Vice President, Security & Information Technology
$240k - $300k USD
Who we are
At CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG), our mission is to give people the power to reach their destination. We started as a small team of developers determined to bring trust and transparency to car shopping. Since then, our history of innovation and go-to-market acceleration has driven industry-leading growth. In fact, we’re the largest and fastest-growing automotive marketplace, and we’ve been profitable for over 15 years.
What we do
The market is evolving, and we are too, moving the entire automotive journey online and guiding our customers through every step. That includes everything from the sale of an old car to the financing, purchase, and delivery of a new one. Today, tens of millions of consumers visit CarGurus.com each month, and ~30,000 dealerships use our products. But they're not the only ones who love CarGurus—our employees do, too. We have a people-first culture that fosters kindness, collaboration, and innovation, and empowers our Gurus with tools to fuel their career growth. Disrupting a trillion-dollar industry requires fresh and diverse perspectives. Come join us for the ride!
Role overview
We are seeking a technical and business leader to lead our Security and IT teams and join our Senior Management Team (SMT), reporting directly to the CTO. This role is responsible for ensuring the security, reliability, and scalability of our systems and infrastructure. The teams under this role solve a variety of challenges, from designing scalable security frameworks to implementing robust IT solutions. Our teams focus on providing a secure environment for engineering and business teams and with our significant AWS footprint, this role provides unique opportunities to drive security maturity and operational excellence across the organization.
What you'll do
- Be an active, collaborative, decisive, strategic voice on the Senior Management Team, driving our security and IT vision and maturity forward while improving the quality of our operations.
- Design, build, and drive the overall strategy, methodology, and roadmaps for processes, systems, tools, and capabilities required to manage our security, compliance, and IT operational excellence across all systems.
- Work closely with functional and business stakeholders to synthesize and provide guidance on security and IT vision and drive adoption.
- Oversee the development and implementation of enterprise-wide security infrastructure strategies to optimize, scale, and improve the reliability of systems across multiple environments.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in security and IT infrastructure, and leverage that knowledge to identify new opportunities and best practices.
- Be responsible for the leadership, management, and growth of senior employees within the organization.
- Lead and manage teams responsible for information security, corporate IT, technology risk management, governance, and compliance initiatives.
What you'll bring
- 15+ years of experience building and leading security and IT teams.
- Experience executing security transformations, including architecture, vision, planning, execution, and change management within the entire Product and Engineering organizations.
- Dynamic leadership and management experience of multi-disciplined technology teams with various priorities.
- A deep understanding and passion for solving complex system and infrastructure security challenges in a constantly innovating environment.
- Past experience as a technical expert in security engineering or IT prior to leadership/management.
- Passion for providing people mentorship and career growth to teams.
- Ability to contribute to and go deep with teams on technical security architecture review of critical infrastructure designs.
- A strong track record of delivering results and the ability to effectively prioritize and manage multiple competing priorities.
- Passion for automation and optimization, always looking for ways to innovate and improve operational frameworks.
- Experience collaborating with security and compliance teams in developing and implementing scalable systems.
- Experience managing teams that develop and deploy infrastructure as code and design and implement cloud architecture patterns.
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Position Pay Range
$240,000—$300,000 USD
Working at CarGurus
We reward our Gurus’ curiosity and passion with best-in-class benefits and compensation, including equity for all employees, both when they start and as they continue to grow with us. Our career development and corporate giving programs, as well as our employee resource groups (ERGs) and communities, help people build connections while making an impact in personally meaningful ways. A flexible hybrid model and robust time off policies encourage work-life balance and individual well-being. Thoughtful perks like daily free lunch, a new car discount, meditation and fitness apps, commuting cost coverage, and more help our people create space for what matters most in their personal and professional lives.
We welcome all
CarGurus strives to be a place to which people can bring the ultimate expression of themselves and their potential—starting with our hiring process. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We foster an inclusive environment that values people for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. That’s why we hope you’ll apply even if you don’t check every box listed in the job description. We also encourage you to tell your recruiter if you require accommodations to participate in our hiring process due to a disability so we can provide the appropriate support. We want to know what only you can bring to CarGurus. #LI-Hybrid