HQ - CISO - EMEA Remote

Join us to shape the future of work: your next adventure awaits! About the Role Job&Talent is looking for a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to own and lead the company's global information security strategy, organization, and execution. Reporting directly to the CTO, the CISO will be responsible for protecting Job&Talent's technology, infrastructure, products, corporate environment, and data while enabling the company to move quickly and safely. Job&Talent operates a large-scale technology product supporting critical workforce processes, including hiring, worker management, clocking, payroll-related workflows, and increasingly AI-powered capabilities. This creates a broad security surface spanning cloud infrastructure, SaaS, endpoints, identity, product security, sensitive personal data, AI systems, third-party vendors, and multiple regulatory environments. The CISO will therefore need to combine deep technical security expertise, strong operational execution, risk management, GRC understanding, and executive leadership. We are looking for someone who can understand how systems actually work, identify the risks that matter, prioritize them pragmatically, and build the technology, processes, teams, and culture required to address them. What you'll own Strategy, Leadership & Executive Oversight • Own and continuously evolve Job&Talent's global information security strategy and roadmap, ensuring security investment is aligned with the company's actual risk profile and business priorities. • Translate technical security risks into clear business risks and provide the CTO and executive team with an accurate view of the company's security posture. • Establish measurable security objectives, KPIs, KRIs and risk-acceptance processes. • Build a security organization capable of supporting a fast-moving global technology company without creating unnecessary friction for Engineering or the business. Product, Application & Cloud Security • Own the security lifecycle across Job&Talent's products and engineering organization, including threat modelling, architecture reviews, secure development, application and supply-chain security, vulnerability management and security testing. • Own security architecture across cloud infrastructure and platform environments, ensuring security is embedded into architecture and technology decisions from the beginning. • Partner closely with Engineering, Platform and SRE to integrate security into development and infrastructure processes. • Provide appropriate security governance for AI-powered products, agents, and LLM integrations. Identity, Corporate & Data Security • Own security across Job&Talent's corporate technology environment, including identity and access management, privileged access, endpoint and SaaS security, and corporate network security. • Drive the organization toward a Zero Trust model where access decisions consider identity, device posture, risk, and context. • Own the technical controls required to protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle, including data access, encryption, monitoring and data-loss prevention. • Partner closely with Legal, Privacy and the DPO on applicable privacy requirements while maintaining a clear distinction between privacy governance and technical security ownership. Security Operations & Incident Response • Build and continuously improve Job&Talent's ability to detect, investigate, contain and recover from security incidents. • Own security monitoring, detection engineering, incident response and threat intelligence capabilities. • Ensure significant security incidents are handled with strong operational discipline and effective coordination across technical, business and executive stakeholders. • Drive continuous improvement through incident reviews, remediation and lessons learned. Governance, Risk & Third-Party Security • Maintain and evolve Job&Talent's security management framework, risk management and compliance pr