Vice President, Corporate Technology & Security

Location: New York, NY

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, Germany, and India. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Team:

The Corporate Technology & Security team enables every one of our employees to be their best, and is the collection of people, processes, and technology that allow AlphaSense to earn the trust of our customers every day. We strive to be the force-multiplier for AlphaSense employees as they onboard, conduct R&D, produce and source high-value content, operate, market, sell, support our customers, and everything in between. We protect customers, employees, and the enterprise from threats internal and external alike. 

About the Role: 

The Vice President of Corporate Technology & Security is a newly-created Senior Leadership Team role, and as such, will play a pivotal part in assessing, maturing, and scaling the organization and its capabilities as we integrate multiple teams (Corporate Technology and Security), recent acquisitions (Stream and Sentieo), and cultures in AlphaSense’s journey toward a successful IPO. The successful candidate will be a motivated people leader, demonstrated IT and security expert, and someone invigorated by the opportunity to drive transformational change to become a trusted asset which powers the growth of the enterprise.  

• 12+ years of experience working directly in Corporate Technology/IT and Security domains
• 5+ years experience in people management with exceptional skills recruiting and developing high-performing teams
• 3+ years of experience in the development and management of managers or director-level leaders
• Able to influence at multiple levels, from the front lines to the C-suite, in order to gain buy-in to achieve strategic, cross-enterprise outcomes
• Superior business acumen and ability to understand business unit operations quickly and accurately
• Excellent verbal and written skills and a demonstrated ability to communicate technical and business issues and solutions to multiple organizational levels internally and externally
• Strong teamwork, interpersonal & relationship-building skills
• Self-motivated, highly driven, and able to work independently and through ambiguity
• Strong problem-solving skills – ability to see past the immediate answer to the simple, elegant solution
• Deep understanding of OWASP vulnerabilities and experience with developing DevSecOps culture.
• Deep experience with building scalable application,platform and infrastructure security programs.
• Experience with building SOC functions and business continuity programs.
• Deep understanding and experience with privacy, financial, and security regulations and rolling out frameworks (CCPA, GDPR, SOX, SOC2, ISO27001, NIST, ITIL, etc.)
• Bachelor’s or greater degree in a related field is preferred
• Previous IPO experience is a strong plus

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead the Corporate Technology & Security functions in developing an org strategy, associated OKRs, budgeting, and resources to deliver excellence in day-to-day operations
• Assess current state of Corporate Technology & Security capabilities, operating models, maturity levels, and develop associated roadmaps to drive successful IPO-ready strategy
• Define services, standards, organizational design, policies, processes, associated capabilities, controls, and metrics that ensure successful execution against the Corporate Technology & Security roadmaps
• Build a culture of collaboration, customer/stakeholder obsession, and impact among your team
• Collaborate with functional leaders to understand their day-to-day hardware, software, networking, and technology support needs in order to develop scalable solutions which empower them with force-multiplying capabilities
• Identify current or potential security risks and exposures, and develop procedures to remediate current violations, prevent future incidents, and improve security across the business. 
• Implement Enterprise risk management and reporting practices to achieve Cyber surety. 
• Build and mature application, platform security programs in the organization.  
• Build strong security operation and incident response functions for IPO readiness.  

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.