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Director of Security

Remote-EMEARemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 Dec 2025

💰 $180,550/yr($80,250/yr – $180,550/yr)

About the role

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

Summary

The Director of Security will oversee and lead Remote’s security team and function. They will manage Remote’s security strategy and its implementation to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the organisation’s systems and information.

Key Responsibilities

Define, implement, communicate and maintain security strategy, policies, goals and requirements aligned with business strategy, and manage security resources, to support the company’s objectives
Work with the Security Council and Remote’s senior leadership in developing Remote’s Information Security vision, strategy and road-map of Remote’s Security function
Recruit and nurture individual growth to build an autonomous and high performing Security team
Be an advocate of information security best practices and proactively looking to improve and drive Remote’s security posture, driving efforts to improve Security Awareness across company
Drive Remote’s security risk management program, by partnering with Legal, Data Protection and Finance in developing and managing our enterprise risk management framework(s), and collaborating with senior leaders in reducing Information Security risks
Manage and improve upon our Application Security initiatives and personnel to make sure Remote is delivering the most secure Platform possible to its customers
Build a Security Incident Response processes and culture within the Security Team
Report to Remote’s top management about security risks, threats and their potential impact, incidents and security performance
Drive security compliance requirements from customers, standards and regulations
Supervise the management and improvement of Remote’s ISMS as defined in Remote’s ISMS roles and responsibilities document

Requirements

Extensive experience managing security teams, including people, resources, stakeholders and security service management
Certified in cybersecurity management, e.g. CISSP, CISM etc.
Understands the leadership responsibilities and prioritizes execution of company-wide strategy
Experience in cyber security strategy management and implementation and fostering a security culture
Proficient with security principles, technologies and security engineering domains
Ability to clearly articulate security issues to all types of business stakeholders, including Board members
Ability to navigate through ambiguous problems in a hyper-growth environment
Excellent writing and communication skills

Etiquette

Solid display of Remote’s 💎Values
Proactively seeks new tools and frameworks that can improve the team's productivity
Clearly communicates needs and requirements to optimize productivity
Fosters feedback and mentoring within the security team
Suggests new initiatives and approaches to current problems
Helps everyone grow continuously
Clearly aligns mission and vision within the security team
Publicly empowers the team and gives visibility to the work group successes