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As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love. Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.\nTaskrabbit is a hybrid company with employees distributed across the US and EU and a Built In - Best Places to Work (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) continually ranked across multiple national and regional categories. Join us at Taskrabbit, where your work will be meaningful, your ideas valued, and your potential unleashed!\nThis role operates on a hybrid schedule requiring two days of in-office collaboration per week. \nAbout the Role\nReporting to the Infrastructure Director of Engineering, you are a pragmatic security leader who acts as a business enabler rather than a gatekeeper. You thrive in a high-velocity, non-regulated environment where you must define \"what good looks like\" from scratch and drive security progress with a blend of strong planning skills and strong cross-functional partnerships.\nYou are a technical player-coach who manages the \"how\" behind engineering initiatives, providing direct guidance to a lean team which needs to navigate trade-offs between quality, depth, and delivery volume. You are just as comfortable planning core initiatives as you are writing a proposal for security program improvements. You have a proven track record of seamlessly integrating security controls within the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Above all, you are a data-oriented communicator who uses relationship building to hold our security bar to a high standard for our customers and partners.\nWhat You'll Work On:\nLead and develop a team of security engineers, acting as a technical player-coach to manage deliverables, mentorship, and continuous learning. Lead the team through prioritization and tradeoffs to determine which initiatives provide the most meaningful impact.\nIntegrate foundational security tooling and automation across data, infrastructure, and application layers working closely with engineering teams, IT, corporate security, legal and compliance.\nDevelop data-driven security strategies, including OKRs, KPIs, and roadmaps, using clear written communication to advocate for security priorities during cross-functional planning.\n Achieve compliance with security frameworks (e.g. CIS, SOC2, GDPR), designing sustainable controls in partnership with internal teams.\nLead pragmatic incident response efforts, focusing on investigation and resolution while continuously maturing our response plans and threat modeling.\nDevelop and implement security-related AI and machine learning solutions, ensuring safe adoption while mitigating associated risks.\nDrive cultural change through education, acting as a security evangelist to help cross-functional partners understand risk and own security within their respective domains.\nGovern the Security Engineering Program, developing high-quality proposals and recommendations that align security decisions with Taskrabbit’s innovative business goals.\nYour Areas Of Expertise:\n5+ years of experience building and managing security teams in an agile, high-growth environment.\n Proven track record working within copliance frameworks (e.g., developing secure software in a SOC2 or GDPR compliant environment).\nExperience implementing a security framework from scratch is a plus.\nStrong technical \"Player-Coach\" ability, with the comfort level to dive into technical initiatives and provide direct guidance to security engineers.\nExceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a knack for telling the \"story\" of security through formal proposals, strategies, and risk presentations.\nPragmatic Risk Management: Ability to handle moderate risk tolerance by focusing on business impact and customer trust rather than theoretical perfection.\nAnalytical and data-oriented mindset, with experience designing metrics and KPIs that demonstrate the business value of security initiatives.\nExpertise in influence-based leadership, showing a history of driving security maturity in non-regulated industries through relationship building and alignment.\nDeep knowledge of modern AI-assisted secure software development and deployment practices, including cloud security, data security, and integrating security controls within the SDLC with experience leading incident response.\nExperience with security governance for AI/ML systems and a proactive approach to managing the risks inherent in emerging technologies.\nExperience with security tooling implementation: Direct experience implementing or leading the implementation of comprehensive security tooling\nCompensation & Benefits: \nAt Taskrabbit, our approach to compensation is designed to be competitive, transparent, and equitable. Total compensation consists of base pay + bonus + benefits + perks. The base pay range for this position is $155,000 - $207,000. This range is representative of base pay only, and does not include any other total cash compensation amounts, such as company bonus or benefits. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above and will be determined by factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, qualifications, geography, and level.\nYou’ll love working here because:\nTaskrabbit is a Hybrid Company. We value flexibility and choice but also stay committed to regular in-person connection.\nThe People. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!\nThe Diverse Culture. We believe that we make better decisions when our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Women make up half of our leadership team and our diversity representation is above that of the tech industry average.\nThe Perks. Taskrabbit offers our employees with employer-paid health insurance and a 401k match with immediate vesting for our US based employees. We offer all of our global employees generous and flexible time off with 2 company-wide closure weeks, Taskrabbit product stipends, wellness + productivity + education stipends, IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and more. Benefits vary by country of employment. \nTaskrabbit’s commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:\nAn Active Commitment to Equity within our Company and Platform. We are an inclusive community where all who share our mission and values belong. Our diverse team represents the communities we serve, breaking down systemic barriers, and transforming lives- one action at a time.\nTaskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. 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