Vendor Security Analyst

Pinterest • Chicago, IL

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

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Pinterest’s Security team (Pinfosec) is seeking an experienced Vendor Security Analyst to conduct assessments of our vendors and help drive vendor and third-party security initiatives to keep our users, employees, and infrastructure safe from third-party security risk. You will have the opportunity to support the improvement of our vendor security program and GRC initiatives and provide meaningful impact in minimizing risk for Pinterest. You’re passionate about security innovation, and able to vet third-party solutions while minimizing employee friction and maximizing productivity.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience performing vendor security risk analysis for new and existing vendors
• Experience supporting the design, management, and building of security programs and best practices
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g. PCI, GDPR, SOC2, ISO27001, NIST CSF)
• Good understanding of various security domains
• Strong sense of ownership and comfortable with autonomy and ambiguity
• Great communicator who is comfortable leading meetings and audit type interviews with vendors
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or other cognitive function, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Perform vendor security assessments in order to minimize risk from third-party services
• Support the Vendor Security lead to Maintain and improve the vendor security program while working closely with Security, Legal, IT and other internal stakeholders
• Ensure vendor security issues are identified, communicated, and remediated to an acceptable level of risk
• Act as the SME for High Priority Vendor Security Reviews (e.g. AI related tooling)
• Interface with other teams and take a leadership role in driving vendor security initiatives
• Manage the MSSP for Vendor Security when the Vendor Security Lead is unavailable
• Act as the Vendor Security SME for the Onspring Risk Register and manage the maintenance and updating of Vendor Security related exceptions
• Support Pinterest’s Security Governance, Risk & Compliance program on an ad hoc basis such as; Be responsible for the monthly review and maintenance of security awareness training metrics, assist in the update of security policies from time to time, assist in the audit evidence gathering for SOC 2 Type 2 compliance as required, assist in the completion of security questionnaires from Pinterest’s advertisers
• You will be required to have a thorough understanding of security concepts, but you will not need to have coding experience

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees