[Hiring] Senior Corporate Security Specialist @ActBlue

Role Description

The Security Team at ActBlue works to protect ActBlue from threat actors that might target ActBlue, our donors, our employees, and the campaigns and organizations that fundraise on our platform. Our security program is anchored in empathy for our stakeholders, which is a primary value for our team.

The Senior Corporate Security Specialist II is an experienced individual contributor who builds and tunes detections that protect ActBlue, independently leads complex security reviews, and serves as a trusted resource for the Security team and its partners. You will report to the Sr. Manager of Security, who sets the direction of the function.

Discretion is a core competency for this role. Sensitive matter reviews are conducted with forensically sound evidence handling, chain-of-custody discipline, and a confidentiality-by-default posture.

What You Will Do

• Security Operations & Detection
  • Author, tune, and maintain detections as code in our SIEM/SOAR pipeline — version-controlled, peer-reviewed, tested, and deployed through the detection pipeline.
  • Identify detection and tooling gaps and propose architecture improvements.
  • Serve on the on-call rotation and coordinate day-to-day escalations with our third-party managed SOC, maintaining the detection feedback loop.
  • Operate email security, endpoint security, and DLP controls; investigate and resolve high-sensitivity signals and tune controls based on what investigations surface.
  • Run tabletop exercises, deliver workforce security training, and produce threat intelligence that shapes team priorities.
  • Restrict, suspend, or revoke an employee's system access when a review identifies active risk, pending completion of that review.
  • Define security requirements and detection coverage for identity and audit collection across corporate systems.
• Sensitive Matter Reviews
  • Conduct investigations and sensitive matter reviews with forensically sound evidence handling, chain-of-custody discipline, and confidentiality by default.
  • Lead complex reviews independently — employee conduct, insider risk, access misuse, data exfiltration — co-leading or escalating the most sensitive matters.
  • Conduct forensic analysis across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and SaaS sources.
  • Produce findings, evidence summaries, technical analyses, and timelines for key stakeholders.
  • Preserve evidence for legal holds and formal proceedings.
  • Interpret findings in context and recommend resolutions, rather than providing raw technical output alone.
• Standards and Practice
  • Apply and improve Corporate Security methodology, evidence standards, and reporting standards.
  • Manage the SOC relationship and coordinate forensic vendors and external specialists, treating both as extensions of the team's capacity.
  • Exercise independent judgment over review methodology and evidence handling within established standards.
  • Maintain the chain-of-custody, evidence-handling, and confidentiality controls used by Corporate Security.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of security experience, including hands-on experience leading complex corporate-security and workplace investigations.
• Hands-on experience conducting forensic investigations across endpoint, identity, email, cloud, and SaaS data sources.
• Practical fluency with detection engineering as code, including authoring, testing, and tuning detections in a version-controlled pipeline.
• Working experience with forensically sound evidence collection and preservation — including chain-of-custody discipline, hashing, custodian-based collection, and eDiscovery / legal-hold workflows.
• Sound judgment about what evidence to collect, how to preserve it, and what to share with whom.
• A track record of producing review findings and recommendations that have held up to scrutiny.
• Comfort working with internal or external counsel, and directing forensic vendors on assigned engagements.
• Understanding of the legal context in which corporate-security matters arise, including the limits and obligations that apply to management-side reviews.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical findings to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working alongside a managed SOC or MSSP, including escalation management.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code workflows in Terraform and Python for logging, alerting, and security automation.
• Experience securing Google Workspace, Okta, GitHub, and Atlassian environments.
• Experience supporting PCI evidence collection and response.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy.
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out-of-pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability.
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option.
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees.
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions.
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family, and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included).
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees.
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times.