[Hiring] Director of Security @BioRender Inc.

Role Description

We're hiring a Director of Security to lead our Security team at BioRender. As we integrate AI deeply into both our software development process and products, we need a security leader who understands both traditional information security and the emerging AI threat landscape.

This role is equal parts builder and strategist. You’ll set the security vision and governance model for a company shipping AI-powered features to enterprise customers who handle sensitive research data.

Qualifications

• Experienced security leader, focused on user experience and thoughtful in building an impactful and efficient security culture
• Strategic builder who thinks long-term but will get in the weeds when needed
• Business-focused and empathetic, someone who earns trust across engineering, product, go-to-market teams, and customers by being a partner, not a bottleneck
• Passionate about the intersection of security and scientific research and understands why enterprise customers in pharma, biotech, and academia have heightened data sensitivity

Requirements

• 7+ years in security leadership, including experience building or significantly scaling a security program at a fast-growing SaaS company
• Deep experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and similar compliance certifications
• Demonstrated understanding of appsec, AI product, and AI software development security risks and how to mitigate them
• A preference for automation over manual scaling
• Strong track record partnering with product and engineering teams in a governance / oversight model, setting policy and guardrails while engineering executes
• Experience with enterprise security requirements in regulated or research-intensive industries
• Excellent at rolling out organizational change and getting buy-in across technical and non-technical teams

Benefits

• We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
• BioRender is loved by millions! We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
• Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
• We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.