Security & Compliance Lead (AI)

Location: Sydney, Australia; in person four days a week at the Surry Hills HQ

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered customer intelligence platform that unifies feedback from sales calls, support tickets, research, and other customer touchpoints.

What you will do

• Own the security risk function, including risk registers, product and feature assessments, mitigation tracking, and third-party risk management.
• Run SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/IEC 42001 certification and surveillance cycles, including control design, evidence collection, internal audits, and auditor relationships.
• Support enterprise deals through security questionnaires, customer trust reviews, due diligence, and collaboration with sales and legal.
• Build tooling to automate evidence collection, monitor control drift, and report security posture continuously.
• Develop hands-on security engineering capabilities across detection and response, AWS cloud security posture, and vulnerability management.
• Define AI governance for AI systems, model providers, and agentic features; contribute to incident response and security culture development.

Requirements

• Deep experience running SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 compliance programmes in a software business.
• Technical credibility with engineers on cloud architecture and security controls.
• Enterprise experience with customer procurement teams, security reviewers, questionnaires, and due diligence.
• Interest in building automation and developing deeper hands-on security engineering skills.
• Pragmatic, adaptable, quality-focused, and able to communicate risk and effort clearly to engineers, executives, and customer CISOs.
• Availability to work in person four days per week from the Sydney office is required.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 42001 and emerging AI assurance frameworks.
• Experience with AWS security tooling such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, Inspector, and Detective.
• Exposure to EKS, TypeScript, Pulumi, or Terraform.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual contributor role reporting to engineering leadership in an in-person-first Sydney engineering environment.
• Competitive base salary and equity options.
• $3,000 learning and development allowance or up to $1,000 in wellness benefits.
• Four weeks of accrued leave, floating public holidays, and additional Kit Kat days.
• Up to four weeks of work from anywhere per year, plus parental leave and return-to-work support.
• Additional four weeks of leave after four years and comprehensive US health, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits where applicable.