Security Program Manager - Toronto, Canada - Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Lightspeed
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Toronto, Canada

1 week ago

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We're looking for a Security Program Manager to join a highly motivated and skilled professional to join our team to be in charge of enhancing our organization's security posture, ensuring effective communication, and promoting a culture of security awareness and compliance.

Lightspeed is a dynamic and innovative organization committed to maintaining the highest standards of security, governance, and risk management.


What you'll be doing:

  • Coordinate and execute a comprehensive security communications strategy, incorporating awareness training programs.
  • Design, deliver, and oversee security awareness training programs for employees at all levels.
  • Coordinate organisationwide securityrelated events, including planning, execution, and postevent analysis, to support awareness and education goals.
  • Craft clear and concise messages tailored to various audiences, ensuring security information is easily understandable, accessible, and engaging through newsletters, intranet, and our other communication channels.
  • Conduct and ensure alignment of security communication and awareness campaigns with the organisation's security objectives and standards.
  • Organize teamwide town hall meetings, steering committees and other communication channels, strengthening communication within the team and the broader organisation to encourage feedback and collaborative security practices.
  • Support risk assessments and contribute to governance, and risk mitigation strategies, through analysis, monitoring and reporting.
  • Assess the effectiveness of security initiatives in promoting awareness and engagement, preparing reports for senior management on progress, successes, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies and initiatives in the security organization, and identify opportunities for improvement.

What you need to bring:

  • Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Communications, or a related field or equivalent industry experience.
  • Familiarity with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, PRINCE2) and/or security frameworks (e.g NIST, ISO/IEC 27001)
  • Experience in developing and executing awareness programs that align with organizational objectives.
  • This includes the ability to assess and incorporate emerging security trends into strategic plans.
  • Proven ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management, technical teams, and nontechnical staff, and effectively communicate complex issues in a clear, concise, and accessible manner.
  • This also encompasses the skill to manage and organize stakeholder events, ensuring alignment between security practices and organizational goals.
  • Capability in leading projects, including planning, execution, and delivery, with a focus on achieving project objectives while enhancing the organization's security posture.
  • This includes strong leadership skills to guide and develop teams towards achieving security awareness and compliance objectives.

Even Better if you have:

  • Understanding of the current cybersecurity threat landscape and the ability to communicate relevant threats and defences to a nontechnical audience.
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent.
  • Strong bias towards accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Familiarity with security technologies and best practices, including cybersecurity defences, intrusion detection systems, and encryption technologies.
What's in it for you?

Come live the Lightspeed experience...

  • Ability to do your job in a truly flexible hybrid environment (3 days/week in office);
  • Genuine career opportunities in a company that's creating new jobs everyday;
  • Work in a team big enough for growth but lean enough to make a real impact.
and enjoy a range of benefits that'll keep you happy, healthy, and (not) hungry:

  • Lightspeed RSU program (we are all owners)
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • Flexible working policy
  • Health insurance
  • Health and wellness benefits
  • Possibility for transit fees to be covered
  • Paid leave assistance for new parents
  • Linkedin learning
  • Volunteer day
... and so much more

Where to from here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you're proud to come to every day.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that.

We were founded in 2005, in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community.

The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.


Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platfo
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