Chief Information Security Officer

2 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) will be a key leader at Nightfall AI, responsible for protecting sensitive data and enabling secure collaboration. This role requires a strategic thinker with a technical background to oversee data security across various platforms like SaaS, email, and endpoints, including the integration of AI. Responsibilities include developing and implementing security strategies, managing security operations, ensuring compliance, and staying abreast of evolving threats. The CISO will work closely with the founders to drive operational excellence and cultural enhancements within the organization, ensuring information flows efficiently. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to make decisions with incomplete information while streamlining processes and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Must have:
  • Prior experience in revenue operations, management consulting, or similar roles.
  • Technical background or comfort with technical content.
  • Thrives on multitasking and comfortable with ambiguity.
  • Fluency with modern tools for productivity and collaboration.
  • Intellectually curious about data security and AI.
  • Ability to make recommendations and decisions with incomplete information.
  • Excels at open-ended projects, structuring and execution.
  • Open-minded, adaptable, and passionate about achieving goals.
  • Not intimidated by contracts or negotiations.
  • Effective, precise, and concise communicator.
  • High attention to detail and a data-driven mindset.
Good to have:
  • Passion for entrepreneurship or desire to be a founder someday.

Job Details

Nightfall AI (www.nightfall.ai) is the unified platform that prevents data leaks and enables secure collaboration by protecting sensitive data and controlling how it's shared. For decades, legacy data leak prevention (DLP) solutions have failed to adequately protect sensitive information. Traditional DLP is outdated, intrusive, and complex - it wasn't designed for today's modern enterprise where users continuously share data across interconnected SaaS applications, endpoints, and now generative AI. Nightfall AI is the first AI-native DLP solution. We leverage AI to achieve twice the accuracy with a fraction of the false positives that overwhelm security teams. Nightfall does this without disrupting modern work patterns. Our AI-native platform spans sensitive data protection across SaaS, email, data exfiltration prevention on SaaS, endpoints, and data encryption. Nightfall's Developer Platform provides an open, flexible environment for developers to integrate our data classification and protection capabilities anywhere, including establishing trust boundaries for AI model building and consumption.

About the Position

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial generalist to join Nightfall in a high-impact role. You will work directly with the founders across all aspects of the company's needs and the business and will report to the company's CEO. The role is cross functional and cuts across revenue operations, HR, and strategic projects. This role is for you if you're interested in broad exposure to many business functions and people at an extremely fast pace. In this role, you will innovate new programs from scratch, engage cross-functionally, and operate with high ownership.

Responsibilities

  • Drive strategic sales operations by partnering with GTM leadership to optimize sales strategy, planning, forecasting, compensation, enablement, and efficiency, while identifying growth opportunities and streamlining processes to maximize revenue impact
  • Execute ad hoc projects as directed by the founders
  • Drive operational excellence and culture by managing key people initiatives and cross-functional collaboration to enhance employee experience and organizational effectiveness
  • Understand all departments and their respective people, goals, and projects; Jump in and fill to move key priorities forward; Streamline processes and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Recognize opportunities and execute them with direct approval from the founders
  • Innovate new tools, processes, campaigns, and growth strategies from the ground up; Scope and deliver proof of concepts and bring new ideas to fruition from start to finish
  • Ensure information moves fluidly across the organization; Prepare briefings for all meetings; Transfer knowledge from meetings to appropriate team members; Help build systems to share information and to institutionalize knowledge gained
  • Refine and communicate founder priorities or company positioning to others in the company and in the market
  • Help structure deals and diligence potential partnership and investment opportunities

Qualifications

  • Prior experience in revenue operations, management consulting, private equity, or venture capital or has served in a Chief of Staff or General Manager capacity previously
  • Technical background or comfort with technical content
  • Thrives on multitasking & comfort with ambiguity
  • Fluency with modern tools for productivity and collaboration
  • Intellectually curious about data security and AI
  • Willing to make recommendations and decisions with incomplete information
  • Excels at receiving an open-ended project or challenge, putting structure to it, and getting it done effectively with limited guidance
  • Open-minded, adaptable, and has a passion for finding ways to accomplish the goal
  • Not intimidated by contracts or negotiations
  • Effective, precise, and concise communicator
  • High attention to detail, precision, and data-driven mindset

Bonus Points

  • You want to be a founder someday, and/or are passionate about entrepreneurship
  • You're excited to have tons of autonomy and responsibility right out the gate

About Nightfall:

Nightfall is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in modern organizations is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud data silos, and it’s a herculean task for security & compliance teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for organizations to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and even their own apps. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We’re a technology startup founded in San Francisco, well-funded by leading institutional investors like Bain and Venrock, and a cadre of security & IT leaders from Okta, Salesforce, Atlassian, Splunk, FireEye, and more. Learn more on our website www.nightfall.ai or by reaching out via email at careers@nightfall.ai.

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About The Company

Nightfall AI is the leader in cloud data loss prevention (DLP) for generative AI (GenAI) tools, SaaS apps, and custom apps. Download our Chrome browser plugin or integrate via APIs to protect PII, PHI, PCI, secrets, and keys across apps like ChatGPT, Slack, GitHub, Confluence, Google Drive, and more. After just a few minutes of installation, you’ll be equipped to stay secure and compliant wherever you are in the cloud—all while streamlining your security workload through real-time alerts, automated remediation actions, and pre-built detection templates.


Join hundreds of leading companies such as Oscar Health, Splunk, Exabeam, and more that trust Nightfall to protect their most sensitive data.

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