Director, Platform Security

Gemini•San Francisco, NY

25d•Hybrid

About The Position

Gemini is a global crypto and Web3 platform founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in 2014, offering a wide range of simple, reliable, and secure crypto products and services to individuals and institutions in over 70 countries. Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom by providing trusted access to the decentralized future. We envision a world where crypto reshapes the global financial system, internet, and money to create greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all — bridging traditional finance with the emerging cryptoeconomy in a way that is more open, fair, and secure. As a publicly traded company, Gemini is poised to accelerate this vision with greater scale, reach, and impact. Gemini takes a cloud-first approach to our services, platforms, and vendors, allowing the organization to continue scaling with hypergrowth hiring, innovative product development, and demanding customer needs. To achieve that scale securely, Gemini has a dedicated Platform Security team whose mission is to enable the business to achieve secure-by-design architectures, implement best-in-class security technologies, and help our engineering partners to achieve security success easily & confidently. To further that mission, we’re looking for a new leader to join the existing team to take our vision, strategy, internal partnerships, business alignment, & technical expertise to the next stage of maturity. At Gemini, our best leaders lead from the trenches—we need this Director to remain hands-on, contributing code and technical solutions alongside their team as needed to unblock work, maintain technical context, and lead by example. This role is required to be in person twice a week at either our San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY office.

Requirements

5+ years of leadership experience for cloud-native engineering and/or security teams, with a strong preference for Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based organizations
10+ years of direct, technical experience in relevant roles (e.g., Platform Engineering, Security)
Strong experience in AWS, EKS (Kubernetes), IAM, Terraform, GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Experience leveraging industry security frameworks & standards that act as the basis of maturing the overall security program and enable successful business outcomes
Comfortable with hiring & scaling a team
Prior success in leading a team through organizational change management, with a strong preference for start-up experience in a technology-centric business
Able to easily communicate with technical stakeholders at their level, hearing their feedback and translating those needs or concerns into program-level outcomes
Pragmatic about security requirements, ignoring “best practices” that don’t make sense to the needs of the business by leveraging your team’s expertise for decision making
Strong written and verbal communication skills with an attention to detail

Responsibilities

Strategic and technical leadership of Gemini's Platform Security team
Align team-wide strategy with the needs of the business, internal partners, & peer Security leadership
Enable the ongoing success & growth of the team through creation of hiring plans and hands-on mentorship
Establish a Platform Security roadmap for initiatives that will provide ever-increasing maturity of capabilities for stakeholders, while also reducing toil through automation
Foster trust-centric relationships with key partner teams, ensuring that their voices are heard and needs are being met, while achieving excellent security outcomes together
Lead the development of security policies, procedures, standards, & guidelines that will guide functional security outcomes with all GRC and Audits needs being met
Determine program KPIs that will meaningfully highlight where we’re succeeding, or falling short of, the mission we aim to accomplish for the business
Provide guidance through lived-experience and industry awareness on the different approaches to architecture, security engineering, and business-achievement goals
Define a customer-first process, choosing to provide self-service solutions that minimize friction, create agility, and provide value-oriented ways to solve problems
Manage relevant third-party vendor relationships, leading the determination of when & why to “build” vs. “buy” in response to gaps in capabilities the business may have