Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss.
Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.

• We invented the cyber ratings industry in 2011
• Over 3000 customers trust Bitsight
• Over 750 teammates are dispersed throughout Boston, Raleigh, New York, Lisbon, Singapore, and remote

Reports to: CFO, and serves as a key advisor to the CEO with regular engagement with Audit & Risk Committee, and Board of Directors on enterprise risk and cybersecurity posture.

Direct Partners: CTO, CPO, Head of Marketing, Head of People

About Bitsight

Bitsight is transforming how organizations manage cybersecurity risk by delivering objective, data-driven insights into security performance. We leverage advanced AI to empower organizations with precise analytics derived from the industry's most extensive external cybersecurity dataset. With more than 3,500 customers and over 68,000 organizations active on our platform, Bitsight enables teams to identify vulnerabilities, detect emerging threats, prioritize remediation, and mitigate risks across their extended attack surface in real time.

As a global leader in cyber risk ratings, we empower enterprises, insurers, governments, and other organizations to proactively manage risk across their digital ecosystem.

The Objective

We are seeking a strategic, operationally rigorous, and commercially engaged CISO who views security not as a cost center, but as a product differentiator and a catalyst for global trust. You will protect our enterprise value by securing our global infrastructure, while simultaneously building enterprise value by acting as a peer-level advisor to our customers, influencing our product roadmap, and defining how AI transforms cyber risk management.

Role Overview

Bitsight is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer to lead and evolve our global security program. This role is both inward-facing and outward-facing, requiring a leader who can balance internal enterprise defense with external market influence.

• Internal Defense & Cross-Functional Partnership: You will be responsible for protecting Bitsight’s internal systems, infrastructure, employees, products, and data. You will partner closely with executive leadership, Product, Engineering, Legal, IT, GRC, People, and customer-facing teams to continuously strengthen our security posture. 

• Market Voice & Customer Trust: You will serve as a trusted security voice with customers, partners, analysts, media, and the broader cybersecurity community. 

• AI-Powered Risk Strategy: Combining deep technical and operational security expertise with strong business acumen and executive presence, you will play a critical role in shaping Bitsight’s perspective on how organizations can understand, measure, and reduce cyber risk in an environment increasingly influenced by AI-driven threats.

Key Responsibilities

Security Operations, Risk Management & Resilience

• Modern Defense: Oversee security across endpoints, IAM, cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure), SaaS applications, and data protection programs. Lead incident response, threat detection, and vulnerability management.

• AI-Native Security: Ensure our program keeps pace with a rapidly changing threat landscape, including AI-assisted phishing, GenAI attacks, and automated reconnaissance. Enable secure and responsible adoption of AI across the enterprise, balancing innovation velocity with appropriate governance, risk management, and protection of proprietary data assets. Define governance for secure enterprise AI adoption, including protecting proprietary datasets and responsible internal AI usage.

• Secure-by-Design: Drive security architecture practices in close partnership with Engineering, Product, and Product Security teams.

• Operational Resilience: Lead enterprise risk assessments, mitigation planning, third-party risk, and business continuity initiatives.

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