Field Chief Security Officer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 260000 - 320000
Posted on:
10 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.About the Role:
Glean is seeking a Field CSO to serve as Gleans executive customerfacing security leader for prospects and customers. You will build trust with CISOs CIOs Chief Risk/Privacy Officers and security architects by translating Gleans security and AI governance model into their business regulatory and technical context. Youll advise on secure deployments accelerate security reviews (DPIAs/PIAs vendor assessments) help remove risk blockers in complex deals and become the voice of the field back to Product Security Legal and GTM. This role is not our corporate CISO. It is an externalfacing executive advisor role aimed at helping customers successfully operationalize Glean securely and at scale.
You will:
- Act as the primary executive security advisor for named strategic accounts partnering with Sales SE and CS to shape security strategy deployment patterns and program design for Gleans Work AI platform.
- Lead and expedite security due diligence: DPIAs/PIAs vendor risk assessments data flow documentation LLMrelated risk mitigations and control mapping to frameworks (e.g. SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA GDPR FedRAMPadjacent asks TXRAMP).
- Build compelling risk narratives and decision memos for Csuite and Boards that connect security privacy and compliance outcomes to measurable business value and adoption.
- Serve as an executive title match in latestage cycles; join roadmap and architecture reviews to clear risk blockers and accelerate timetovalue.
- Security strategy enablement and thought leadership
- Publish and present Gleans AI security and governance point of view (talks webinars whitepapers playbooks) with pragmatic guidance on topics like singletenant SaaS customerhosted deployments data residency encryption and key management permissions mirroring and agent guardrails.
- Develop reusable artifacts for the field: RFP/RFI security templates reference architectures policy/control mappings DPIA/PIA kits incident communications templates SIEM export and audit logging guides.
- Partner with Glean Product Security/Privacy and Legal on voice of customer for features and policies (e.g. residency SIEM/audit integrations data lifecycle model controls redteaming promptinjection defenses allow/deny model policies).
- Customer outcomes and governance
- Codesign adoption and governance programs with customer security IT data and privacy teams including rolebased access retention redaction secrets and PII controls and ongoing audit practices.
- Advise on AI governance operating models: risk tiering for use cases humanintheloop controls evaluation gates and production guardrails for agents and workflows.
- Establish success metrics tied to security and business value (e.g. security review cycle time audit coverage sensitive data exposure reduction adoption growth in highrisk teams).
- Internal collaboration
- Partner tightly with Sales Engineering Customer Success and Support to create repeatable guidance for regulated and complex environments.
- Inform roadmap priorities with fieldvalidated requirements for security posture (e.g. model hub control connector scopes data egress minimization RBAC/ABAC audit exports).
- 10 years in information security with executivelevel customer engagement; former CISO/CSO Deputy CISO Security Architect/Strategist or advisory CISO experience strongly preferred.
- Deep command of enterprise security and cloud/SaaS controls: identity/SSO leastprivilege encryption at rest/in transit key management audit logging/SIEM data residency/sovereignty and thirdparty risk.
- Handson familiarity with major frameworks and regulatory needs: SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 GDPR/DPAs HIPAA and public sector expectations (e.g. TXRAMP; familiarity with FedRAMP requirements helpful).
- Demonstrated experience guiding customers through DPIAs/PIAs vendor assessments and contractual security annexes; ability to compress complex risk into clear executive decisions.
- Practical understanding of AI/LLM security risks and mitigations: retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) security prompt injection defenses jailbreak resistance model access policies and agent guardrails aligned to source permissions.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with Csuite and boards; proven impact in latestage deals and customer expansions.
- Credible thought leadership (talks blogs standards bodies community contributions) and strong industry network among CISOs and security architects.
- Experience with singletenant SaaS and customerhosted deployment models; background working with GCP/AWS controls privacy impact assessments and regional hosting.
- Familiarity with data security posture management sensitive data detection and remediation programs and audit/reporting patterns for enterprise security teams.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP CISM CCSP ISO 27001 Lead Implementer CRISC). Equivalent experience will be considered.
Location:
- This role is remote
- Preferred locations in Palo Alto San Francisco Nashville or New York City
The standard base salary range for this position is $260000.00 - $320000.00 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
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Required Experience:
Chief
Key Skills
- Business
- Criminal Justice
- Security Management
- Compliance
- Clearance
- General Managements
- Security Requirements
- Security Systems
- General studies
- Access Control
- Security Procedures
- Information Security
- Risk Assessments
- Security Issues
- Physical Security
About Company
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