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The doctors carry too many patients, everyone arrives at their worst moment, and nobody has their chart. We're making it primary care. January personalizes interactions and optimizes decisions across every stage of consumer credit. We started in the hardest, most broken stage, because if it works there it works anywhere.\nMost consumers want to pay what they owe. They want a way out, not a break. We've serviced over $20 billion in debt across more than 20 million consumers. We see more people with charged-off loans each year than all but the top five US banks. Those consumers rate us about 50% higher than the banks that lent them the money. Creditors net over 30% more because we collect more and charge less.\nMost AI strips the human out of the work. We use it to make someone's hardest financial moment more human. The more human we make it, the more people recover. Now we're moving upstream, catching people before they default and building across every stage of the consumer credit lifecycle. The consumer in collections today is the consumer who gets approved tomorrow.\nAbout the Role\nAs our Head of Security, you'll help us maintain and radically improve a proactive security posture that ensures compliance with industry standards, mitigates real risks, and enhances client confidence in how we handle sensitive data. This role will report directly to the VP of Engineering; expect to drive strategic security initiatives, implement effective monitoring and response systems, and foster a culture of security awareness and excellence within the organization.\nYou will:\nDefine and own the strategy for security engineering, deciding where the real risk is and what we do about it.\n\nHire, mentor, and grow the security engineering team as the function scales.\n\nLead identity and access management across our systems.\n\nDirect security monitoring, detection, and incident response.\n\nOwn our security posture for AI, in both our products and internal tools.\n\nManage cloud security architecture and guardrails, including data isolation across our multi-tenant platform.\n\nOwn vulnerability management end to end, partnering with Engineering to build security into the development lifecycle.\n\nPartner with our compliance function to support SOC2, PCI, and other audit and regulatory work.\n\nWhat We Need\n6+ years of experience in security, including 2+ years in a leadership role.\n\nHands-on software or security engineering background. You've built and run cloud security, identity and access, and detection systems yourself.\n\nPrior experience working in a regulated industry (financial services, healthcare, payments, etc.).\n\nTrack record of setting security strategy and driving it to execution at an early- or growth-stage company, where you build the playbook yourself.\n\nStrong communicator and collaborator, with a track record of building trust across Engineering, Product, and other teams.\n\nPreferred: strong understanding of how AI/ML systems work and where they introduce risk.\n\nHow We Work\nDecentralization beats control. The best calls get made by the people closest to them, not routed up a chain. You'll set the standards that let the team decide without you in the room.\n\nSpeed beats perfection. You run tight loops, act at 70% on reversible calls and adjust as you learn. Fast loops beat slow ones.\n\nCandor beats comfort. 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