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Director of Security
Biorender
CanadaRemote2mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Experienced security leader, focused on user experience and thoughtful in building an impactful and efficient security culture
- Strategic builder who thinks long-term but will get in the weeds when needed
- Business-focused and empathetic, someone who earns trust across engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and customers by being a partner, not a bottleneck
- Passionate about the intersection of security and scientific research and understands why enterprise customers in pharma, biotech, and academia have heightened data sensitivity
- Partner with engineering to evolve our approach for secure software development using AI coding tools and the security of our customer-facing products
- Maintain and advance our security and compliance posture; evaluate other certifications as a competitive differentiator for enterprise deals
- Scale our security function through automation as much as possible
- Lead our security operations function: auditing, internal documentation, incident response, and company-wide security awareness
- Own BioRender’s security narrative for enterprise customers, including our Trust Center, security documentation, and customer-facing security reviews
- Instill a culture of security across the company, and integrate security and data privacy into processes and decision making
- 7+ years in security leadership, including experience building or significantly scaling a security program at a fast-growing SaaS company
- Deep experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar compliance certifications
- Demonstrated understanding of appsec, AI product, and AI software development security risks and how to mitigate them
- A preference for automation over manual scaling
- Strong track record partnering with product and engineering teams in a governance / oversight model, setting policy and guardrails while engineering executes
- Experience with enterprise security requirements in regulated or research-intensive industries
- Excellent at rolling out organizational change and getting buy-in across technical and non-technical teams
- We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
- BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
- Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
- We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.
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