Slash
Chief Information Security Officer
San Francisco Office · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in security; meaningful time leading security at a fintech, payments company, bank, or crypto company.
About the job
Own and build Slash’s company-wide security program, protecting its financial products, infrastructure, people, and partners while enabling growth.
What you'll do
- Set security strategy, build the security team, and secure financial products, accounts, cloud infrastructure, and AI agents.
- Lead incident response, compliance frameworks and audits, vendor risk management, penetration testing, bug bounty, and red-team exercises.
- Advise leadership and the board on security risk and work with engineering, compliance, legal, risk, and partner banks.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in security, including meaningful leadership at a fintech, payments company, bank, or crypto company handling real money.
- Track record of building an early-stage security program and scaling it through hypergrowth.
- Hands-on experience with PCI DSS and SOC 2, and sponsor-bank security expectations and FFIEC-style examinations.
- Strong cloud security experience in a modern, fast-shipping engineering environment.
Nice to have
- Experience securing crypto or stablecoin infrastructure, card issuing programs, or global and multi-entity payment operations.
- Founder experience or early security leadership at a company that went through significant growth.
Tools
AWS, Cloudflare, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, MFA
AI focus
Define permissions, guardrails, auditability, and abuse prevention for AI agents and automation acting on customer accounts.
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