The Company
Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful, collaborative, and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling, and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI, new superpowers, and boundless flexibility.
We are a tight-knit crew of engineers, designers, and data aficionados. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details, and we would love your help bringing them to life.
Hex has raised over $100m from great VCs and angels, giving us many years of runway and the ability to pay competitive salaries, offer great benefits, and provide meaningful equity.
Watch a demo of Hex on our homepage, read more on our blog, or check out our handbook for a better sense of what it's like to work here.
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The Opportunity
Hex is hiring an experienced leader to build out the next evolution of our security program. The Security team’s responsibility is to safeguard Hex, our staff, and our customers while enabling us to continue building the best-in-class product that customers love.
Reporting To: caitlin colgrove,
co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Location:
Hex is headquartered in San Francisco and works in a remote-first hybrid environment, meeting at HQ for meetings and encouraging and maintaining the right balance between remote work and in-person.
Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
Define a world-class security program for Hex and roadmap the operational plan to achieving it over the next phase of the company journey
Hire and grow a team of incredible contributors across Security, IT, and Compliance
Accelerate Engineering and Sales with thoughtful use of effective and preventative measures, such as tooling, automation, and process to enable the company to move quickly while reducing risk
Partner with the rest of the executive team in defining technical and business strategy and priorities, particularly as we move further up market
Be the trusted face of the company security program for external partners and customers by ensuring our security practices are well-articulated and documented for universal consumption
Hex’s stack is primarily EKS on AWS deployed suing Scalr, CircleCI, Helm and Terraform.
Our application is primarily written in Typescript and Python, with the main frameworks including React, Node, and Apollo GraphQL.
Our company handbook is public and you can read more about our values here.
You can also read about our product and some of our biggest technological wins and mishaps on our blog.
The Candidate
Experience & Skills:
8+ years of experience building and leading security programs, including securing highly technical products such as infrastructure, data, or dev tools
Excellent communication skills for collaboration and driving strategic decisions at the highest levels of the org
Love of collaboration with partners both technical and non-technical audiences across the org
High-performance but empathetic people management
Passion for building in high-growth startup environments
Deep security expertise in Enterprise SaaS handing business-critical data
Strategic security thinking for early and mid-stage companies
Effective, empathetic team and people management
Top security talent magnet
Clear, effective communication with cross-functional leaders
A keen sense for business and customer value and excitement for engaging directly with customers and field teams
Mission & Values:
This person should bring Security and IT operational excellence to Hex
S/he will understand the needs and complexity of the business and combine that with deep security expertise to define a security program and roadmap that dramatically reduces key risk areas and accelerates, not hinders, the business
Outcomes:
Develop and execute a 12-month plan for up-leveling the security and IT programs, including headcount (as needed), critical areas of technical and operational investment, and programs for accelerating and scaling other functions including engineering and sales
Partner with EPD and business leadership to seamlessly merge world-class security with Hex’s culture and business priorities
Manage existing and future ICs to operational and technical excellence
