining and managing compliance certifications (SOC2, PCI, ISO, GDPR, etc)
- Experience supporting sales in a security and compliance role, including completing vendor due diligence questionnaires and diligence calls
- Familiarity with Vanta or similar compliance management platforms
- Strong communication skills and a track record of cross-functional influence
- Nice to have: experience with payments and payments-related security practices
What the job involves
- We're looking for our first Security & Compliance hire to help make security a strategic growth lever for Spade
- We provide critical financial infrastructure, and our customers demand rigor, resilience, and credibility
- In this role, you’ll set the vision and build the foundation for security across the organization, partnering with cross-functional leadership to drive best practices in secure development and operations
- Leading security strategy and functional controls oversight
- Developing core policies, controls, and processes to support audit and regulatory requirements
- Coordinating and managing certification processes and external audits (including but not limited to SOC2, pen tests, GDPR, etc, etc)
- Supporting revenue growth by completing customer security and compliance questionnaires
- Advising the engineering team on embedding security best practices into cloud architecture and development workflows
- Serving as the primary point of contact for security with customers, partners, and regulators
- Creating external facing content on security posture and measures (e.g., whitepapers)
Our take
Founded in 2021, Spade is a universal transaction enrichment API built for fintech companies. Often there is a vast amount of data that cannot be tracked or is not provided within transactions. Sometimes the name used isn't the company name, the geo data is different to where you paid etc. So this is where Spade wants to build a new generation in fintech infrastructure.
The company has developed an API that enhances all the data details around financial activity, fraud detection, merchant matching, and category organisation. These are all super appealing features for Spade customers to get to know their users’ spending habits better and keep internet banking secure.
Spade attracted considerable Series A funding when it was just two years old, demonstrating the need for this product in the market. With this funding, the company has worked on expanding its team and developed its merchant intelligence product and now boasts clients like Stripe, Bilt, Corpay, Mercury, and Unit.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2026
$40m
SERIES B
Dec 2023
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $62.4m
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Oban MacTavish
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Hubly. More recently worked as an Investment Analyst at Cove Street Capital (CSC).
Cooper Hart
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founded Spade in October 2021.
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