Nova Credit's Information Security Lead

As Nova Credit’s Information Security Lead, you will be a hands-on, all-rounder security practitioner at the heart of our InfoSec function. You will partner closely with the Director of Information Security to mature our security program, moving fluidly between deep-in-the-weeds technical work (configuring tooling, hardening systems, investigating alerts, automating controls) and the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) work that earns us the trust of some of the world’s largest financial institutions (responding to customer security questionnaires, supporting SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, executing on our control sets, and running third-party risk reviews).

This role is built for someone who is happy doing both. You bring an engineer’s instinct for solving security problems with configuration, and the practitioner’s patience for the questionnaire and audit work that proves out our controls. You will work cross-functionally with the rest of the company, while you will own meaningful technical and program-level initiatives from your first quarter.

This is a hybrid role (3 days per week in office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays) based in the New York City Metropolitan area., * Familiarize yourself with our control sets, frameworks, and policies (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, internal standards) and our existing inventory of customer-facing security commitments.

• Get hands-on with our security tooling stack, EDR, MDM, SSO/IAM, DLP, cloud security posture management, etc.
• Shadow incoming customer security questionnaires and due diligence reviews to learn the cadence, the source-of-truth artifacts, and our standard responses.
• Pick up your first hands-on tickets, things like endpoint hardening, MDM tuning, IAM cleanup, or evidence collection, to build operational muscle memory.
• Meet your stakeholders across the rest of the company.

WITHIN THE FIRST QUARTER, YOU’LL:

• Start to own customer security questionnaires and due diligence reviews end-to-end, from intake, to evidence pulls, to clean responses, to the follow-up calls.
• Configure, tune, and operate security tooling across our stack (EDR, MDM, SSO/IAM, DLP, Google Workspace settings).
• Triage and respond to security alerts, bug bounty reports, and internal escalations; document repeatable response runbooks for what you handle.
• Contribute to third-party risk reviews of new vendors and re-reviews of existing critical suppliers.
• Surface and propose fixes for at least one process gap or control weakness you identify during onboarding.

WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR, YOU’LL:

• Own an agreed-on slice of Nova Credit’s security program end-to-end, e.g., IAM/SSO, endpoint and MDM, vulnerability management, customer-trust/questionnaire program, or third-party risk, with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Own customer security questionnaires and due diligence reviews end-to-end, from intake to evidence pulls, to clean responses, and attending follow-up calls.
• Drive at least one significant hardening or modernization initiative
• Be a go-to internal expert for technical security questions from Engineering, Product and Data Science
• Partner with the Director of Information Security on roadmap, prioritization, and how our Information Security program scales as Nova grows

• Experience: 3-6+ years across information security, security engineering, cloud security, or technical GRC roles, ideally with at least some time in a high-growth fintech, financial services, or regulated SaaS environment.
• Hands-on technical depth: Comfortable configuring and operating modern security tooling such asEDR, MDM, SSO/IAM, DLP, and cloud security tooling. Knowledge of Jamf, SentinelOne, Okta are a plus
• Cloud security: Working knowledge of AWS security, IAM, networking, KMS, logging, and common misconfiguration risks. You can reason about real architecture and point out where the risks are.
• Foundational concepts: Solid grasp of networking, identity, cryptography, secure SDLC, and web application security. You don’t need to be an offensive security specialist, but you should know how attackers think.
• GRC / audit fluency: Direct experience with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 are a plus.
• Communication: You can explain a technical risk to engineering team members, write a clean policy, and disagree productively with an Engineering lead in the same week.
• All-rounder mindset: You are equally willing to dig into a misconfigured IAM policy and fill out a 200-question bank questionnaire. You don’t silo the work into “technical” and “non-technical.”

$118,400 - 140,600 USD per year

The above compensation range is for United States-based candidates and is dependent on individual experience, skills, education, location, and qualifications. We consider all elements of compensation to be a part of the value we provide to Novans. This may include base salary, equity grants, incentive compensation for eligible roles, professional development, flexible PTO, and tenure rewards. In the U.S., our benefits package includes comprehensive and generously subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance options, along with a company-sponsored 401k plan, parental leave of absence, sick time off, and paid time off vacation.