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Glean · Mountain View, CA · On-site

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About Glean

Glean is the Enterprise AI platform connected to your enterprise's data. Find, create, and automate anything. Explore what Glean can do for you! Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

Glean is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead security for Glean as a company and for our core product. Reporting to the CTO, you will set the strategy and operating model across product and platform security, corporate security, detection and response, risk, and compliance, turning that strategy into measurable risk reduction. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Experience building and operating effective security, detection, and incident-response programs, including leading through high-severity incidents and ensuring lessons result in durable improvements
  • Practical expertise in security risk management, governance, compliance, and audit readiness, with the judgment to distinguish control completion from actual risk reduction
  • A track record of partnering with Product and Engineering to ship secure products and embed security in fast-moving development organizations
  • Experience building, leading, and retaining strong multidisciplinary teams, setting priorities, allocating resources, and creating clear accountability across teams
More about this role

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

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