At Ready Education, we are deeply committed to improving student success and college graduation rates worldwide by crafting digital experiences that build community and increase student engagement. We are a SaaS company with 725+ campus partners and 7M+ students actively using our platform. We have a diverse and world class team poised for our next phase of rapid growth.

The global Security Manager will be a governance risk and compliance role that is responsible for executing processes to identify and measure security risks and communicating whether the deployment of Ready Education’s security controls meet defined risk tolerance, confidentiality, compliance, regulatory and customer requirements. In this role, the senior Security subject matter expert will collaborate across the teams including engineering, product and other business units to ensure that risks are measured and defined within the context of the higher education domain.

In this role, you will

• Provide subject matter expertise on areas of privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Research current state, federal, and international privacy regulations relevant in the higher education industry and help translate them into business security procedures and guidelines.
• Identify key business process and technology initiatives needed to ensure compliance with developing laws and regulatory frameworks, such as SOC2, GDPR, HEC-VAT, TX-RAMP and others that are applicable to our business
• Help develop privacy policies for new product features that mitigate compliance risk with state, federal, and international privacy regulations.
• Help develop programs focused on the delivery of a robust privacy compliance and monitoring function for Ready Education.
• Manage annual penetration and vulnerability testing plans and vendor relationships
• Work in partnership with the senior leaders to provide strategic vision, prioritization and direction for technology and create execution plans for long-range and short term projects

• Help to develop a holistic global privacy framework that ties our internal standards, policies, and procedures to global privacy regulations.
• Participate in third-party risk assessments and audits including SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA risk assessments
• Manage the enterprise-wide, role-based information security awareness and training program

You should have

• At least 4+ years of Security, Data Privacy and Compliance Analysis for enterprise-level SaaS platforms
• Working knowledge and experience with CCPA, GDPR, LGPD, and COPPA
• Are experienced with agile development practices and experience with JIRA project management software

• Understanding of Governance, Risk and Compliance best practices and methodologies such as PIIA, HIPAA, SOC2, GDPR

• Stays current with advancements in technology and techniques to ensure that risk and security solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned with industry and company standards
• Knowledge of enterprise level security systems and implementation procedures, corporate and government security regulations, security software products, domain structures, user authentication, user profiles, and digital signatures
• Experience collaboration with infrastructure teams to improve security processes, patterns, and frameworks for AWS-centric platforms

• Knowledge of technical security controls and technologies (e.g. IDS, IPS, traditional, NextGen and Web Application Firewalls)

• Experience delivering strategic and tactical Security guidance for IT, Engineering, Product, Design and DevOps initiatives.

We live our values everyday through our work. Here’s what you can expect and what we’re looking for:

• Put Student Success First: Ready Education exists to improve student success. As a Manager, Information Security on the team, you will work to support our people to provide a secure platform that is successfully utilized by our 725+ campuses, and with every decision, always put the student at heart.
• Accomplish More As a Team: our team here at Ready comprises passionate, hardworking people who support, care for, and challenge each other to achieve wins together. We learn from each other and embrace creative tension to ensure the best idea wins. We collaborate to solve problems together.
• Have a Learning Mentality: we are looking for intellectually curious people who never stop learning and growing and embrace change, which is essential at a constantly evolving tech company. You will continuously push yourself and others around you to improve and evolve.
• Move Fast and Innovate: to be successful at Ready, you will need to be self-motivated and work autonomously. You will need to have excellent judgment and decision-making skills to solve problems and move forward quickly.

This is a remote role based anywhere in North America

Ready Education is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.