Security Technical Program Manager (TPM)
Afresh is on a mission is to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we've helped our partners prevent 6.9 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you'll join us!
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Security Technical Program Manager to own our security posture, security culture, and InfoSec program. Security plays a key part in building and maintaining the trust of our customers, and plays a critical role as we continue to scale and integrate more customer data. This role will collaborate closely with many functions across the organization to implement security safeguards, manage security risk, and build and maintain trust with our customers and users. As our first in-house security hire, this individual will play a foundational role in helping define and shape how our security organization grows and evolves.
- Work cross-functionally—with Engineering, Product, Deployment, Sales, among others!—and with our security vendors and contractors to ensure a strong security posture and culture
- Own, evolve, and implement our InfoSec program—policies, procedures, and controls—that form the foundation of our InfoSec program
- Own the roadmap and execution of our InfoSec program towards achieving continuous SOC2 compliance
- Surface, prioritize, and track to completion any security assessments, issues, and escalations
- Clearly communicate our InfoSec program to customers and other external parties
- Own and manage security training and awareness programs towards building an organizational culture of security awareness
- Play a key role in building out our security team, consisting both of in-house employees and contractors
Skills and experience
The following represent attributes our ideal candidate possesses. We encourage all highly-qualified candidates with security or compliance experience to apply, even if they do not fulfill all the listed criteria.
- 3+ years of experience managing InfoSec and compliance projects, processes, procedures, and controls in a technical environment, including experience overseeing and completing audits (SOC2, ISO27001, PCI, etc.)
- Excellent communication, leadership, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated technical program management experience in managing and delivering on multiple cross-functional projects
- Ability to take initiative, multitask, prioritize work, and meet deadlines in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment with precision and accuracy
- Experience using and maintaining InfoSec programs via GRC software (e.g., Tugboat Logic) preferred
- Experience working on the security and auditing of various cloud technologies (e.g., Azure) preferred
- Experience working on security as it applies to data integration, onboarding, and management preferred
- Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python) to automate processes, such as audit evidence collection, preferred
- Familiarity with handling customer security assessments preferred
About Afresh
Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we're helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.
Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we've raised over $30 million in funding from investors including Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors and James McCann (former CEO Tesco, Ahold, Carrefour). In 2021, we received an Honorable Mention for Fast Company's World Changing Ideas in Food.
Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.
Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.