Field CISO

About this role

Our Mission & Values: At Drata, we help companies earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners, and prospects. We’re the proof layer that shows great companies deserve the trust they aim to build.

We live our values every day. Built on Trust means consistency is everything. Act with Integrity by always doing the right thing. Being Customer-Obsessed keeps the people we serve at the center of our work. Competitive Fire drives us to push ourselves harder than anyone else. Diversity brings unique perspectives that lead to better solutions. Automation First ensures we save time and money by making efficiency a priority.

Our Culture & Work Style 🚀

At Drata, we’re not just building software - we’re building a mindset. Everything we do springs from:

- Be a Driver (Owner‑Operator Mentality): Own your work. Improve relentlessly. Deliver results.

- Move at Drata Speed (Precision & Velocity): Fast decisions. Quick learning. Immediate impact.

- Stay Mission-Driven (Customer‑Obsessed): Challenge assumptions. Deliver value. Stay hungry.

If you thrive when you’re empowered, energized, and working with smart, mission-driven people, you’ll feel at home here.

Why Join The Drata Team?

The best way to understand the Driver’s Mindset is to see it in action. We’re an award-winning, mission-driven team of 600+ people worldwide, united by a culture that values trust, speed, and continuous growth.

- See the Speed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QidTdkGwKMY Watch our CEO, Adam Markowitz, discuss the hyper-growth journey, from $0 to $100M ARR in just four years

- Hear the Voice of the Team https://drata.com/about/life-at-drata: Explore our "Life at Drata" page for employee testimonials on our collaborative and the growth opportunities available.

- Experience the Impact https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7044563: See why we are consistently recognized on Fortune's Best Workplaces lists.

- Connect with Us on Socials: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/drata/posts/?feedView=all - follow us for company updates, employee stories, and career news.

Job Summary:

As Drata scales, we want our security and GRC leadership to be able to meet our customers’ needs in more places at once—in strategic customer conversations, on stage at industry events, and in the broader conversations happening across our security and GRC communities. We’re looking for a Field Chief Information Security Officer to join Drata’s Security & GRC organization, reporting directly to our SVP, Security & CISO, to help carry our vision to a wider audience. Your primary mission: be Drata's credible, practitioner-level security and GRC voice in the field.

This role is a senior, remote, U.S.-based security and GRC leadership role, ideally based on the East Coast to cover both the Americas and EMEA regions. As one of the most senior individual contributor roles in Drata's Security & Trust organization, this role shapes how Drata responds to the industry, informs the product experience, and aids in the strategic positioning of Drata’s future to acutely meet industry needs. This position is built for someone who has led security and GRC programs before and is excited to bring that experience directly to our customers, prospects, and industry peers. You’ll work closely with our go-to-market, customer success, and marketing teams, but your foundations are still rooted in technical security and GRC leadership—that is what will make you credible in the room among peers and is critical to the success of this role. Given the nature of our platform, this person will spend as much time in GRC conversations as in traditional security conversations due the complementary nature and inseparability of these functions.

What you’ll do:

- Partner with our amazing Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing teams on our most strategic enterprise and F500/G2000 opportunities—bringing tried-and-true security and GRC expertise into the conversation when customers need it most.

- Lead executive briefings and CISO-to-CISO conversations that build trust and help prospective customers feel confident in their decision.

- Represent Drata at industry conferences, CISO dinners, and regional roundtables across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC regions, building genuine relationships across the security and GRC community.

- Share what you’re hearing in the field through webinars, panels, bylines, and press opportunities that build Drata’s voice and credibility in the security and GRC market.

- Advise our CISO, CMO, CRO, and executive leadership team members directly on emerging regulatory shifts, systemic industry risk, and where Drata's security and GRC strategy needs to head next.

- Provide strategy and direction to company-wide responses to major shifts in our industry, such as new regulatory regimes, major certifications, systemic risk events surfaced by our customers, reaffirming the direction set has a lasting effect on Drata's market position.

- Raise the overall security and GRC bar across Drata and industry-wide through knowledge sharing, internal and external forums, and pattern-setting.

- Equip our sales teams with the security and GRC context and talking points they need to navigate technical conversations with confidence.

- Draw on your own relationships and reputation in the security and GRC community to open doors and build trust for Drata.

- Partner with Marketing and GTM leadership to help plan executive events, speaking engagements, dinners, and roundtables throughout the year.

- Act as a real, ongoing influence on our product roadmap and go-to-market growth strategy — not just relaying field feedback, but helping shape the decisions themselves based on hands on experience corroborated with customer needs..

- Step in on the highest-stakes, least-defined security and GRC questions facing the business—the ones without an existing playbook—and provide the strategic direction to resolve them.

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