Chief Information Security Officer

About Life360

Life360 is on a mission to keep people close to the ones they love. Our category-leading mobile app and Tile tracking devices empower members to protect the people, pets, and things they care about most with a range of services, including location sharing, safe driver reports, and crash detection with emergency dispatch. Life360 serves approximately 66 million monthly active users (MAU) across more than 150 countries. 

Life360 delivers peace of mind and makes everyday family life better with seamless coordination for all the moments that matter, big and small. By continuing to innovate and deliver for our customers, we have become a household name and the must-have mobile-based membership for families (and those friends that basically are family). 

Life360 has more than 500 (and growing!) remote-first employees. For more information, please visit Life360.com.

Life360 is a Remote-First company, which means a remote work environment will be the primary experience for all employees. All positions, unless otherwise specified, can be performed remotely (within the US) regardless of any specified location above. 

About the Team

This newly created CISO position will oversee our security team and be responsible for Product and IT security for Life360's consumer applications and our Tile and Jiobit hardware products. Your goal will be to ensure Life360 becomes the most trusted application in the market, helping grow our members as we expand our offerings to help people protect the people, pets, and things they care about. Sitting between IT and our product and engineering organizations, this dedicated security team will work closely with those two groups while instilling the values that everyone in the company owns security. This spans our consumer applications Life360, Tile, and Jiobit; our hardware devices Tile and Jiobit; and our data and business partnerships. 

What You’ll Do

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead our information security program. As Vice-President and manager of our Security team, you will report to the CTO and will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the enterprise vision, strategy, and programs to ensure information assets and technologies are protected. You will work closely with senior leadership to develop and implement proactive security initiatives, policies, and protocols to create a culture of security at Life360. You excel at making risk assessments and tradeoffs and working with constrained resources to achieve big things. In addition to being an organizational leader, you are also a strong individual contributor, able to jump into the day-to-day of your team and the programs you are driving as needed.

Develop and Implement a Security Strategy:

• Create and execute a comprehensive information security strategy to protect the organization’s assets.
• Align security initiatives with business objectives to support growth and innovation.
• Develop a strategy and roadmap that mitigates and manages exposure and risk.
• Report continuous progress, challenges, and risks to executive leadership.
• Provide thought leadership on security-related regulatory and statutory matters. 
• Take on a leadership role to triage and investigate security incidents, help determine the incident's business impact, and lead the safe and rapid resolution of the problem. 

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate information security risks.
• Conduct regular risk assessments and vulnerability testing.

Policy and Compliance

• Work closely with our compliance team to develop and implement effective and reasonable policies and practices to secure protected and sensitive data and ensure information security and compliance with relevant legislation and legal interpretation.

Organizational Development

• Manage a dedicated security team, developing individuals and promoting organizational health.
• Help establish career pathways for security team members and advocate for the security function.
• Be a hands-on example to the team, establishing ways of working through doing.

Security Operations

• Oversee daily cyber security activities for the entire company to manage risk appropriately, ensure an effective response to incidents, and secure data access and utilization.
• Proactively analyze and directly respond to internal and external threats to system security.
• Develop and implement with our IT organization security tools and technologies (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems, encryption).
• Establish and manage proactive incident response plans.
• Lead the investigation and remediation of security breaches and incidents.

Training and Awareness

• Develop and conduct security awareness training for employees.
• Foster a culture of security awareness across the company.
• Provide direction for Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Efforts, Policies and Procedures, and Record Retention.
• Design the architecture for security programs, including Audit and Compliance, Risk Governance, Security Policies and Procedures, Security Awareness Training.

Collaboration and Communication

• Collaborate with IT, legal, compliance, product, and engineering teams to ensure cohesive security efforts.
• Communicate security risks and strategies to executive leadership and the board of directors.

Vendor Management

• Evaluate and manage relationships with security vendors and service providers.
• Assist in selecting third-party security vendors to assist in our data security capabilities.
• Ensure third-party security measures meet organizational standards.

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in technology, with 10 years of experience in a leadership role
• Minimum of 10 years in information security.
• A strong technical background and experience in bringing technical solutions to address security-related issues while communicating and managing security risks across the leadership team.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms, mobile devices, and IoT devices (preferred).
• Consumer product experience preferred.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing security strategies and programs.
• Strong understanding of current and emerging security technologies and practices.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

Our Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance plans (100% paid for employees)
• 401(k) plan with company matching program
• Mental Wellness Program & Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental well-being
• Flexible PTO, 13 company-wide days off throughout the year
• Winter and Summer week-long synchronized company shutdowns
• Learning & Development programs
• Equipment, tools, and reimbursement support for a productive remote environment
• Free Life360 Platinum Membership for your preferred circle
• Free Tile Products

Life360 Values

Our company’s mission-driven culture is guided by our shared values to create a trusted work environment where you can bring your authentic self to work and make a positive difference 

• Be a Good Person - We have a team of high-integrity people you can trust. 
• Be Direct With Respect - We communicate directly, even when it’s hard.
• Members Before Metrics - We focus on building an exceptional experience for families. 
• High Intensity, High Impact - We do whatever it takes to get the job done. 

Our Commitment to Diversity

We believe that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our customers and the communities we serve. We strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their authentic best selves to work.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Life360. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any legally protected status.