Head of Cybersecurity

*Please note this role is available to candidates based in Poland and Spain*

A career at Booksy means you’re part of a global team focused on helping people around the world feel great about themselves, every day. From empowering entrepreneurs to build successful businesses to supporting their customers in arranging 'me time' moments, we’re in the business of helping people thrive and feel fantastic.

Working in a rapidly growing, ever-changing scale-up comes with its own set of opportunities and challenges. If you prefer a stable environment, with clear processes and structures then, we've got to be honest, you won't always find that here. However, if you enjoy inventively solving problems with others, helping create clarity when things get confusing, and prioritising your own path within ambiguity, then the chances are that you'll love the opportunities available to grow your career at Booksy.

The people you’ll like to work with and things you'll enjoy impacting:

As Head of Cybersecurity, reporting to the Director of Enterprise Technology in our Security Team, your purpose will be to lead and shape our cybersecurity strategy, ensuring our products and internal systems are protected against emerging threats. You’ll be working closely with security engineers and other leaders across the company, influencing decisions that keep Booksy secure.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and mentoring a team of five security engineers (AppSec and DFIR).
• Defining and executing the cybersecurity roadmap aligned with business needs.
• Collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to ensure security is prioritised.
• Staying ahead of security trends and emerging threats to evolve our security posture.
• Ensuring compliance with industry cybersecurity regulations and best practices.

Essentially, to ensure you succeed in this role you’re going to need…

• Sound experience in cybersecurity engineering. Senior level knowledge in at least two of the following areas (AppSec, CloudSec, NetSec, Security Monitoring, DFIR, Threat Intelligence, Endpoint Security)
• Proven experience in setting up and leading cybersecurity strategies.
• Hands-on skills – ability to step in and code/configure if needed.
• Collaboration skills – influencing teams rather than enforcing security by authority.
• Expertise in modern cloud-native security (GCP, AWS, SaaS, CI/CD)
• Additionally, experience with modern software development life cycle (CI/CD pipelines, frequent changes, automation)

It will also help you to have…

• Experience with incident response and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of cutting-edge security tools and frameworks.
• Strong relationships with cybersecurity vendors.

Some of the benefits we offer:

• This is a fully remote position, we take pride in being a globally distributed team.
• Private medical care - terms depends on location.
• Access to wellbeing tools (Worksmile and Officevibe).
• Our other benefits will vary due to your location, please ask your talent partner for more detail.

Our Diversity and Inclusion Commitment:

We work in a highly creative and diverse industry, so it goes without saying that we strive to create an inclusive environment for all. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fair consideration in our hiring process. If you have any accessibility needs or require reasonable adjustments during the interview process, please contact us at [email protected], so we can best support you.

Kindly submit your application and CV in English to ensure it is successfully reviewed.

Originally posted on Himalayas