CLEAR makes life easier and more secure by using biometrics – your fingerprints, eyes and face – to confirm that you are you, and keep you moving. Imagine a world where you can do virtually everything you need to – breeze through the airport, buy a beer at the game, check-in at the doctor’s office, access your office building, and more – without ever pulling out your wallet or phone. Now in 45+ airports and other venues nationwide, you are your ID, credit card, ticket, reservation and more with CLEAR.

We’re defining and leading an entirely new industry, moving quickly with data-informed decisions, obsessing over our customers, and investing in great people to lead the way. Recently named on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 List and winner of the SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, we’re working tirelessly to create frictionless customer experiences for our 3+ million members across the country.

We’re looking for a Vice President that will own Security Operations, partner effectively across the organization, and champion security initiatives. In this role, you will lead the team that is responsible for incident response, providing both overall strategy as well as day-to-day hands on operational oversight, investigation and escalation of events and incident triage.

What You Will Do:

•  Champion security initiatives and help drive operational implementations.
• Mentor and supervise junior staff
• Senior Leader in the Austin office responsible for driving CLEAR culture, building relationships and our employer brand within the Austin tech community.
• Triage and investigate security incidents
• Own, mature and lead Security Operations and Security Incident Response capability.
• Develop metrics and repeatable templates to keep a finger on the pulse of the organization’s threat posture and threat landscape.
• Actively lead CLEAR’s continuous improvement efforts in Security Operations, such as SIEM to SOAR and detection parity with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP and related frameworks, 
• Work cross functionally with security engineering and Cloud Infrastructure teams to influence security roadmap.
• Provide updates for Senior Leadership on Security Landscape and Security Operations Program. At the direction of the CSO, prepare updates and threat reports for the Board of Directors.
• Provide oversight, leadership and ongoing coaching to the Security Operations team.
• Improve security posture by ensuring timely event handling and reduction of the potential for future events
• Act as an IR lead throughout incident scenarios and provide subject matter expertise in cybersecurity incident response.
• Responsible for the successful execution of incident handling procedures as well as a direct response to security incidents.
• Keeping finger on the pulse of risks, threats, attacks and communicated on a frequent basis. Develop and track security metrics across the organization
• Collaborate across teams to ensure compliance with cybersecurity policies and developing reporting metrics to communicate the efficacy of tools and programs.

Who You Are:

• A thought leader in modern security operations
• 8+ years security operations experience with extensive practical experience leading security operations teams at scale. 
• Can balance being collaborative, open, and approachable while still being firm on security policies and in facilitating progress and compromise.
• Strong ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization; able to gain the trust of stakeholders.
• Defending organizations regulated under NIST 800-53, PCI, and HIPAA Controls
• Defended Cloud-Native organizations using cloud-first infrastructure tools i.e.Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless infrastructure . 
• AWS expertise, specifically in how these environments are attacked, protected etc. Strong knowledge of IAM, Crypto/PKI.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical findings or information to non-technical and executive audiences.
• Believe any process that is repeated may be a candidate for automation
• Strong knack for defining processes and working with cross-functional teams
• Process mapping, data-flow diagrammingDesign automated Security Operation and Security Incident Response Processes"
• Comfortable with scripting in Python 
• Deep knowledge of logging and data toolsets (Splunk, ELK, Syslog-ng)
• Experience utilizing NIST and MITRE frameworks as an operational lens
• Background in running security operations for consumer facing application
• OSCP Preferred