Humbly Confident Security Lead

Application Deadline: 17 March 2024

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Compensation: $142,000 - $170,000 / year

Description

We’re YNAB (“why-nab”), a financial education company with a money management app. We teach four habits that change your relationship with money—so you love how you spend and celebrate how you save. For nearly two decades, people have been using YNAB and then telling their friends what a difference it has made in their lives. Check out our community on Facebook, TikTok, or Reddit (really!), or read some of our app reviews, and you’ll see what we mean. We love building something that has a huge positive impact on people’s lives.

Before we can help them love their spending, people need to trust YNAB with private details of their lives. And to those who work here, YNAB embodies years of relentless effort to craft something uniquely wonderful. Honoring that trust and protecting the company we’re proud of is why this position of Security Lead exists. Our Security Lead is dedicated full-time to safeguarding YNAB, and they have a single primary outcome to achieve:

Keep YNAB Secure.

You’re the Security Lead we’re looking for if the thought of anchoring our commitment to protecting YNAB and its customers resonates deeply. You navigate security complexities with a blend of technical expertise, empathetic leadership, pragmatic problem-solving, and an eagerness to go hands-on. You take ownership of security, including assessment, strategy, communication, and execution. 

If you’re the one we’re looking for, you have high standards for all aspects of security. You cultivate, evangelize, and teach these standards—and hold the organization accountable for them. But you don’t dictate security by fiat; you nurture the team and work alongside them to surface the decisions and approaches best suited to YNAB. We’re looking for a leader and doer in security, but that doesn’t mean you’ve held a specific title for a particular time. We expect you’ll be most successful in this role if you have at least five years of deep and rich experience in a SaaS environment (whether that be in security, engineering, or management). 

In this role, you’ll have three main responsibilities: 

• Your primary focus will be cybersecurity—protecting our systems and data from digital attacks, theft, damage, and unauthorized access. This requires employing a wide range of techniques, technologies, processes, and practices to safeguard the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of our information and systems from a growing volume and sophistication of cyber threats.
• You’ll partner with Operations on compliance to ensure our security practices, policies, and procedures meet industry standards and regulatory requirements. You’ll take ownership of the relevant technical and security aspects and help with implementation efforts.
• You’ll also be responsible for customer protection, working to help users be more secure by evaluating and improving YNAB measures that allow customers to protect themselves.

That’s a super brief intro to what you’ll be working on. But first, you need to know if you’ll even like working with us. Let’s talk a bit about life at YNAB, and then we’ll go into more detail about what we’re looking for.

YNAB started in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outside funding—we’re established, profitable, and in this for the long haul. We have one overarching requirement when it comes to joining our team: our original Core Value Manifesto has to really click with you. If you’re nodding emphatically while reading it, you’ll probably really like it here, and we can’t wait to hear from you!

We live our Core Values every day at YNAB, and we mean it when we say we are an equal-opportunity employer. We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, abilities, beliefs, and experiences is critical to our success, and we are passionate about creating a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative environment for all employees. All are encouraged to apply as we continue to grow a smart, hard-working, and diverse team that loves working together to build something that matters.

We also work really hard, together, to make working at YNAB an amazing experience, and we’r