Senior Manager, Security Risk & Reviews

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We’re seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager of Security Risk & Reviews who will help us continue to evolve our Risk function by using engineering principles and data-driven strategies to precisely identify, understand, communicate, and prioritize mitigation of risk. Our Risk function consists of the following programs:

• Internal security risk management (risk assessment, risk governance, risk register management)
• Third-party security risk management (vendor security reviews, partner security reviews)
• Enterprise risk management 
• Security metrics (risk reduction/KRIs, control coverage/KCIs, program performance/KPIs)
• Security advisory & consulting (policies/standards requirements definition, RFC reviews)

You’ll partner closely with Engineering, IT, Security, Leadership, and basically every other team at Klaviyo to create a holistic view of risk based on high quality data about our assets, weaknesses, threats, and safeguards (controls). You will lead and support a team of talented Risk practitioners to ensure our risk management practices are transparent, collaborative, evidence-based, and centered around quantitative risk models. Through all of this, you’ll help Klaviyo sustainably create value for our customers and uphold our trust with them.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, grow, and develop our Risk team, helping your team members with career development, OKR achievement, and being effective partners across Klaviyo
• Partner with our Risk & Trust leadership to plan, oversee, and drive execution of our Risk & Trust projects and operations to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outcomes
• Define and steer the build out of new programs, such as Cyber Risk Quantification and Security Reviews, to more efficiently and effectively drive better risk management outcomes
• Continuously seek out and prioritize opportunities for the Risk team to automate and streamline our processes, reducing manual toil as much as possible
• Drive cross-functional alignment between the CISO organization and partner teams to ensure risk-related priorities are accounted for in quarterly and annual roadmap planning

We’d love to hear from you if you have most of the following:

• Current experience leading, growing, and managing teams, with an intentional focus on fostering diversity and belonging throughout the entire employee lifecycle
• Broad and deep understanding of modern cloud-native web application architectures and related security best practices, especially in the context of AWS
• Experience with cyber risk quantification (CRQ) tools and frameworks (e.g. riskquant, Safe Security, FAIR, etc.)
• Experience with threat modeling, secure design reviews, or other technical security assessment methods
• Experience building and leading internal security risk management and third-party risk management programs, especially with a strong focus on process automation and streamlining
• Experience using business intelligence tools to build and operationalize security metrics that demonstrably improve security outcomes (e.g. Tableau, ThoughtSpot, Mode, AWS QuickSight)

Everyone on our team must have:

• A strong bias toward evidence, logic, math, and reason when communicating risk (instead of fear, uncertainty, and doubt)
• A strong bias toward “guardrails, not gates” and “paved security roads” philosophies (instead of rigid “centralized command-and-control” processes and operating styles)
• Excellent ability to plan, prioritize, and deliver results cross-functionally and in a timely fashion
• Proficiency discussing complex, nuanced topics with technical & non-technical audiences alike, especially software engineers
• Strong alignment with Klaviyo’s core values

Ideally, you may also have any of the following:

• Experience with SQL, building tools with REST APIs, and Python
• Experience in security operations, se