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About the Role

Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision. Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt. If you’re as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let’s build something great together.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the security team, including managing, mentoring, and growing emerging security leaders and engineers.
• Define and evolve security strategy, building and maturing a comprehensive security program aligned with business and product goals.
• Embed security into engineering workflows by collaborating with engineering and product teams to integrate security early in system designs and CI/CD pipelines.
• Govern compliance and third-party risk, owning security architecture, operations, engineering, IT compliance, and third-party risk assessment programs.
• Act as a risk-management partner, assessing risk and providing business-enabling guardrails.
• Communicate complex security concepts and major risks to non-technical stakeholders, executive leadership, and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Experienced security leader with a track record of successfully leading, mentoring, and growing small security teams within highly-regulated, growth-stage businesses.
• Familiarity with operating within a public company environment and understanding its distinct requirements.
• Strong ability to lead through influence, build alignment, and navigate corporate organizational structures effectively.
• Proven track record of understanding business growth needs and balancing risk mitigation with operational speed and employee experience.
• Understanding of cloud-native security principles (least privilege, zero trust, segmentation), IAM controls, and practical architectural trade-offs.

Skills

• Cloud-native security principles
• Least privilege
• Zero trust
• Segmentation
• IAM controls
• Architectural trade-offs
• NIST
• CIS
• SOX
• SOC2
• PCI
• CCPA/CPRA
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Terraform
• Ansible

Location

• US

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Director

Salary/Compensations

• $240,000 - $300,000 USD
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Equity

Benefits

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Mac computers
• Work-from-home stipend
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Competitive parental leave

About the Company

• Earnest empowers ambitious professionals to make confident financial decisions and build the life they envision.
• Earnies are committed to helping borrowers move forward with confidence by offering smarter borrowing options with a clearer path to taking control of their debt.
• At Earnest, our people bring our cultural principles to life. These principles define how we work, how we win, and what we expect of ourselves and each other: Every Second Counts, Choose To Do Hard Things, Pursue Excellence, Lead Together, Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously.
• At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard.
• Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission.
• We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.

Equal Opportunity

• Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or genetics.
• Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.