Security Lead

Afresh is on a mission to eliminate food waste and make fresh food accessible to all. Our first A.I.-powered solution optimizes ordering, forecasting, and store operations for fresh food departments in brick-and-mortar grocers. With our Fresh Operating System, regional and national grocery retailers have placed $1.6 billion in produce orders across the US and we’ve helped our partners prevent 34 million pounds of food from going to waste. Working at Afresh represents a one-of-a-kind opportunity to have massive social impact at scale by leveraging uncommonly impactful software – we hope you’ll join us!

As a Security Lead at Afresh, you will play a crucial role in safeguarding our organization’s digital assets and ensuring the security of our systems, processes, and data. This is a leadership position where you will develop and implement effective security strategies, collaborate with various teams across the company, and drive initiatives to protect us from security risks. Your expertise will be essential in identifying potential threats, conducting security assessments, and fostering a culture of security awareness throughout the company. We are looking for someone with a strong track record of implementing security projects, building cross-functional relationships, and ensuring that our security posture remains robust and compliant with industry standards.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop and implement effective security strategies and processes to protect the company from security risks.
• Be a key input into quarterly planning and drive prioritization for security work.
• Lead execution of security projects, breaking down work, and effectively delegating tasks
• Represent the company to customers and communicate effectively
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure integration of security requirements into business processes and projects.
• Conduct regular security assessments and audits, including leading the Type II SOC 2 audits annually.
• Assess potential risks and vulnerabilities, investigate security incidents, and reinforce appropriate measures to mitigate them.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and makes recommendations
• Evangelize and foster a culture of security awareness across the company

Skills And Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Security Engineering or similar
• Experience being a Team Lead across the organization
• Prior experience with Security for Cloud Infrastructure/Kubernetes
• Demonstrated effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, actively fostering a culture of security awareness, and supporting the development of security solutions that impact larger projects.
• Exhibits excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Possesses expert-level knowledge in their specialty field and the security technology stack.
• Expert understanding of industry standards and how they apply to Afresh.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar (preferred)

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About Afresh

Founded in 2017, Afresh is working on the #1 solution to curb climate change: reducing food waste. By combining human insight and transformative technology, we’re helping grocers provide fresher food to customers at more affordable prices.

Afresh sits at an incredible intersection of positive social impact, rocket ship financial growth, and cutting-edge technology. Our best-in-class AI research has been published in top journals including ICML, and we’ve raised over $148 million in funding from investors including former co-CEO of Whole Foods Market Walter Robb and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.

Fresh is the past, present, and future of our food system – the waste we create today will impact our planet for years to come. Join us as we continue to build a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team that embodies our company’s values of proactivity, kindness, candor, and humility.

Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.

Here at Afresh, many of our employees work remotely provided that they reside in one of the following states: AR, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, KY, MA, MI, MT, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OR, PA, TX, WA, WI. However, there may be key roles that will require a candidate/employee to be local to our San Francisco, CA office. In which case this requirement will be included in the job posting details under “Skills and experience” for reference.