Chief information security officer (ciso) / directeur de la sécurité de l'information

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Who We Are

Insurity empowers insurance organizations to quickly capitalize on new opportunities by delivering the world’s most configurable, cloud-native, easy-to-use, and intuitively analytical insurance software. Just as importantly, we empower our people—providing the tools, support, and opportunities they need to grow and succeed.

We don’t just make bold promises—we deliver results. As the largest cloud-based software provider for the Property & Casualty market, Insurity is trusted by 22 of the top 25 P&C carriers and 7 of the top 10 wholesale brokers in the MGA space. Behind that trust is a team that delivers exceptional value and deep industry expertise.

While our technology sets us apart, it’s our people who truly make the difference. At Insurity, you’ll collaborate with some of the most creative and knowledgeable minds in insurance tech—in a culture that fosters innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning. Our award-winning onboarding experience welcomes and supports you from the moment you accept our offer.

Ready to grow your career with an industry leader? Apply today—we’re excited to welcome you. #UatInsurity

Insurity’s Next Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Insurity is seeking a strategic, operational, and technically credible Chief Information Security Officer to lead Insurity’s enterprise security, cybersecurity risk and privacy programs.

The CISO will protect Insurity’s information assets, products, customer environments, and technology ecosystem while enabling growth, cloud adoption, international expansion, and responsible use of artificial intelligence. This leader will translate cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, and technology risk into clear business decisions for executive leadership and the Board.

The successful candidate will combine executive presence with practical execution. They need to be comfortable setting strategy, leading through influence, engaging with customers executives and regulators, directing major incidents, reviewing architecture, and building the processes, team, and culture required for a growing SaaS company.

What Our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Will Do

• Enterprise security strategy and governance
• HIPAA, PHI data protection
• AI security, governance, and responsible adoption
• Risk management, compliance, and assurance
• Security operations and incident response
• Product, application, cloud, and infrastructure security
• Third-party risk, customer trust, and commercial enablement
• Leadership, organization, and culture

Who We’re Looking For

A strategic leader and builder who can establish vision, create alignment, and execute through influence.

A credible executive communicator who can brief the Board, lead a crisis, engage customers, and explain complex issues in simple terms.

A pragmatic security leader who balances risk reduction, business enablement, customer commitments, speed, and cost.

A collaborative partner to Engineering, Product, IT, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, Finance, Sales, Customer Success, and executive leadership.

A calm, decisive leader who can operate effectively in high-pressure, high-stakes situations.

A leader who is comfortable working hands-on when necessary while building a scalable team and operating model.

Required qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in information security, computer science, information technology, business, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in information security, cybersecurity, technology risk, or related disciplines within a SaaS, cloud, technology, insurance, healthcare, or other regulated environment.
• At least 5 years of executive or senior leadership experience in a CISO, Deputy CISO, Head of Security, or comparable role.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating an enterprise security program across a distributed or remote organization.
• Experience with HIPAA, ePHI, Business Associate requirements, healthcare data protection, or comparable regulated-data obligations.
• Demonstrated experience leading security risk assessments, audits, remediation programs, and regulatory or customer assurance activities.
• Experience leading material incidents, crisis response, business continuity, disaster recovery, and executive communications.
• Experience establishing or operating an AI security, AI governance, responsible AI, model-risk, or secure-generative-AI program.
• Strong understanding of cloud, SaaS operating models, identity, encryption, application security, vulnerability management, incident response, and third-party risk.
• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, partners, vendors, priorities, and complex cross-functional programs.

Preferred qualifications

• CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, CCSP, or equivalent certification.
• Experience with SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, NIST AI RMF, or comparable frameworks.
• Experience with AI/ML security, LLM security, agent security, model risk management, AI impact assessments, or AI red teaming.
• Experience supporting customer security reviews, RFPs, renewals, and executive-level trust discussions.
• Experience in insurance technology, property and casualty insurance, healthcare technology, or another data-intensive regulated industry.
• Experience with cyber-risk quantification, cyber insurance, secure software supply chains, DevSecOps, and cloud-native security.

What’s In It For U

• Work Where You Thrive
• Take Time When You Need It
• Benefits That Start on Day One
• Living Our Values Every Day
• Award-Winning Onboarding
• Grow Your Career from Within
• Mentorship That Matters
• Insurity Podcasts
• Keep Learning, Always
• Invest in Your Future—And Your Family’s
• Earn When You Refer

We have five Core Values at Insurity; one of which is to Act with Integrity. Providing pay transparency helps you make the best decision for you. We continuously analyze and update our salary ranges for our roles according to market trends to not only ensure our employees are paid fairly, but also help close gender, race, and disability wage gaps. Along with the benefits listed above, the career level salary range for this role is $216,000 to $325,000. We share a career level salary as a guideline; however, actual salary may vary based on your experience and qualifications. If your application advances, your recruiter will review these details with you during a video interview.

Languages for Québec candidates: The knowledge of French is required for positions permanently located in Quebec. The English language is required for this position in order to communicate with clients, partners, and colleagues, who are strictly located outside of Québec. French-language training will be offered to candidates who do not have a good knowledge of French.

Insurity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional work environment for all our employees by extending a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into the very fabric of our organization. We embrace differences and diversity of identity, experience, and thought, and actively strive for inclusive behaviors across our company.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and/or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Thank you for your interest in Insurity! Please understand that due to the volume of applicants we receive, only selected candidates will be contacted.

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