At Phantom, security is core to the product and the reason why millions of people trust Phantom to securely store their crypto assets. As a Head of Security you will be leading our security team, making decisions that affects everything from how we work, to how our users access their private keys. Join us on our mission to make the digital economy safe and easy to use for everyone.

This role is fully remote; however, we’re only open to candidates based in US and EU time zones.

Responsibilities

• Security Vision: Set the strategic vision for Phantom’s security organization and oversee all corporate and IT security. Expand Phantom’s security initiatives around threat modeling, monitoring, response to threats, security architecture and SDLC.
• Team Building: Help scale, hire, manage and retain top technical, security talent.
• Set the Culture: Develop company-wide security policies and processes, cross-functionally working with the founders and other engineering leaders to ensure our team and product are secure.
• Impact the Product: Have input on product and engineering decisions that affect millions of users and billions of dollar’s worth of crypto assets. Help push the boundaries of what self-custody means in web3.
• Impact the Industry: Work with other security leaders across the industry, from our investors (a16z, Paradigm), allied companies (blockchain projects, other wallets) and security partners (Halborn, Trail of Bits). Help define what Trust & Safety means in web3.

Qualifications

• 7+ years full-time security software engineering experience.
• 3+ years full-time engineering management or director experience.
• Experience with application security, mobile security, network security, SDLC security, threat modeling, secure coding, authentication and cryptography.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills. You should be able to guide others on the team through security practices and exercises.
• Blockchain experience is desirable, but not a prerequisite.