Head of Application Security
Datavant is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data. By eliminating data silos in the healthcare industry, we aim to unlock opportunities to accelerate clinical data exchange, medical research, and help organizations design better ways to facilitate access, affordability, and quality of care leading to better patient outcomes.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, fully remote team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We look for people who are smart, nice and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team (no office locations) and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs -- learn more here!
Datavant’s applications handle some of the most sensitive information that exists, healthcare data. Our mission is to eliminate vulnerabilities that may impact our applications and the security of this data. This is not just a security, but a company level goal. This role will be the leader on the team responsible for making this happen. You will help us build the plan, implement the tools and foster our engineering teams through the journey to become the most secure development environment. If you have been looking for a company that will back and truly prioritize this vision, we want to talk to you.
You Will:
- Lead the team responsible for building a world-class product security function, supporting a step change in the maturity of our program
- Own Product and Application Security strategy and priorities
- Partner with our engineering and development team leaders in order to drive higher quality and more secure applications
- Determine the skill sets needed on the team, develop and execute a hiring plan.
- Coach and build a team of exceptional Security Engineers, supporting their growth
- Present of the maturity, progress and roadmap for the Product & Application Security Program for stakeholders
- Be an active voice, not just at Datavant but in the community to evangelize best security practices
What You Will Bring to the Table:
- 5 or more years of experience leading Product or Application Security capabilities
- Understanding of current threats, vulnerabilities and risks and how to mitigate them
- Understanding of security impacts and controls for applications in cloud environments (AWS)
- Passionate about building a big business that transforms the healthcare industry
- Thrive in a fast-paced autonomous environment
- Excited about the ambiguity of an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company, and able to juggle many projects and responsibilities
- Great communication, prioritization, and project management skills
We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices.
We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact and less by title. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $240,000 - $315,000.
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