About Super.com

We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.

We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.

About the role

As the Head of Security at Super.com, you'll be our most senior and accountable security leader. You'll define and drive our security roadmap, staff and manage our security function, navigate our risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and help us deliver a safe and secure product to our customers. You'll report to our Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, and work closely with leaders across Legal, Data, Engineering, Product, Finance and HR while maintaining direct access to our executive team and board. Expect high autonomy, frequent collaboration, a fast pace, and reliance on your own initiative. You'll leverage your years of technology leadership experience to define what success looks like, and to align your organization's outcomes closely with company-level objectives. This is a strategic and technical role that requires scaling your impact across AI tools, team leadership, cross-functional partnerships, and individual contributions.

About the team

Reflecting our rapid growth, Super.com is actively expanding our security function. This Security & IT organization is responsible for IT, GRC, Product Security and Corporate security. This organization has two arms: A security engineering team covering application and infrastructure security reports to you directly, with day-to-day technical leadership from a Staff engineer. An IT & Compliance function covering IT, GRC, and Corporate Security is led by a Director who also reports to you. This team exists within the broader Infrastructure Engineering organization alongside the Quality, Sales/Support Engineering, and DevOps/Platform functions. This is a fast-paced team with broad scope, high autonomy, and close collaboration across other departments.

What you’ll be working on:

• Building out the team: You'll lead hiring for engineers, GRC staff, and SOC partners.

• You'll manage reports ranging in experience from junior IC to Staff and Director level, providing mentorship and directing them toward impactful opportunities.

• Own OKR setting and broad strategic planning across Security related domains

• Mature our governance, risk, & compliance functions, including: Expanding our control framework with automated evidence, policy lifecycle, risk management, and managing privacy obligations in partnership with Legal.

• Champion an AI-first security program: direct the continued build-out of our AI-native vulnerability management and detection tooling, provide safety while the company adopts AI, and use AI to scale the team’s output well beyond its headcount.

• Set the security culture: training, secure-by-default patterns, developer enablement, and clear expectations so every team ships securely without waiting on Security.

• Ensure our customers are protected and our product is secure through experienced tool selection, organization structure, and well directed security team focus.

• Provide technical direction and final say on security architecture across Engineering

• You'll be accountable to the board for overall security posture and risk acceptance
  

What we’re looking for:

• 10+ years in security, including 4+ years leading a security function or major pillar, and experience managing managers/directors and senior technical leaders (Staff+).

• Owned company-level security strategy, budget, and outcomes end-to-end at a fast-paced technology company

• Hands-on history in at least two of: application / product security, infra security, detection & incident response, enterprise IT & identity, and GRC.

• Proven success supporting fast-paced software development teams at scale.

• Stood up or scaled a GRC program: control frameworks, evidence automation, policy, and privacy program management. Experience with frameworks such as SOX, GDPR, PCI, SOC2, and/or ISO27001.

• Presented to and worked directly with a Board or Audit Committee, and with external auditors, regulators, or QSAs.

• Experience with security risk quantification, acceptance, and translating technical risk into business impact for executive decision-making.

• Strong track record hiring security professionals and developing engineers into technical and people leaders.

• Direct professional experience with and notable outcomes from driving AI transformation in security, engineering, and/ or IT organizations.
  

Our Technology:

• Product services are authored as K8s-based microservices powered by Python FastAPI backends and TypeScript React front-end code.

• Apps are built upon Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Snowflake.

• Our infrastructure runs on AWS and leverages hosted infrastructure technologies such as EKS, MSK, Elasticache, and RDS. We use Istio for service mesh, Helm, TF and Crossplane for IAC, and Kyverno for policy-as-code enforcement.

• Vulnerabilities are managed through in-house, AI-native custom tooling that your team develops. We orchestrate open-source tools through this custom platform.

• Security and application logs/metrics/events are managed through Datadog

• Our security stack is currently evolving as we select and quickly roll out new tools. You'll play a deciding role in the selection and deployment of these.

• As an AI-First engineering organization, we leverage modern AI development workflows using tools such as Cursor, Claude, and internally built AI agents to accelerate implementation and iteration across our codebases. You'll help Security drive our rapid AI adoption across tooling, process, and our product.
  

We’ve got you covered:

At Super.com, we believe in supporting our team so they can thrive—both at work and in life.

• Remote-First Flexibility: Work from anywhere in the world and choose the hours that suit you best. We trust you to get great work done on your terms.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy unlimited PTO, company-wide recharge days, and annual team offsites.

• Everyday Perks: Weekly UberEats credits and travel discounts on Super.com help you enjoy the little things.

• Family-Friendly Benefits: We support growing families with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan.

• Comprehensive Compensation: Competitive salary, equity options, and top-tier benefits starting on day one.

• Investing in You: Access to wellness budgets, personal development funds, and team-level learning resources.

At Super.com, we are proud to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology to make our hiring process smarter, faster, and more inclusive. By integrating AI tools into our recruitment, we enhance our ability to identify top talent efficiently while promoting fairness and consistency for every applicant.

Super.com is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify your Talent Acquisition Partner.