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Director of Security at Qwilr

Sydney, Australia

(Hybrid working with WFH days)



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Hi there,

Join us as our first Director of Security and lead us to our secure future!

Qwilr the product creates a trusting experience between sellers and buyers. The foundation of this is a trustworthy product and service that we provide to our customers.

As the Head of Security, you will support and champion authentic trustworthiness for our customers existing and new. At the heart of building this trust is our approach to managing customer data and the integrity of Qwilr’s systems.

With your touch-points with staff, sales and the occasional customer, your role will be rich in interactions. With the ever-increasing complexity of security and compliance for SaaS companies, you also won’t be lacking in opportunities to learn and solve complex problems. Working closely with the CTO and with the support of Engineering, you will both have clear leadership and impact as well as having the resources necessary to establish a new dedicated function that will grow with Qwilr.



About the Role

In this newly created role of Director of Security, you will grow and maintain our core security infrastructure, as we continue to build a robust enterprise-grade platform.

This role will support departments across Qwilr, including Product and Go-to-market, as well as external vendors. Collaborating with insight-formers and decision-makers, your mission will be to empower security-informed decision making across the business!

You also have the opportunity to shape Qwilr's in-product security capabilities and infrastructure, and collaborate closely with our infrastructure platform team.


What You'll Do

This is a supported, high-impact role, benefiting Qwilr across several areas:

  • Protection of customer’s data and the integrity of Qwilr’s systems.
  • Build trust with potential Qwilr customers through achieving compliance certification, public assets and sales enablement.
  • Policies and controls that manage risk, support value delivery and form the basis for license/data agreements.
  • Effective operation of security management practices.

An organisation aware of and adherent to security and compliance best practices.


Support and Collaboration

  • You will report to and work closely with the CTO.
  • You will liaise with the Security and Compliance Committee including CTO, Finance and the Founders.
  • You will have support and dedicated time from Engineers to implement security improvements, in addition to on-rotation Engineers to implement maintenance tasks.
  • Appropriate budget will be allocated to purchases to accelerate security management and improvements.
  • Marketing will support website assets related to security.
  • The Sales team will support security Q&A by self-serving questions through a service desk you will operate. Administrative support will also be provided.


What would help you hit the ground running


  • Experience with security management, compliance frameworks and controls. If you geek out on these things… let’s talk!
  • A track record in reliable delivery and program management. Some cat herding will be necessary.
  • You don’t have to be an extrovert, but you are up for engaging staff, the sales team and the occasional customer.
  • A systems thinker. You can sense where the right balance is so a process manages risk but supports velocity.
  • Communication and inspiration: Clear and concise written policy is an important skill, as is creating security awareness to engage others.


✅ Responsibilities

While we focus on impact at Qwilr, key responsibilities for your role include:

  • Establishing and overseeing security practices including Bug bounty programs, Pen-tests and Disaster Recovery.
  • Coordinating security operations in conjunction with on-rotation “security wardens”. This includes vulnerability management and response as necessary.
  • Maintains security policies and controls in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Delivery of security and compliance programs (SOC2, GDPR, ISO27001, etc).
  • Periodic security policy and security practices reviews.
  • Contribute public trust content via our website, FAQ, trust centre and other assets.
  • Respond to Security questionnaires and Q&A in support of the sales team.
  • Oversee security awareness onboarding and refresher training for staff, with related assets.
  • Lead security reviews of internal purchases.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other folks in minority groups tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. You can find more about diversity and inclusion at Qwilr here.


👁‍🗨 Find out more

At Qwilr, we go to work to do our life's best work and be great to one another, backed by principles for collaboration and ways of working.


These aren't just words... we back this up in the practices we follow, in the conversations we have, and in the decisions we make. We are serious about always improving how we as Engineers, Product Managers & Designers work together to keep decision-making light-weight and open. Working at Qwilr means you will have a real voice in decisions, plans and ways of working. We believe in creating a place where you can do your life's best work in a great team.


At Qwilr, we've packaged up the perfect way to create documents: amazing, design-perfect pages, which anyone can create.

They come with payment, e-sign, easy integration into your CRM, and all the other functionality you wish your old PDF documents had.

We have made a beautiful product that solves customers' needs, and that in turn has made us a strong business, with a multi-million dollar ARR, consistent growth and incredibly low churn.

It's now time for us to scale this growth and we want you to come and be part of it.


Perks

  • Meaningful equity  
  • Amazing company-wide retreats every year (to be resumed ASAP post COVID)
  • Budget for getting your work station spruced up at home and/or in the office
  • $1000 - 2500 for further education, conferences and books 
  • Leave for holidays, sick days, mental health, volunteer days, those terrible period cramps and when life happens
  • A balance between office collaboration and working from home
  • Parent-friendly, and support for flexible working arrangements
  • But, the real benefit is that at Qwilr you'll get to do challenging, rewarding work with smart and dedicated teammates.

Our Team


Interested?

We'd love to hear from you.