$200,000 - $230,000 / year
Application Deadline: 9/16/2024
Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.
Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.
We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Vice President of Cybersecurity to lead our efforts in implementing a comprehensive zero-trust security framework, foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness, and manage incident response, risk assessment, mitigation strategies, security architecture design in the cloud and data centers, security governance, compliance, and customer-facing team management.
Key Responsibilities
As the Vice President of Cybersecurity, you will be responsible for:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive zero-trust security strategy to protect our digital infrastructure, data, and assets.
- Lead the design and implementation of zero-trust principles, ensuring access controls, network segmentation, and identity verification are integrated into all systems and processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure continuous monitoring, anomaly detection, and data protection.
- Leadership & Culture Development:
- Develop relationships cross functionally to understand business priorities and barriers, and work together to create plans that can be successfully executed.
- Foster a culture of cybersecurity awareness and best practices across the organization.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to the cybersecurity team, promoting professional growth and a commitment to excellence.
- Champion cybersecurity initiatives at all levels of the company, advocating for security as a core business value.
- Incident Response Management:
- Enhance and maintain an incident response plan, ensuring rapid and effective responses to security incidents.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to investigate, contain, and remediate security breaches.
- Conduct post-incident analysis to identify vulnerabilities and improve incident response procedures.
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
- Identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities within the organization.
- Conduct regular risk assessments, including threat modeling and vulnerability assessments.
- Develop and implement risk mitigation strategies, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Customer-Facing and Team Management:
- Interact with customers to understand their security requirements and provide assurance on our security posture.
- Manage and lead a customer-facing cybersecurity team, ensuring exceptional service and client satisfaction.
- Security Architecture Design in the Cloud and Data Centers:
- Assist and direct the design and implementation of secure cloud and data center architectures.
- Ensure that all security measures are integrated into cloud-based and on-premises systems.
- Collaborate with IT and development teams to align security with business goals.
- Project Management:
- Plan, execute, and oversee cybersecurity projects, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to achieve project goals.
- Ability to work alongside team members and roll-up sleeves as part of project management.
- Security Governance and Compliance:
- Enforce compliance with relevant regulations and standards in collaboration with the Compliance team.
- Vulnerability Management:
- Ensure best practice external attack surface management (EASM), threat intelligence, metrics, and vulnerability scanning are executed.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:
- A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles.
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, GIAC or CISM are strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in platform and perimeter security, network architecture, cloud security, and product security design.
- Deep understanding of security frameworks, protocols, and best practices. Proficiency in security technologies, risk assessment, compliance standards, relevant regulations (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
- Strong ability to influence and work cross functionally to drive business initiatives.
- Strong understanding of current cybersecurity threats, trends, and best practices.
- Excellent team leadership and management skills with a track record of building and leading high-performing cybersecurity teams.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
If you are a visionary cybersecurity leader with a passion for implementing cutting-edge zero-trust security solutions, project management, and managing security architecture in cloud and data centers, and if you're ready to lead our organization into a secure future while ensuring security governance, compliance, and excellent customer service, we encourage you to apply for the Vice President of Cybersecurity position at [Company Name]. Join us in safeguarding our digital assets and building a culture of cybersecurity excellence.
Additional Requirements And Details
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Located and working from an office location.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
- Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
- Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
- Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
- Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
- Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
- We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
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Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings .
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
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Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and/or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.
