Head of Information Security

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom; fully remote work and flexible working hours are also mentioned.

Salary: £100,000–£120,000 annually, based on London; other locations may vary.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered creator monetisation platform helping creators connect with audiences and earn directly at scale, with expanding payments infrastructure, AI tools, and sensitive-data operations.

What you will do

• Own security governance, access decisions, joiner-mover-leaver processes, policies, and recurring access reviews across the company.
• Approve vendors, tools, and AI applications; maintain the third-party register and conduct due diligence for payment and platform partners.
• Lead the path to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, including gap assessment and tooling selection.
• Own the security risk register, report risks to the executive team, and coordinate responses to security incidents while engineering retains engineering incidents and on-call.
• Set the security roadmap, direct the technical security lead’s priorities, and build the security team as the function grows.
• Run company-wide security awareness covering phishing and safe credential sharing.

Requirements

• Owned security at head-of level with a strong track record.
• Strong governance, access management, and process experience, with enough technical credibility to coordinate work with engineers.
• Ability to push priorities across departments through completion and maintain effective controls without unnecessarily slowing the business.
• Clear communication skills for explaining risk to non-technical teams and executives.
• Comfort with owning security rather than advising on it and building frameworks where none exist.
• Willingness to operate without a large existing team or established security programme.
• Role is focused on policy and governance rather than infrastructure coding and requires holding security priorities across the organisation.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments, fintech, or high-risk platforms.
• Experience delivering SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• AI-forward working style and use of AI tools in the workflow.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct ownership of security operations and governance with a direct line to the executive team.
• Fully remote option, flexible working hours, a London office, and WeWork access.
• Unlimited PTO, travel and office budgets, and a benefits package being expanded with gym memberships and apps.
• Salary reviews every six months.
• Culture focused on innovation, speed, excellence, ownership, transparency, and diverse teams.

Hiring process

• Applications are encouraged even when candidates do not meet every requirement; potential, mindset, and ambition are considered alongside experience.