Vp Security

**About**: Swan, a European fintech company, is the easiest way to add banking features to your product. This can be called “Banking-as-a-Service” or “Embedded finance”. We built Swan so that anyone can start embedding banking features within just minutes of visiting our website. Swan is truly fast and easy to use. Swan already has 70 customers across 10+ European countries, large enterprise and startups alike. They include Carrefour, Pennylane, Alma, and Ride.Capital. We’re on track to take things much, much further, by embarking on Europe — localizing our product, and internationalizing our team and partner portfolio. Swan has received 21M€ funding from VCs like Accel and Creandum. We’re a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, passported across Europe. We have a hybrid remote-work policy, with 100+ Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin and Barcelona Wherever you’re coming from, come as you are We’re open to all kinds of people, from all walks of life. If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way ***Job description**: Swan is looking for a VP Security to join our leadership team. As a VP Security, your primary responsibility is to ensure the safety and security of the company's digital assets. You will work in collaboration with technology, compliance, and risk management teams to ensure the protection of company data and assets. **Your mission**: - Develop and lead the company's IT security strategy that align with the overall business strategy and objectives. - Evaluate and mitigate IT security risks. - Ensure compliance with IT security regulations. - Manage IT security incidents and investigations. - Collaborate with other departments to promote a culture of security and educate employees on security best practices. - Manage a team of security professionals, including a Security Engineer and IT Manager, to execute on the security roadmap and meet the company's security objectives. **Preferred experience**: **You’re a great match if**: - You have a minimum of 10 years experience in IT security including several year leading security teams and managing people, ideally in a start-up, scale-up, or another fast-paced work environment. - In-depth knowledge of IT security practices and regulatory standards - Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders, including executive teams, business partners, and regulatory authorities - Strong change management skills to successfully implement IT security initiatives and ensure employee buy-in - Strong management skills to lead an IT security team and collaborate with other functional teams - You are an inspiring leader, passionate about developing high-performing teams and excellent at pushing team collaboration to break down silos. - A good culture of technology trends (news, meetups ) - Good working abilities in English and French - Our ideal teammate: Sociable. Skilled. Empathetic. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposture syndrome prevent you from applying **About Swan**: **Perks of being a Swanee**: - ESOP packages available - Flexible remote policy, ask us about it - The best health insurance: Alan - Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib. - We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. - Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax. - This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day. **Our values**: **Be human**: Be straightforward, transparent, and sincerely care. It's all about integrity and doing the right thing. **Ambition**: We’re in this for the long game. We want to transform the entire market, and be the engine for Europe’s next tech champions **Collaboration**: We believe in the power of collective intelligence. We love to challenge others' ideas and be challenged in return. May the best ideas win. **"Move fast, don't break things”**: If we must choose between security and going fast, we choose security. We are in banking, after all. **Make everything simple**: Simplicity. **Recruitment process**: - A 30-min video call with Amélie, our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions - An interview with Mathieu, our CTO - Meet the Security team - An interview with our CEO/COO