Span
Head of Security
$250K–$300K
San Francisco · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience; at least 5 years in a security leadership role at a hardware, consumer electronics, IoT, or software-defined product company.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads SPAN’s security organization and sets security strategy across its connected electrical products, cloud and mobile services, AI systems, and enterprise IT.
What you'll do
- Own the multi-year security roadmap, manage risk, and report security posture to executives and the board.
- Oversee product, IoT, cloud, application, AI, and enterprise security, including vulnerability management and incident response.
- Lead security governance and compliance, and recruit and develop the security team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including at least 5 years in security leadership at a hardware, consumer electronics, IoT, or software-defined product company.
- Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP), application security, and connected device or embedded security; hands-on engineering background.
- Experience building and scaling security programs and communicating cyber risks to executives, boards, and enterprise partners.
- Strong working knowledge of compliance audits, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and data governance and privacy frameworks.
Nice to have
- Leadership certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CISA.
Pay
$250K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
AWS/GCP, SAST, DAST, CI/CD, EDR, IAM, SOC 2, ISO 27001
AI focus
Secure AI and machine-learning infrastructure by threat-modeling ML pipelines, protecting model integrity against adversarial inputs, and establishing data governance and privacy safeguards for workloads using home energy telemetry.
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