Security Manager

Decentralized Masters  ยท  via Work With Indies
๐ŸŒŽ Remote ๐Ÿ“ Remote, Florida

Job Description:

  • Own the security strategy and roadmap across Decentralized Masters, Legacy, Inflection Club, and future brands
  • Report on security posture and risk to leadership every month
  • Own incident response end to end and lead the room during live incidents
  • Keep runbooks current, run tabletop exercises, and write actionable postmortems
  • Manage and develop the Security Engineer, and build the security team as the company scales
  • Write and enforce security policies covering access control, acceptable use, data handling, vendor review, and incident response
  • Prepare the company for audits such as SOC 2, working with Legal & Compliance
  • Own email security, staff training, and phishing simulations
  • Run brand protection by finding and taking down fake domains and social-media accounts impersonating company brands
  • Set security standards for customer accounts, including login protection and account-takeover defense
  • Work with engineering teams to implement customer-facing platform security
  • Set rules for AI agents and automations handling credentials, data, and tool permissions
  • Review high-risk AI agents and automations before launch
  • Own the security stack and vendors, including SIEM, endpoint protection, email security, identity management, and device management
  • Set device and access standards for IT operations
  • Provide scam-awareness content to members in collaboration with Community, Support, and Marketing
  • Protect the company, platforms, and brands; educate members about scams affecting personal wallets and external accounts
  • Report to the Head of Technology and brief the leadership team directly monthly
  • Present a 90-day security plan to the Head of Technology as a finalist

Requirements:

  • 5+ years in security, including at least 2 years leading a security function or serving as senior security personnel at a company of 100+ people
  • Has led live-incident response, not just tabletop exercises
  • Has built or rebuilt a security program from an early stage: policy, tooling, training, and incident response
  • Experience in crypto, fintech, or another high-fraud industry
  • Deep, current knowledge of phishing, social engineering, and impersonation attacks and how to defend against them
  • Hands-on experience with SIEM, endpoint protection, email security, and identity and device management platforms
  • Can write scripts and automation rather than relying only on vendor UIs
  • Writes clear security policy and gets people to follow it
  • Briefs executives in plain language and trains non-technical staff
  • Comfortable leading in a fully remote team spread across many time zones
  • Nice to have: Has prepared a company for SOC 2 or ISO 27001
  • Nice to have: Has run a brand protection or takedown program
  • Nice to have: Experience securing or evaluating AI agents and LLM-based tools
  • Nice to have: Experience with customer-facing security features such as account-takeover defense
  • Nice to have: Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GCIH, OSTH, or OSCP

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation package
  • Independent Contractor opportunity
  • Fully remote, globally distributed team
  • Team offsites
  • Collaborative, forward-thinking culture that values innovation and results