Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks Digital Security team is responsible for the security of Justworks products, platforms, services, and corporate operations. Led by the Chief Information Security Officer, Digital Security’s vision is to become the partner and enabler for business and engineering by working collaboratively with others to embed security in business hygiene and engineering DNA to strengthen our cyber resilience. We are looking for a strong hands-on leader who can establish a critical security function focusing on monitoring, detecting, and responding to the cyber threat, and who can bring our cyber defense operations towards an advanced cyber fusion center.

We are looking for a leader who has passion for security, cyber defense, threat management, vulnerability management, and continuous testing. You have extensive experience to build the team and provide directions and technical guidance to your team. You are a leader who holds yourself and your team accountable for doing the right things in the right way. You are an influencer who helps your team grow, who partners with other teams to work towards our common goal, and who brings positive energy and impact to Justworks. 

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Assess the current state of Justworks monitoring and detection gaps, from all aspects including technology, process and people.
• Create CDO strategy and roadmap to bring CDO towards its maturity level to meet Justworks Digital Security Objectives
• Build and expand the CDO team, including org/role design, operating model, engagement model, career development, and managing individual contributors.
• Build necessary services, and run these services effectively to improve Digital Security’s detection and response capabilities.
• Lead the team to execute the roadmap and deliver projects and services on time, within budget and with quality.
• Lead, manage and mature the people, process, and technologies present in a 24x7 cyber defense operation.
• Own and run Cyber Defense Operation Steering Committee, and provide regular status and report on incidents, vulnerabilities and remediations.
• Leverage the incident response program to conduct cyber table-top simulations and educational sessions with stakeholders
• Understand, determine and support priorities and urgencies, with the ability to prioritize projects, tasks, incidents, risks and vulnerabilities. 
• Provide leadership for incident response investigations, coordinate response activity and brief senior leaders while maintaining confidentiality
• Provide advanced technical leadership and direction to CDO analysts
• Assist CISO on budget planning and budget management for CDO. 
• Work with the CISO and other Digital Security leaders to define and maintain dashboards and metrics that demonstrate CDO’s delivery capability and Justworks security posture related to CDO objectives
• Collaborate closely with the Security Architecture & Engineering (SAE) and Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) teams to address vulnerabilities and gaps identified from incidents, with particular focus on  both short term remediation and long term solutions to address security gaps.
• Partner and collaborate with stakeholders such as ProdEng, TechOps, BusOps, Customer Success, Internal Audit, and Crisis Management and to support security and resilience testing.
• Perform other related duties as assigned

How You Will Do Your Work

As the leader of Cyber Defense Operations,