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Director, Cybersecurity

Inari · Cambridge, MA · On-site

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About Inari

Transform customer feedback into your next best product idea. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We are seeking a Director of Cybersecurity to own the strategy, operation, and governance of information security across Inari, ensuring our data, applications, systems, and infrastructure remain appropriately protected as the business and threat landscape evolve.

What they're looking for

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in information security, combining risk management, information security, and IT-related responsibilities
  • Demonstrated success operating and maturing an established cybersecurity function, including metrics-driven continuous improvement, not just initial build
  • Demonstrated success partnering with business functions to deliver security threat analysis and mitigation solutions
  • Experience evaluating and securing AI/ML systems and applications, and understanding of AI-specific risk considerations
  • Experience with software development and product security best practices
  • Experience securing cloud computing and containerized environments
More about this role

Inari is the SEEDesign™ company. We embrace the diversity and complexity of nature in every aspect of our business to drive innovation – to push the boundaries of what is possible. Through our unrivaled technology platform, Inari uses predictive design and advanced multiplex gene editing to develop step-change products. We are taking a nature positive approach to unlock the full potential of seeds that will transform the food system. The results will lead to more productive acres delivering value creation for farmers and a more sustainable future for our planet.

Our success is dependent on great minds, collaborating to generate bright ideas and deliver exceptional outcomes.

We have 200 employees, with research sites in Cambridge, MA (USA) and Ghent (Belgium), as well as a product development site in West Lafayette, IN (USA). We’ve deliberately built a team that brings diversity of thought to all aspects of our business, to generate new ideas, approaches, and ways of operating. And we've intentionally combined experience with potential, bringing agriculture industry experts with the desire to innovate together with bright minds from academia, human therapeutics, software, and...

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