[Hiring] Director of Security @BioRender

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.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with engineering to evolve our approach for secure software development using AI coding tools and the security of our customer-facing products.
• Maintain and advance our security and compliance posture; evaluate other certifications as a competitive differentiator for enterprise deals.
• Scale our security function through automation as much as possible.
• Lead our security operations function: auditing, internal documentation, incident response, and company-wide security awareness.
• Own BioRender’s security narrative for enterprise customers, including our Trust Center, security documentation, and customer-facing security reviews.
• Instill a culture of security across the company, and integrate security and data privacy into processes and decision making.

Qualifications

• 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.