OUR TEAM
Kinship Technology team is growing fast and we are building disruptive technology that can make a better place for our pets and their pet parents. With scale, we are also looking to embed a security first mindset so that our customers and partners continue to focus on enjoying their lives with their pets and trust us to secure their information with us to provide them the best possible experience across all Kinship brands and properties.

HOW YOU’LL HELP EVERYONE PET PARENT LIKE A PRO
As the Director of Information Security, you will help identify, manage and own all internal as well as external information security demands as well as compliance needs. As Kinship continues to grow and scale, this Director will identify the next level of hires as needed to bolster our infosec needs. You will introduce, socialize and champion frameworks for managing risks, audits, compliances, change management, incident response/remediation in addition to other information security duties. You will partner closely with Kinship legal team as well as Mars Petcare and Mars information security teams to understand any changes in the compliance needs and translate them into execution workstreams while partnering closely with other technology leaders in engineering as well as IT across global Kinship brands and properties to enable successful delivery. Key responsibilities include:

• Own information security across all global Kinship properties and brands
• Partner with legal, data, engineering and IT teams to drive various governance and compliance needs
• Inspire and enforce sound infosec hygiene across all vulnerable touch points
• Educate, coach our internal associates on best practices around information security, data privacy, data security etc.
• Oversee information security processes and implementation of policies
• Responsible for security metrics to ensure proper service levels are maintained
• As a core part of the tech leadership team, partner with other tech and engineering functions while maintaining high accountability and a keen eye towards reusability, efficiency and scale
• Prioritize the organization’s vulnerabilities and define the ideal security posture to protect all assets, clients, and employees
• Responsible successful third-party independent audits of our information security

THE PRO WE’RE LOOKING FOR
As Kinship people, we have three pillars that set out how we aim to be--in our everyday work, and in how we approach each other. We call these our Cultural Pillars. In all of the roles that we hire for, we look for people who are Optimistic, Purposefully Inquisitive, and Open to All. And for this role, you’ll need these skills to knock it out of the dog park:

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES:

• You Have Courage: a willingness to bring forth a new idea, engaging others across Kinship to support you, and taking risks and action will full accountability
• You Learn at Pace: a consistent and fast work ethic to meet growth goals, and the ability to evolve and pivot quickly from what you’ve learned
• You Value Difference: a genuine belief in inclusion and diversity is in your DNA, and it shows up in your work, and how you work.
• You are pragmatic thinker and outcome driven collaborator
• You are a coach and sees importance to mentor junior engineers
• You are able to go technically deep as well as cover a wide range of shared engineering capabilities

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• 12+ years of experience in software development with at least 8+ years of experience leading information security success across small and large organizations
• Deep Cloud Security (AWS, GCP or Azure) experience
• Current security knowledge across industry standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO, SOC2, CISSP, OSCP, CBEST, NIST)
• Requires advance to expert level knowledge and understanding of information security architecture, information security technologies, systems design, integration of systems, and networking
• Experience must include tools for maintaining security, assessing and evaluating security, and performing security incident forensic work.
• Leadership experience in managing multiple geographically dispersed technical staff and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
• Excellent grasp of modern cloud friendly technologies build over multiple years of rigorous and progressive hands-on experience
• Prior hands on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure or comparable public cloud
• Deep understanding of architectural tradeoffs optimized for scale and throughput especially with security lens
• Experience with human health or related disruptive domain or pet tech is a big plus

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