Trust & Safety Associate, Information Security

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At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

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OVERVIEW

 The InfoSec associate will sit on Instacart’s Safety & Claims team and report to one of the Safety & Claims leads. You will collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Procurement, Legal, Engineering, and other stakeholders in this role. You must be able to operate independently and with a high degree of confidentiality. 

Instacart's Trust & Safety department takes data-driven, customer-first approaches to ensure we are compliant with all local, state, and federal regulations regarding grocery fulfillment. The Safety & Claims team is responsible for executing on processes critical to ensuring the Instacart platform remains secure and safe for all users.

 

ABOUT THE JOB

• The InfoSec associate will handle a variety of operational tasks related to data privacy and information security. You will be responsible for handling cadenced tasks (e.g., daily/weekly) as well as high-priority escalations. You will be expected to manage competing priorities across several different subject matter areas. 
• Your responsibilities will include:
  • Evaluating vendors’ data collection practices and security postures; working with internal teams and vendor teams to understand the types of data each vendor would collect;  communicating Instacart’s security and privacy requirements
  • Investigating potential organizational security risks flagged by internal teams; communicating findings to high-level stakeholders
  • Tracking and reporting metrics on InfoSec Ops initiatives
  • Assisting with large-scale tooling access reviews via Jira
• We are looking for candidates with stellar written communication skills and a keen sense of situational awareness. You will need to navigate delicate situations with discretion and tact; as you develop in this role, you will be expected to understand when to under-communicate or over-communicate depending on the audience and situation.
• As an early hire on Instacart’s InfoSec Operations team, you will take on project work to help build the program from the ground up. You will surface ideas for projects and process improvements and drive them to fruition. You will contribute to process documentation as we iterate on workflows. You may be asked to take on light data analysis tasks.

 

ABOUT YOU

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Familiarity with issues and vocabulary related to information security and data privacy 
• Stellar written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate about complex, nuanced privacy and security issues to internal and external stakeholders in time-sensitive, business-critical, and potentially high-visibility situations
• Ability to navigate high-risk situations in a calm, meticulous, detail-oriented manner
• Comfortable using Google Drive, Jira, and Slack to collaborate with colleagues
• Comfortable with basic data analysis using Excel or Google Sheets

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• CIPP certification is a big plus
• Familiarity with applicable privacy laws and regulations (e.g., CCPA / CPRA, GDPR, HIPAA)
• Experience using investigative tools to conduct searches, collect findings, and identify trends
• Basic understanding of business metrics and reporting
• Professional experience related to information security and data privacy operations

 

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Instacart provides highly market-competitive compensation and benefits in each location where our employees work. This role is remote and the