Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

CISO Opportunity At ButterflyMX

ButterflyMX is on a mission to empower people to open and manage doors and gates from a smartphone. Our products are installed in more than 20,000+ multifamily, commercial, gated communities, and student-housing properties worldwide, including properties developed, owned, and managed by the most trusted names in real estate. Our features are designed for developers, owners, property managers, and tenants and our products lower operating costs and improve tenant satisfaction.

Developers and owners no longer need to run building wiring or install in-unit hardware. Property managers can grant building access, revoke permissions, and review entry logs from an online dashboard. Residents can open doors from their smartphones, issue visitor access, and see who is trying to enter the building.

Fantastic people are the key to our success. As a distributed, primarily remote workforce, we're looking for more intelligent, passionate, collaborative, AI-forward, and down-to-earth individuals to join our growing team. We're driven by a shared commitment to excellence and innovation, grounded in our core values : We delight our customers, We take ownership, We are a community of collaborators, We speak up, We think big and do small, and We are tenacious.

Role Overview

As our CISO, you'll lead and scale a small, talented security team into a world-class organization that protects our customers, employees, and partners across cloud, IoT, and enterprise systems. You'll be responsible for shaping our security strategy, implementing practical controls that balance risk and innovation, and ensuring that security enables our growth without slowing us down.

You'll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure leaders to ensure our platforms and connected devices are secure by design. You'll partner closely with our People team to ensure that our business systems and processes are meeting high security standards. You'll partner closely with Sales and Support leaders to build confidence in our security posture with our customers. You'll report to the CTO and engage regularly with the executive team to ensure our strategy aligns with the company's goals, risk appetite, and compliance obligations.

This is both a strategic and hands-on role. You'll set direction, manage budgets, lead audits and certifications, but also dive into architecture reviews, incident response, and vendor risk assessments when needed. We're looking for someone who can move fluidly between the boardroom and the command line. Most importantly, to be successful in this role you'll need to be passionate about building strong, productive relationships across the organization, and about helping people to understand the real world impact of security-related work : the 'why' behind the 'what'.

About You

You're a security leader who's earned your credibility through both technical depth and sound judgment. You thrive in an environment where security must scale without slowing innovation, and you know how to rally people around doing the right thing for the business.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the company's security and privacy strategy
• Scale and mentor the Security team, developing great security team members as the company grows.
• Build and mature the company's security framework, balancing pragmatism and rigor across system security, application security, infrastructure security, and device security.
• Lead security operations and incident response, ensuring the company can rapidly detect, respond to, and recover from threats.
• Oversee compliance programs (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, CPRA) and maintain a continuous improvement mindset beyond checkbox compliance.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to embed security into the SDLC, CI / CD pipelines, and IoT device lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, such as executive leadership, providing actionable metrics and insights into security posture, risk trends, and emerging threats.
• Oversee vendor risk management and ensure robust controls across third-party services and integrations.
• Conduct regular security awareness training and education programs for employees.
• Evaluate and select security technologies and tools to enhance the organization's security posture.
• Build a strong security culture, from awareness and education to clear policies and positive engagement across all teams.
• Optimize the security budget and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance protection, velocity, and business impact.

Requirements