Security Assurance Lead

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 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 fully remote, highly collaborative 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! 

This role will lead the design and execution of our Customer Security Assurance program. In this role you will be the voice of security with our customers and be responsible for building the long term plan that builds the trust needed to accomplish Datavant’s vision of connecting the world's healthcare data. If you appreciate that security is not just a cost-center, but a competitive advantage, this role will enable you to lead us building trust and growing our business by leveraging our strong security program. We will be the best in industry at security, and you will help us bring this to life!

You Will:

• Develop a world-class and sustainable customer assurance program supporting the activities which help us build trust with external parties.
• Coordinate and manage responses to customer enquiries, including contributing to Request for Proposals (RFP), automating responses to customer security enquiries, and diligence assessments. Including attending customer security calls.
• Mature customer facing security documentation such as security white papers and frequently asked questions.
• Own and improve software and tooling used for assurance activities. 
• Partner with our go-to-market and marketing teams and be a thought leader for security at the company and in the market, help create content (blogs, white papers, FAQs, etc.) and discuss and share accurate information regarding our security programs. 
• Understand the impact of security in our go-to-market pipeline, report on trends and help us improve how we invest in security.
• Support our legal teams in contract review activities to ensure security contract clauses are appropriate.
• Develop metrics and reporting to demonstrate the status and progress of the customer assurance and trust program.

You Will Bring to the Table:

• Experience building and leading programs focussed on customer assurance and trust. Including working in or closely with Security & Compliance teams and responding to customer security enquiries, meeting with customers and discussing security programs with them.
• Implemented tooling and self-service capabilities that improved the efficiency of customer assurance activities.
• Awareness and understanding of common security certifications such as SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO27001, HITRUST etc.
• Knowledge of security programs and controls based 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. 

Bonus Points If:

• You have Security or Audit Certifications (CISSP, CISSA etc)
• You have experience supporting security assurance and trust activities for public sector and/or healthcare system customers.

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.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. We can only see aggregate responses and are unable to view individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not! Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.